The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-19
WORLDS FAIR DISPLAY.
Utah's Mineral Exhibit May Go to the
University.
President Chambers Views on the BE
suits of the Recent Elections-The
Outlook for silver.

After an absence in Chicago of nearly
a month, President R. c. Chambers,
of the Utah Worlds fair commission,
accompanied by Mrs. Chambers and
his neices the Misses Bollinger, of San
Francisco, returned yesterday morn
ing, five hours late the Union Pacific
overland having been delayed by q de-
fective engine.
The gentleman has been in Chicago
attending the closing days of The expo
sition, and was present at The official
breaking up. He was found last night
by a Herald man at the knutsford,
where the party is making its head
quarters.
I'VE left Chicago on Wednesday
night said Mr.. Chambers, and
reached Salt Lake this morning. The
great fair has closed, and all that now
remains is to move away the exhibits,
tear down the buildings and cart off
the materials which now constitute the
gigantic structures. When we left,
railroad tracks had been laid 70 the
different government buildings, and the
work of loading exhibits was IN full
swing at the manufactures. liberal
arts, machinery. electricity and mining
buildings. The foreign exhibitors in
the liberal arts building were not pack
ing their exhibits as rapidly as We're
the United States exhibitors, for the
reason that they We're trying to sell
the articles which they have had on
exhibition rather than pack them and
send them home Some of the exhibits
were being held, however, for trans
poTtation To the California AIidwinter
fair In cases where sales we're made
the goods were subjected to an imposi-
ton OF regular custom duties as though
they were being originally imported
for sale.
THE effects in the Utah building
were nearly all packed ready for ship
ment to Utah. as was also the Utah
exhibit in the agricultural building.
The Utah mining exhibit in the mining
building was still entirely unpacked, as
Don Mcguire, chief of that department,
was making many exchanges of all
classes of minerals and ores with for
eign exhibitors When this exchange
shall have been completed the whole
exhibit will be boxed and shipped to
Utah. and very probably donated to
the territory or the University of Utah.
OF this. however. / am not positive.
but al all events the intentions are to
place it where it will do the most good
and be the most credit to the people of
the territory by remaining one of the
permanent exhibits of the territory.
The exhibit in the woman's building,
which was sent on by the women of
Utah, viii also be returned here, as
well as the showcases and furniture
purchased in Chicago by the commits
sion.
"Utah's building will be sold at auc-
ton, but we do not expect to get over
$500 for it, on account of the many
other buildings which viii be for sale.
none of which are of any intrinsic
value except for the materials which
can be saved from them"
when asked for his opinion of the
result of the election, nationally and
locally, Mr.. Chambers said the partial
defeat of the Democratic party in the
nation was due, in his opinion. to the
prevailing hard times, the people as
usual giving the administration in power
credit for all the evils which afflict
them Regarding the result of the To-
cal election, he said the only thing
which surprised him was the meager-
ness Of the majority of the Citizens
ticket. He had anticipated a much
heavier vote for that ticket
Branching off on to the silver ques-
ton, Nj Chambers said he felt sure
that Congress would enact legislation
favorable to the white metal at the
coming session and predicted that sill
YER viii not reach the IS cent mark.
within the next three years at least.
While in the east he met and talked
with number of congressman and
they all expressed the view that the
repeal of the purchasing clause of the
Sherman act was but the first step
looking to a furtherance of the cause
of silver AND was not in any way in
imical to the interests of that metal.
News received by Mr. Chambers from
the Ontario was of a most encoura ging
nature. He will so up to the Park
in a day or two.