Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-29

its beautiful lake; Hot Springs the spring
and its surroundings; Rapid City n lake
and its surroundings; Yermilllon the uni
Webster a grain field; Pierre the Great
Seal.
The Fossil Exhibit
from Sioux Falls was collected by +. W.
Pettigrew for the ladies of Sioux Falls,
and is one of the most interesting ex-
hibits on the ground. 1t embraces not
only shells and wood, but the whole heads
of extinct animals, turtles with only
the legs and head missing which in life
must have weighed 200 or 800 pounds,
bones of mastodons and of the rhinoceros
which once roamed the forests and jun
giles of the Dakotas, now vast p~rairies.
Fragments of the monsters of the deep
are also found, and of the remains of
human beings who lived and died long be-
fore Adam is supposed to have been Gre
ated are also found in this collection,
among them what appears 10 be the ear
of n giant. Passing hastily over the
labels, we find among them the rhinoc-
eros-occidentaliS, broutops robustus, am
menites placetena, Faculties, s~coftes, con-
cretanary shells, squirrel teeth, bones
with quartz crystals, yertebra of silurian,
and very many other fossils of equal in
terest. The exhibit also includes coral
wood, s~elenite, calcite crystals. barite.
belumnites, lime formations and forms
from natural caves; a meteorite found in
the Black Hills as large as a mans head,
and a vast collection of other things of
equal interest. Then there are the heads
OF deer and other animals, of buffalo and
mountain sheep, chairs and sofas made of
horns and nicely upholstered. a lady's
cape made entirely of the feathers of
prairie chickens by Mrs. V. a. Fuller.
The feathers are as neatly laid and fast
ened III their place as they Were on the
birds from which they were taken. There
is n cabin by Mrs. Kirk of Elk Point
constructed of wood from every state in
the Union, and a statue of Letonka, who,
by her timely warning is credited with
saving the lives of many settlers in 1867.
A picture of the chlorination works, for
she reduction of refractory ores in the
Black Hills, and photographs of the sew
eral state buildings, add 10 the interest.
In the aicove devoted TO art are many
pictures worthy of note painted by home
talent. and the display as a whole is COM
plimented because il is true TO the life
of the state and shows just what they
have. Some of the pictures arc of very
6ANet = Ia u NbloEtti
woman of Sioux Falls. sends a very at
~tractive portrait of Lincoln in silk and
hair, made by her own hands. IL is the
result of an effort borne of love for. the
great liberator. There is an endless va
riety of woman's worS. creditable to the
occasion n to the hands which wrought.
In Exhibition Hall
there are very many things of interest
aside from those already noted. There
are grains and grasses and cereal decora-
tions, though these are not elaborate.
Ar elegant cottage, artistic in design,
contributed by the ladies of Custer City.
Is built entirely of Black Hills minerals.
It's windows and roof are of mica. Its
walls show the silver, gold, D p tin,
iron. coal and other minerals. Nuggets
of gold. specimens of tin. with souvenirs
manufactured of the gold and tin, are on
ale, together with slabs, cuts and col
umns of petrifed wood. highly polished.
some of which are large enough for