Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-09-01

None of the territories have done much
in the way Of arranging for n set day, en-
cept possibly Utah, and her day, Sept. 9, is
necessarily the same as that of California,
as it was on Sept. 9, 1850, that President
Fillmore signed all those compromise bills
which made California a state and fixed
the status and boundaries of the territor-
les. Utah had applied for admission as a
state and has since applied many a time
and oft, but though her population ex-
ceeds that of three adjacent states COM
bined she is still knocking in vain. Her
mineral exhibit, however, is splendid as
are those of all the mining regions and
when l want to be entertained without eff
fort l go to one of their pavilions in the
Mines building and sit down. The miner
al cabin from Sierra county, n. NJ, is we'll
worth seeing as indeed are all the state
and territorial pavilions. New Mexico's
day is Sept. 16, but there is no special pro-
gramme yet. The same may be said Of
Montana's day, Sept. 20; Nevada's, Sept.
IS, and North Dakota's, Oct. 10. The Off
cial programme says that Utah's day is
the anniversary of that on which the Nor
mon pioneers entered Salt Lake valley,
which only shows that officials may be ig-
norant as we'll as other people. Brigham
Young and 142 other pioneers first entered
the valley on July "a, 1s47, as I 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
me set which 1 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 eco
years before Athens amounted to much.
Alongside Of them are some of the tools
used today and if both are genuine 1 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 III
them they have found relics which, SO they
say, are of the age of Pericles. Charts,
drawings and photographs help to make
this exhibit a very good history of Greek
mining. Possibly the record as interpreted
is correct, for Jobs "Pocm on Wisdom'
(Chap. xxvii-the new translation is a
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
Zulls, the Statue of Liberty in salt, jocu-
larly known as 'Lot's Wife, and the ia
nous 'Silver Queen" from Colorado, a sill
yer statue OF q seventeen year old girl, us
Colorado has been a 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
Lefty by getting up q row about it.
T TT REAnYr