Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-08-25
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Chicago Il the silver consension whereof
hut on SECOND thought, Mt us change
the venue The state building b pasely
for headquarters and sociahility and con-
tains no exhibit except some minerals and
mineral waters. wisconsin, building.
Just across the avenue. b much Ike that
Of her neighbo-, Michigan. that b spacious
and hosrelike, for headquarters and socia-
biiity only. The paElors are large aud
cool and delightful places Of rest, and the
piano often gives out sweet music under
the fingers Of Wisconsin ladies' The
MANY wall adornments are paintings,
tanessry and other delicate work by nafive
artists, and the states typical badger y
well represented in many places. Wiscon-
sins day is Sept. 9, but no special pro
gramme is yet made out.
None of the territories have done much
in the way Of arranging for set day. ex-
cent possibly Utah, and her day, Sept. 9. is
necessarily the same as that Of California,
as il was on Sept Q, $3.50, that President
Fillmore signed all those compromise bills
which made California state and fixed
the status and boundaries of the territer-
les. Utah had applied for admission as a
state and has since applied many a time
and oft, but though her population eN-
eeeds that of three adjacent states com
blned she is still knocking in vain Her
mineral exhibit, however. is splendid as
are those OF all the mining regions and
when want TO be entertained without eff
fort 90 to ono Of their paviliens in the
Mines building and sit down. The miner
Al cabin from Sierra county, n. NJ, is well
worth seeing as indeed are all the state
and territorial pavilions. New Mexieo's
day Is Sept TO- but there Is no special pro
gralnme yet. The same may be said of
Montaua's day, Sept. 20; Nevada's, Sept.
IS, and North Dakota's, Oct. 10. The Off
cial programme says that Ctah's day Is
the anniversary of that % which the Nor
mon pioneers entered Salt Lake valley.
which only shows that officials may be is-
norant as well as other people. Brigham
Young and i42 other pioneers first entered
the valley on July "a, 1917, as have heard
him say many a time.
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Speaking of the mining regions and the
many curiosities in this building, there is
one Set which have not yet made up my
mind to accept-that is, the story told
about them. 1t is claimed that they are
the tools used by the Greeks 5000 years
ago at Laurium. That was about GOO
years before Athens amounted to much.
Alongside of them are some of the tools
used today and if both are genuine l must
say that the Greeks are very unprogres-
sive, for the difference as to convenience Is
not much. The exhibitor says the chief
difference Is that the miners of today use
baskets instead Of leather bags to carry
the ores to the surface. But the ancient
shafts and tunnels are still used and in
them they have found relics which, sothey
say, are of the age of Pericles Charts,
drawings and photographs help to make
His exhibit very good history Of Greek
mining Possibly the record as interpreted
Is correct, for Jobs Poem on Wisdom
(Chap, xxvii-the new translation is
great improvement describes silver
mining very much as it is carried on in
Mexico today.
Other great curiosities and novelties in
this building are: The Michigan pavilion,
the artistic column of New South Wales,
the model stamp mill from the Michigan
copper mines, the relief map showing the
workings in Iron Mountain, Mo, Ken
tucky's reproduction of a chamber in the
Mammoth cave, the great block of coal
from Washington, the diamonds in the
rough from South Africa guarded by
Zulus. the Statue of Liberty in salt, jocu-
larly known AS Lots Wife" and the ia
nous "Silyer Queen" from Colorado, sill
yer statue of seventeen year old girl, As
Colorado has been state for seventeen
years, Montana's reproduction in silver
Of Ada Rehan-of course everybody has
read about it, for they made sure of pub
iicity by getting up a row about it,