Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-08-27


None Of the territories have done much
! IN tho way Of arranging for set day, ex-
cept possibly Utah, and her day, Sept. 9, IS
! necessarily the same as that of California,
! rs Il was on Sept 8, 1850, that President
/ Fillmore signed all those compromise bills
/ which made California q state and fixed
| the status and boundaries Of the territor-
/ les. Utah had applied for admission as
state and has since applied many o time
and oft, but though her population ex-
/ ceeds that of three adjacent states com
/ biued she is still knocking in vain. Her
| mineral exhibit, however, is splendid as
are those of all the mining regions ana
when want TO be entertained without Ell
! fort 60 TO one of their pavilions IN the
| Mines building and sit down. The miner
al cabin from Sierra county, n. NJ, Is well
| worth seeing rs indeed are all the state
and territorial pavilions. New Mexico's
day ia Sept l6 but there is no special pro
| grnmme yet. The same may be said OF
Montana's day. Sept. 90; 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 lg
norant as well as other people. brigham
Young aud l32 other pioneers first entered
the valley on July "a, lS47, rs have heard
him say many time.
~
Speaking Of the mining regions and the
many curiosities in this building, there is
one set which have not yet made up my
mind 10 accept-that is, the story told
about them. IL is claimed that they are
the tools used by the Greeks 5000 years
ago at Laurum. That was about 6VO
wears before Athens. amounted TO much.
Alongside Of thIsn Gfe~ some OF the tools
used today aud If botbscre genuine l must
soy that the Greeks are very unprogres-
siye. for the diiFere ntegas to convenience Is
not much. The exhibitor says the chief
difference is that tbe+uiners Of today use
baskets instead Of leather bugs 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 u very good history of Greek
mining. Possibly the record as interpreted
IL COIItCNs 1OI bOD = Il WIN va " 'SNASAA
OChap. xxyii--the new translation is
great Improvement describes silver
mining very much as it is carried on in
Mexico today.
Other great curiosities and novelties in
this building are: TheMichigan pavilion,
the artistic column of New South Wales,
the model stamp mill from the Michigan
copper mines, tho relief map showing the
WORKINGS in Iron Mountain, Mo-, Ken
tuckys 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
Zulus, the Statue OF Liberty in salt, jocu-
larly known as Lots Vile" and the IA
NOUS silver Queen" from Colorado, sill
yer statue Of 8 seveuteep'year old girl, as
Colorado has been a state for seventeen
years. Montana's reproduction in silver
of Ada Rehap--of course everybody has
read about it, for they r:ade sure Of pub
licity by getting upa row about it.
j. II. BEADLE.