Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-12-29

ENTRANCE TO CALIFORNIA lining DEPART
MENT.
ducing state in the Union, q claim which
she evidently does not intend to abandon
even while doing her best to establish her
pre-eminence in fruit and grain raising and
manufactures. Some day perhaps the world
will open its eyes to the fact that California
is altogether and in all things the greatest
country on the globe. Her people awoke
to it long g and are never tired of assert
ing it.
The mining der rtment has been given
the eastern end of the Mechanic Arts
building in which TO make its display. The
main entrance to the exhibit and one of
its most attractive features will be the
grand arch and facade of onyx, marble and
other stones which was such a notable fea-
ture of California's exhibit at Chicago. The
arch has AZ extreme height of 90 feet and a
base line 81 feet long. 1t will be supple
mented by a parapet taking up 673 linear
feet, inclosing the entire exhibit. This
parapet, composed of marble, onyx, terra
Gotta tiles and decorative building stones,
will give a splendid opportunity for a conn.,
prehensive display of all the mineral prod
ucts of the state applicable to building
ana decorative purposes.
The mining display in the Mechanic Arts
building will undoubtedly be one of the
best n most complete ever made. 1t will
contain many attractive features besides
those already mentioned, including all
sorts of mining machinery and a big quartz
mill in operation. But it will by no means
comprise all of mining that is to be shown
at the Sunset City, for among the conces-
sions which have been granted is one for a
Colorado gold mine similar to that which
attracted SO much attention at the Column
bian fair. 1t will be located on the ground,
the natural formation of which will permit
the construction of an entrance to what
would be a 1000 foot level, and within it
all the workings of a mine will be shown
in detail.
Then there will be the typical mining
camp Of the days of 1S49, which will undoubt-
cdly be n of the most interesting, attrac-
tive and instructive concessions at the expo
sition. In the center of the camp will be a
street $50 feet long, and o n either side the old
dilapidated shanties that did service in the
days of gold as hotels, saloons, gambling
houses, theaters and. newspaper offices. The
saloon will be fitted up as saloons were
when patrons were just as likely to slfoot
the barkeeper as to take Il drink, but no i'll
toxicating liquors will be sold. The post
office will be rs primitive as postoffices were
when men got no letters, and the printing
office will be rude and rough, though the
paper will have contributions from men
who ave won fame with pen and ink.
The gambling house will be realistic.
An expert gambler will be there to deal
faro, and every visitor who wishes will be
-Ssvov, -, ~ ,>1.,~, ~~rs,>, kl~1 go T1,n
chips will cost the visitor nc money anu
will not be cashed at the end of the deal,
but otherwise everything will be as it was
in the square game'' of the days of old,
and the visitor will have the SANE oppor-
tunity to discover, as many an old gold
digger did, that faro is in reality robbery
under the guise of a game of chance.
| One of the shanties will be barber shop,
! where the customer may have his whiskers
either shaved or shot off as the inclination
ably be the chief attraction of the camp,
will be the theater. Some of the old time
; actors and actresses will give a new genera
ton a sample of the performances which
amused their grandfathers, with all the
Anticipated properties and primitive para
p%hernalia, including the candle footlights.
\ oiS SlNA VI ~ tSaip 80 w sAA
!, village, with real Indians, like those who
used to beg, buy or steal tirewater from the
miners, frequently giving hot lead in ex-
| change. Near at hand u graveyard will be
; seen, or at least the mounds of 4 graveyard
; and the headboards covered with quaint
inscriptions. The realism will not be car
ried fur enough to include the victims of
! the deadly bowie, the chance six shooter
| and the unerrinp whisky. and though there
will be an occasional lynching in the camp,
as in the good old times, the victims will
not be actually buried there.
Some of the houses in the camp will be of
| historic interest. for they will be the actual
cabins of men who made fabulous fortunes
| in the mines. The huts Of Senators Per
kins and Jones, John Mackay and Others
will be set up just rs they were when the
millionaire miners left them, SO that the
wandering and wondering tenderfoot from
the effete east may have a better apprcciar
ton Of how great oaks from little acorns
| grow.