The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-05-30
WEDNESDAY,. MAY 80, 1894.
STATE BUILDING AT THE FAIR.

commissioner James 1eTlngtoH, WHOSE
earnest and untiring efforts are crowned
with success, wrote the following de-
scription of the Nevada building at the
Midwinter Fair, which occupied the first
page of the .'Midwinter Fair Daily on
Nevada Day:
1.-THE only State building erected is
that of Nevada, situated pleasantly on
the north drive of the Park road, ada
cent to the entrance to the 40 Mining
Camp. The building, C%orinthian in ar
chitecture, surmoanted with a roof gar
den, where a grand view of Strawberry
| Hill, the Child's Cross and surrounding
country is obtained, covers an area of
60x50 feet, three stories high"
THE ground floor is occupied with an
excellent exhibit of the States agricul-
tural resources In the center is a pyr-
amid crowned with a large sheath Of
Chinese oats, the lower portion being
used for a display Of 60 varieties OF grains
in redwood boxes covered with glass,
punches Of various grains, and a large as
sortment Of preserved fruits and pickle g
in jars. On the right is the Experiment
tai Station exhibit, being the only one
OF it's kind at the Exposition, showing
amount of digestible, food necessary to
produce 10 lbs of growth on various ami
mails. Complete analysis of milk and
-, ..OI,,oto a1aN alfalfa tho tnooOfc in
furious and beneficial to shrubs, with
insecticides for destroying those injur-
ious, weeds and grasses injurious to
farming.
"a separate room is devoted to the ex-
hibit from all the public schools, show
ing the work uncorrected) from the low
est grade to the High Schools.
"The left side is devoted to an exhibit
of apples, honey, cheese, potatoes, alfal-
ia, timothy and -four. The walls are
covered with large velvet frames show
ing sixty varieties OF cereals in sheath.
A beautiful granite monument from
| Washoe County is also shown.
'The mineral exhibit, representing an
output of 5000, 900 900, IS located on the
wide gallery. Probably no State in the
Union could begin to reproduce the
same in the great variety of minerals
shown. The Comstock lode is we'll rep
resented. An Interesting thing is the
first piece of black stuff picked up by
Comstock in 1859, being float silver, and
was the creation Of the great Comstock
lode. Accompanying this is a full COM
| plement of specimens from the Bonanza
mine, representing $77 900 900 in divi-
dends, and finally q bunch of ore extract
ed from the lowest point that ore was
ever discovered, $3.50 #. level of the
Savage mine. Gold and silver ores in
every condition are shown, including all
of the latest discoveries made in the
State; iron, coal, anthony, nickel and
cobalt, copper, lead ores and mica, to-
gether with a handsome collection Of
marble, occupy the south and west gal
leries.
"On the south gallery is also shown the
wonderful exhibit OF prehistoric relics
taken from the quarry of the Nevada
State Prison at Carson, showing the
remains of the mastadon, sable tooth
tiger, horse, deer, and the supposed
prints of u human being. If this latter
is proven, all scientific theories as to the
age OF man upon this earth are complete
ly upset. An interesting exhibit near
by is that OF the natural mineral CASTLE
soap as mined in Elko County. 1t has
all the qualities of a first grade soap,
and is much sought for by visitors as a
great curiosity.
son the north gallery is shown the ex-
hibit of salts, sodas, borax, sulphur, alu-
minum, l~ustre, natural and refined, to-
gether with the magnificent mineral col
l~ections OF Joseph Grandelmeyer of
White Pine County, r. S. Kelley, and
E. q. Morrison, the latter valued at $22-
600, comprising the minerals of the
world.
The ladies' reception room is a marvel