The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-06-02
WORLDS FAIR.
What May be Seen inl Some of the Build
ings-The Crystal Gave, Products of
the Mines and Forest-Leather
and Shoes.

hibit which is OF special interest to
Dakotans. AS you enter the central
court, an immense pyramid or rather
mountain, covered with shrubbery and
flowers rises before you. Under this Is
the "Crystal Cave" an exact repre-
sentation of the natural wonder by that
name in the Black Hills OF South
Dakota. This cave has been explored to
a length OF Sc miles in its several wind
ings, but the end has not yet been found.
It contains beautiful rooms, grottoes,
lakes and domes, all glistening with the
most magnificent specimens OF crystals,
~stalactites and stalagmites.
The Mines and mining building which
covers an area of TOO by $50 feet, and
cost over a quarter Of a million dollars,
contains many magnificent exhibits,
states and nations vie with each other
in an effort to expose the bowels of the
earth. Germany shows up largely with
prussic Of potassia, copperas and zinc
ores. Pennsylvania, a reedle OF coal IL
feet square and SO feet high, South Da-
kota in gold, silver, tin, lead, zinc and
mica, California the same, Montana gold
silver, copper and ~sapphires, Arizona in
copper and petrifed woods. Many OF
the southwestern states and territories
had fine exhibits of petrified trees. But
in the scope of her mineral display, as In
nearly all other departments Of national
productions, New South Wales, Of
Australia, carries off the palm. 1t must
be said, however, in respect to all our
state exhibits that they are perfectly
dazzling in their variety, size and
beauty of.the individual displays.
Rather a queer exhibit ia to be found
in the hall for leather. Here are to be
found examples of tanned leather from
the new nations which understand the
t tanning process, but in these are to be
found every conceivable kind of leather
from the alligator skin to the kid. All
%colors, grains, weights and forms
Samples OF the tanning barks and
woods are also given, and then the fin.
ished products in the belt, shoe OF
saddle. Along the entire length of one
side of the building are ranged specimens
: of the different kinds of foot veal
used by all people OF the earth, and il
is safe to say that many OF them are
much more absurd IN make and shape
! than the ridiculously unnatural ones
worn by the American people. BY the
samples given, the study of foot geal
: must be much more interesting and in
: tricate than the study OF ethnology.
Next to the leather building is tn,
Forestry hall. And here let mi prefac'
my remarks on the exhibits of this hal
, with the general statement that out
; side OF the 'staff' which forms the onte
coating of nearly every building on thu
exposition grounds, there is nothing q
common as the exhibition of the differ
emit varieties OF wood in the manufacture,
. and display OF articles on the ground
Ii it is the flooring or castings of thei
{ state buildings, the erection Of booth
to contain the displays, the wood uset
in the manufacture OF their mechanical
or artistic productions, the point is al
ways made to make it OF their own par
/ ticular timber and to use it with q view
to displaying this fact. South Dakot
is an exception. She didn't have WOO,
and hired her furniture and instead o
''staff" used Yankton cement on th,
5 outside of her building, which gives
very pleasing variety.
! But to return to the forestry building
The exhibits here from every state il
the union and from every country in th
world are really fine. Most states hav
. large and small specimens Of all kind
. of timber grown within their RESPECTIVE
borders, and all states or countries hav'
specimens OF their best woods for manu-
/ featuring and art purposes. The sam
or specimen usually shows the rough an
y the polish Of each kind OF wood. Their
are many enormous planks of the fine
cabinet timbers and frequently section
Of the whole tree from seven to thirt
. feet are rolled in. New South Vale
= again excels, though the state of Wash
ington has about seventy varieties
Some of the booths formed by thes
different polished woods are perfectl
grand. Ohio has the most complete. an
perfect exhibit, AZ far az it goes, in th
hall, it shows the flower, fruit or nul
! leaf, bark, wood in rough and in polisi
If OF every individual specimen Of timbe
,e it exhibits, all in one panel. N.
81 Horses and mules to trade for breal
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