Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1885-05-29
EXPOSITION LETTER.
From our regular Co respondent. |


bama and Veterans Day.
Alabama Is one of the most pros
porous States in the South, and one
which is very rich in mineral depos-
its, aud has made rapid strides IN the
establishment of manufacturing in
dustries. A large amount Of North
ern capital has been invested during
the past few years. Her "dayh was
one, therefore, that attracted national
attention, aud many thousands of the
States citizens were present. The
ceremonies were held under the live
oaks, cut in the open air, and eloquent
addresses were delivered. Alabami-
ans can we'll feel proud Of the success
of their day. Early Monday morning
the .'tramp, tramp" Of the old soldiers
might b. heard in all directions, and
1T would have done the henrt OF all
true American people good to have
heard old grey veterans" cheer the
.'blue veterans and vice versa. 1t
was grand reunion of the Blue and
the Grey. The boys who stood up
and faced each Others muskets now
shook hands and cheered each other.
Many old army sayings were repeated
and frequent offers to exchange to-
hacco for coffee were heard. The
Veterans Day generated much good
feeling which will penetrate to all
parts Of the Union.
Last Thursday was oolored educa-
tional day, and il any person enter
tains the idea that the coored race
has not made any advance in the pust
twenty-five years your correspondent
only wishes he could have been with
him on the day mentioned and have
witnessed about 1000 colored chill
girls and boys, young ladies
and men accompanied by their
friends and parents, as they visited
the different departments Of the Ex-
position aud atterward have heard
them sing and speak. The dress, be-
hayior and manners Of the colored
race as seen on Thursday would be a
credit to any race or nationality OF
people.
For years men of an inventive turn
OF mind have attempted to get up q
patent farm or yard gate, and many
different designs aud mechanical in
yentions some simple and some COM
piicated have been the result. " bile
number Of gates are shown here,
none, IN the Judgment OF your COR
respondent, is as simple ana durable
rs the "William r. White Patent
Gate. exhibited by the Government.
Mr.. White, the patentee, who lives at
Neoga, H., having lost his farm by
the foreclosure of mortgage, set his
wits TO work TO earn sufficient money
to get it back again, and the result of
his study and experiments was 70 get
up gate, which he patented July 81,
1888, which is made without NOR
tlse, rope, tenon, spring, wire or hinge,
which can be opened by one hand
from wagons, buggies and loads OF
hay, and when closed makes It's own
lock or fastening, part OF the gate
being the lock. Sufficient to say Mr..
White owns his old farm again and
has about $50, 800 cash in bank aad is
daily selling from $500 TO $1,000
worth OF farm and county rights.
Among the different exhibits from
those sections OF the West and North
which seem To be making the great
est effort to secure emigration that of
Dakota Territory attracts widespread
interest and attention. That one OF
the Territories should make an exhibit
second to no State in the Union is a
fact of itself calculated to excite sur
prise and command admiration. The
sight OF Dakota's ptoad pyramid of
cereals, embracing all the products of
that climate, naturally leads to an in
yestigatlon of her resources and op-
portunlties. 1t is found that Dakota
took the first premium on wheat, and
that she raised 30,000,000 bushels of
it in 1854. Can they raise corn in
Dakota: The figures prove the corn
used in the exhibit to be genuine Da-
kota ears, the crop of last year being
100000 bushels. And the "free
homes of Dakota, where are they.
In the Territory there yet remains
many millions of acres of vacant land
that may be entered as Government