The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-10

secre prices OF inverted jars Il
wlteh to display grain. Quar-
is, $3.50 per doz.; one-half gallol
Ears. 81 per doz. We would sug
gest that not more than a peck o
each kind of grain be sent, anC
that they be placed in the inverted
sample jars upon arrival here.
DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURE.
General Manager, Prof. 7. V
Munsorl, Grayson County.-Grapes
neetarines, apricots,prunes, plums
peaches, apples, pears, figs, straw
berries, gooseberries, currapts
huckleberries, and all other Der.
ries; oranges, lemons, lines, ban
snas, evaporated fruits, CONNER
eial canned fruit, Texas manufac-
tured fruit packages, walnuts,pecar
nuts, pea nuts, and nuts of all
kinds; flowers of all kinds. The
fruits should be prepared and sent
in for exhibit, as per instructions
given in this circular, except or
anges, lemons, etc, which should
be carefully selected and packed
in the best possible manner, to be
arranged here. Preserves, manu-
featured from fruits, should also
be sent in glass jars.
DEPARTMENT OF BUILDING STONE
AND TIMBER.
General Manager, Maj. W. C.
Dodson, Waco, McLennan County.
Specimens of all kinds of timber,
stone, rock, limestone, clay, and
material for cement
MODE OF EXHIBIT.
Cut all timber which is of medi-
um weight in three feet lengths,
extra thick or heavy timber in
eighteen inch lengths; polish one
end and leave one side to show
the grain and capacity for finish.
With specimens Of the timber NAV
be shown specimens of the imple-
ments or instruments, if made in
Texas, for the manufacture of
which it is suitable. All stone
should be sent IL u inch cubes,
and part in rough blocks; the
cubes polished one end and side,
hammer dressed one side, balance
rough. Lime should be shown
raw, buried and Stacked, mixed
ior building and hardened. Clay
should be shown III jars, with brick
made therefrom, raw and burned.
Cement should be shown with its
constituents, in powder and in
rock.
4 handsome fountain, surround
ed with rustic stone work, is being
in the center of the build
ing, and the Spring Palace re-
quests all counties desiring SO to
do, to send rough building stone
Of different varieties, not larger
than u inch cubes, upon some
portion of which is engraved, in
conspicuous letters, the name of
the county-for use around the
fountain. These should be sent in
addition to specimens for the regu-
lar exhibit
DEPARTMENT OF MINERALS.
General Manager, DR.. William
DeRyee, Corpus Christi, Nueces
County Gold, silver, iron, cop
der, TN and lead ores; feldspar, as
bestos, asphaltum; coal; gypsum,
salt, soda, sulphur, mineral waters;
kaolin; Autograph stone; sand for
glass making, soap stone, soil of
all kinds; petroleum, crude and re-
fined; fossils, Indian and other
relics.
MODE OF EXHIBIT.
Ores should be exhibited, where
practicable, in quantity, say not
less than 100 pounds of one kind,
and may be accompanied with
specimens Of articles made from
them; coal also in quantity, with
analysis if coking coal, with
sample Of coke made from it; gyp-
sum, II rock, in powder, plaster of
paris; salt, in rock, some dressed
IN cubes, some rough blocks, eyap-
GRATED salt, salt IN grain, and in
block; kaolin, crude and porcelain
made from it.
DEPARTMENT OF LIVE STOCK PRO
DUCTS.
General Manager. Col G. b.
Pickett, Decater, Wise County,
Wool of sheep and goats, dressed
hides of sheep, goats, iayalines
and other animals; dressed horns
and hoofs.
PRIZES.
Prizes viii be given the coun-
ties upon exhibits within the Pal
ace, consisting of handsome me-
dals, and the awarding of same
viii be made upon decisions Of
judges from states other than
Texas. Details of prizes and