The Nevada picayune., 1885-04-09
0ur Exposition Letter
From our Regular Correspondent.

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 No men should derive greater benefit from personal study of this exhibition, than the agricultural class. Probable as much as two- thirds of the machinery exhibit in cluding implements, arc directly devoted to the various operations of the farm, saying nothing of the many useful helps for the house keeper asad her work. There are great blocks of space occupied wholly with blows cultivators planters, reapers, threshers, and farm mills, shelters, grinders and feed preparators, all more or less useful in the multiform labors of the farm. There is recently pat. ented potatoe planter, which take s the entire tuber, cuts it into suita- ble sizes and plants eight acres per day, dropping and covering the seeds, without any other aid than horse and his driver, and it's in. ventar claims that it will more than repay it's cost in one season's saving of time and labor, and oi corn and wheat machinery there is 80 much and such vari,ty as would seem to almost make the labor ol the husbandma luxury instead of drudgery.
 In hepatent office exhibit taken in comparison with the more modern devices exhibited outside one can see the wonderful strides that have been made,. not only in the improved farm, but in all other classes of machinery. There is seen the original model of the reap. ing machine, quaint and odd in construction and appearance, but which finally revolutionised wheat culture, and without which it would seem impossible now to supply the world with bread. Here also the cotton planter may see the model of the original cotton gin, which led to the development of this great in. dustry, and is believed by some people, curious in such specula. tions, to have exercised no little influence in shaping political and social questions, affecting the country. This original gin was patched by Eli Whitney, March II, l79i, nearly a century ago, and was the inventor of his: leisure hours while engaged as school. teacher in the South. Compared with the many improvements now exhibited in gins of the present day, it is much in the category as the old wooden mould board of an. tiquity. But if there had been nc Whitney, there would have been no Pratt, with his rapid manipulator as without a Robt. Fulton with hls slow awkward boat, there would have been no palace steamers, blowing river, lake and ocean. How little do the dusy rushing throng think Oftheir obligations to the patient, anxious pioneers of art and invention! It is Ofinterest to note here, that fire destroyed the patent office Dec. %, eS36, when 6,0OO models were burned; another similar disaster Sept. 24, 1877, destroyed S7,OOO models on which letters had been granted and 27,OO0 models of applications pend. ing. The total ofmodels lost foots up to 121 900, and their are now in the office 14S ,50O models, occu- pying a space of 63,5OS superficial feet, striking evidence of the ac- tivity of the American brain.
 Two large excursion parties from Boston, have at different times been here. They left the Hub and proceeded straight to St. Louis, where they chartered one of the Anchor Lines magnificent boats, came down the father of wa. ters to New Orleans, stayed one week and lived on there boat. Few people appreciate the fact that such magnificent line of steamers as the Anchor Line now ply on the muddy Mississippi.
 The states are vieing with each other not only in the extent and magnificence of exhibit, but other wise attracting public attention to their respective merits. Hon. Robt. w. Furnas, of Nebraska, commissioner for his state, not sat. isfied with making one of the great, est exhibits on the grounds, has called tO his aid the art nraseva-