The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-05-27
Our Exposition Letter.
LFrom our regnlnr enrrespondonL. !
Nrw On1rANs. IL. Mn 2l. 18s5.

NEW OlLEANSt La, May ~, 1883.
The great Exposition is drawing to
close, and exhibitors, with all others who
have been closely connected with it for
months, will be glad whom The curtain is
rung down. AS q financial failure both to
the association and exhibitors, this enter
prise must be awarded the grand medal
over all its predecessors, although it's im-
portance and grandeur have deserved
better fate. But while government and
exhibitors, and many others, will have de-
rived no immediate returns from IT, the for
mer will have been strengthened in the af-
| fections Of all good citizens both byrenson
Of its splendid exhibits and and Of its gen
erous iberality in supporting tho fair, COM
ing to its relief, especially, when, but for
the second appropriation, there would have |
been fatal collapse and failure altogether |
the latter or exhibitors, will have so adver- |
tised their products as to reasonably expect |
future returns, and the whole country will |
be benefited by the impetuous given to |
southern development and industries.
Several causes have led to the financial
failure alluded to. In the first place the
location is remote from the populous centers
Of the country, which together with the
severity Of the past winter in the North,
and the general business stagnatiou, kept
many people at home, either because uu-
able to assume the expense, or 10th to risk
the discomforts necessarily attending such
a distant journey. Then the Exposition
was opened before it was nearly complete,
and thousands coming, were compelled to
go home without having seen the show.
This exaspernted them, and their uufavor-
able reports deferred other thousands from
making the visit, and as a matter Of fact it
was not until some time in February that
the fair was considered finished, tho Art
Gallery being then only thrown open to
the public. But perhaps the one single
thing that operated most disnstrously
against the Exposition, was the utter lack
of rapid and comfortable transportation to
and from the grounds People were crowd
ed and jammed into one-mule street cars,
thousands daily being compelled to stand
up during a slow trip Of five or six miles,
the roadways being often Llockaded for
hours by mired wagons or carts, while it
often happened that thousands were delay
cd for hours before they could get into the
cars at all. This one fact and the others
mentioned doubtless kept as many as half q
million people from making visit to the
Exhibition, which in itself was worthy OF
all the good things said of it, We wer,
promised steam car transportation at al
early day the city council promptly grant
ed the right-of-way, the city papers an
- nounced, with great flourish, that O steam
line would be ready, but for some inscru
table reason it has never been built, prob
ably owing to street-car line corporation in
huence, with which the people of this city
are cursed. There is some talk of reopen
ing the fair next autumn, but unless trans
portation to and from the grounds, bette
than abominable one-mule cars, be provid
ed, worse failure would follow, as peopl,
will not suffer themselves to be imposed
upon the second time.
There are none that surpnss, and but few
that equal Oregons exhibit as representa-,
the developed interest Of that State, and
careful study of the quality of each brancl
Of the exhibit with a careful comparison
leads person to think that there is SOM
truth in the theory that the ancient gardei
of Eden was located in what is now tn
Pacific Ocean, and near tho shores of tn
land were rolls the Oregon" Surely ''nqt
ures choicest blessing the soil has endowed
or the magnificent display now on exhibito
could not have been produced. The wheo
, is remarkable. Some of it stands fee
high. E. W. Allen, the commissioner, il
formed me that one sample Of this graf
= averaged 70 bushels to the acre. Oats, ~
T and barley are equally as luxuriant an
. are produced without the assistance of irr
cation. 1--WE have climate uuoquale
0 upon the globe for production of cereals
steady rains at intervals about the perio
. that the grain is swelling, fills out the hea
!. and produces large plump berries similr
= 70 lAebe you beb utloIt 4Ou1 hul Llhtb on
Z. average statistics to figures that are astor
ishing and cannot be equaed anywhere u
!" on the globe" remarked Mr.. Allen. Eve
at this late day the fruit exhibit is goo
% which is proof that the Oregon fruit is
q good keeper. The present display con
F. prises hne pears, apples, prunes plum
y cherries, strawberries, goosoboTies, Gu
R. rants, etc., Of very fine appearance al
r. which have taken medals and premium
over all in which they have come in conte
with 1t must be admitted beyond
shadow Of a doubt that Oregon has t
g. largest and best potatoes. The difTere
grades Of wool, rs grown in the State,
- the clip of which last year was 10000, o
= pounds, displayed in an attractive maunD
and blankets manufactured from the sal
wool, and which are superior to any
here to be found The timber of the Sta
10 represented by some nice specimens
polished wood used in the munuf cturi
of furniture, and the numbering int