The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-02-02
4 San FRANCISCO LETTER
Washington County Ahead
of the Golden State.
Millions of Money Stored
Away.

we nave received long anu III
teresting letter from Frank Adams,
who with his brother Andy is sojourn-
ing in San Francisco. Frank describes
great many of the sights which they
are enjoying down there. We publish
below some extracts which tell how
millions of silver dollars are boarded
up and also how we knock the sox
off of California in the fruit line:
II went down Eddy, Market, and
Fifth streets and visited the U. S.
mint. There we saw the coins,
foreign and modern, of all countries
and among them was two gold tea
spoons taken from King Solomon's
temple $50 years before the birth of
Christ. They were beautifully en-
graved with perfect rose in each.
Our guide took Us next to vault
containing 80, 200, 600 in silver
dollars that has not been opened for
the last 10 years A big seal was on
the door With the date on when it was
last closed. Then he took US through
the boiler rooms, then to the ingot
room, where they melt the gold with
the copper, then to the room were it
is first rolled one foot long; then it
goes in to the next rolling room and
it comes out five feet long, then it is
put into furnace called the anneal-
ing furnace, then it is left there till
it becomes cherry red, then it is taken
from that furnace and thrown into
vats of boiling water, then taken to
the cleaning room and put into acio
then wiped with chamois skin ano
then covered with wax, then cut out
in twenty dollar pieces; after that they
are put into the milling machine, thel
they are taken to the stamping room
and stamped ready for use. Ou
guide then took us to another biz
vault in which was $40, 600, 900 il
silver which was sealed up in 1872
and has not been opened since.
On the 18th we went to tn
t, Mechanics Pavilion to see the ex
hibitions. The first object tha
= arrests the attention Of the visitors
the three huge aches, built wit
Magunm Bonum Oranges, modle
after the arch of Constantine, {
Rome. The arch is festooned wit
evergreens and surmounted with ia
: palms. The arches were about
. feet high and on each side are all tt
different kinds of figs fixed up in tw
pyramid stands, The principle e,
hibit is by Robert Hector, of Mon
Rio Co. He has 25, 00d Orang
here including 25 different varietie
O A little farther on was cottage bu
- rs feet square and IA feet high bu
with Navel Oranges from Placer Co
California. The next was a Cast
built of oranges, 80 feet square witt
III, spire on it 20 feet high and clo'
od 80,
~ on each square, made with Orange
That was from Butte Co. Cal. Th
we came to a section of the big r
wood tree. In front of the band W
big arch, in the background "
T. represented dark cloudy sky, vi
a large cross built of oranges resti
on a rock out in stormy sea. L
professional actresses were clingi
,..u to the cross, and over the cross VIZ
the words, also in oranges, Crock
Ages" AS the actresses clung to
rock the band played. Crock of Al
cleft for me" This looked VI
beautiful by the electric light, but
\ display of fruits etc that Mr.. Ham
had at Weiser, and which | saw
fore | left for San Francisco, was
better than any that | saw at
'OU Mechanics pavilion; that is of
kinds raised in Idaho. Of course
don't raise Magnum Bonum or Ma
and Riverside Oranges there but Il
Bill don't raise such apples, plums, pru
and many other kinds of hardy FRI
p as are raised in Idaho. You can g
Mr. Hannah's orchards or MIR. Tayl
and different others, and get differ
kinds that are far superior to
fruits that l have seen here,
especially in apples, and can beat Il
hollow in their wheat, barley
oats. Mr.. Hannah showed me
,inos better display Of grapes before |
than I have seen at the payill