Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1885-05-05
EXPOSITION LETTER.
lFrom cur regular Co respondent
NEW ORLEANS, La, April %, 1885,

sition, two notably in the interest OF
water--one to encourage its use for
drinking purposes, and the other its
use for navigation purposes. The
latter, the reported proceedings OF
which have long since reached your
readers, was attended by many hun
dreds Of delegates from all sections of
the Mississippi Valley, including many
distinguished friends of cheaper trans
portation, who were unanimous in
their demand that congress give some
-more attention to natures channels
and less TO the interests of subsidized
corporations, opposed to such chan
nels. Capt. Eads' and both the jetty
and levee system, and the Hennepin
canal, were enthusiastically endorsed.
The day following the adjournment
of that convention, the delegates
were taken on an excursion down to
the Gulf, affording them, including
your correspondent, an opportunity
of viewing the scenery below the city.
Great sugar plantations line either
shore lying below high water mark,
and generally protected by levees;
the clusters of cottages, neat and
comfortable, on every plantation, for
the use of the employees, the fine res
licences of the owners, machinery, etc.
were all objects of intereet to the
avisiting statesmen" Arriving at the
jetties they were inspected, and the
thirty feet deep channel, enabling any
vessel to safely enter and depart, ef-
fectually vindicates Capt. Eads and
silences his enemies. The visitors
were taken out into the Gulf short
distance, and rocked on the bosom of
the deep, in small tugs, when again
boarding the steamer, and watching
from her lofty decks the passing ships
fading away below the cloudlined ho-
rizon the dying day sprinkling his
farewell kisses over the dark blue
waters, the voyagers sailed back to
the Crescent city, charmed with the
days enjoyments and the boundless
hospitality of their New Orleans en-
tertaIners.
A few days ago was New Orleans
day at the Exposition, when business
in the city was largely suspended, and
many thousands of the city people
visiting the great Fair, including
(nearly as they could be counted),
about twenty thousand school chill
dren; more or less, who were wild
with delight at the many wonderful
things they saw, and crowded the
aisles of the vast buildings; it was
great pleasure to watch them and
witness their establishment and hear
their ordinations and childish COM
ments. About two hours were con-
sumed in the morning getting them
through the gates into the grounds,
some OF them in their eagerness and
'nnpatience jumping over the railing
At the entrances. What treat it
would be for all the children of the
country could they be permitted to
inspect the exhibits and objects of
interest! But that is impossible.
One word more about the matchless
ana wonderful exhibit and country of
Arizona, in closing.
Having been invited to spend day
an Arizona, | must leave the water
aud take the mineral awhile Have
you seen the magnificent exhibit of
Arizona? is one of the most common
enquiries to be heard daily at the Ex-
position, aud trul y this marvellous re-
gion presents to the world unmistak.
able evidences of wealth so unlimited
and resources so vast, as to hold the
visitor spellbound with amazement
and wo1der. Upon entering the
space from the east, the scene is at
once grand and imposing. Handsome
pyramids and hundreds of neat piles
of copper, silver and gold ores, com
frislng every variety of color and
shade--from the rich velvety green
of the malachite TO the most delicate
blue OF the bromide and the frosted
white OF the native silver. Towering
IN silent grandeur is huge specimen
from the Copper Queen mine, weigh
ing $500 pounds, . feet in height and
nssaying so per cent. copper. Ten
thousand dollars worth of native sill |
yer in every fantastic shape, repre-.
SCENTS the great Silver King mine,
which has paid Sl,5OO.O0O i'm divid- |