Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-25

ration of the International Mining and Industrial association. Among the di- recturs of this organization are Govern or McIntirc, H. R. Wolcott, D. H. Moi fatt, J. B. Grant, Frank C. Young, H. A. W. Tabor and others well known in Colorado. Since then the board of man. agCrS has been increased ill number un- til there arc l,259 members, many of whom, Gs is proper i'll n state where the sexes are equal as tn suffrage, are wom- Cn, though on all tho different urganiza- tionS and boards connected with the promotion of the exposition but two women hold ofticcS-MrS. J. L. Routt, who k first vice president of the board of managers, and Mrs. James H. Platt, who is one of the subordinate vice pres ideutS.
 Early ill thC movement it was real izcd ny the projectors that it would take what uEc of the Denver papers termed "a young fortune" to carry it through, but large sums havo already been subscribed, MT. D. H. Moffatt. president of the association, leading off with so, GOO, and there is now no lon ger any reason tu fear for lack of funds.
 For the site l20 acres If land i'll the southeast portion of what is known as City park and go acres of the school lands, directly adjoining, to the south, have been Srrurrd. Tine principal expo sitinn buildings will he put up on the 20 acre tract, while the l50 acres of City park e"uund will bc hcautiticd and devoted to a comprehensive exposition of the theory and practice of irrigation and the agricultural and horticultural features of the exposition.
 The show will be opened on July l, 1896, and will continue for six months. Buildings for the following named de- partmcntS will be erected: Mines and mining, mechanical arts, manufactures, agriculture, live stock, liberal arts, archaeology. othnology and fine arts. Besides many additional buildings will doubtless be erected by states, counties | and large exhibitors, and the installa- tion of foreign villages will be encour- | aged. It is also expected that the fedcr- al government will erect a handsome building, and number of the agricul- tural colleges and experiment stations, branches of the department of agricul- u!re, have already siGnificd an interest ill tho agricultural and irrigation cxhib- its. By resolution of the Colorado legis- lature the states of tho Union and the nations of the whole earth have been requested to send representatives and exhibits. IL k believed that Arapahoe county will appropriate $l00, 900 and the city Cf Denver $5O. GOO for cxposi- tiOn purposes.
 Of course tho mining exhibits will be chief and most interesting. and, surpris- ing ill many quarters, no doubt, the cx- hibit. of gold will bo quito as promi- uCnt as those of silver mining. A fea- turc probably not duplicated at any other | exhibition ever held will be tho mineral | spring department. wherein samples of water will he shown from mere than 100 different springs, leach one war | rantcd not only tn cure whatever is the matter, hut also tu br stronger i'll taste than any of the others. Then there will hc wonderful exhibit uf gems, another of fruits and others of grasses, shrubs, Iuild'nE stones and so on. It i, proposed that the buildings shall not only be artistic ill design and thorough ly fitted to the purposes for which they arc to be erected, but also permanent ir character, so that the exposition of 1896 can be followed annually by other ex positions, and the architects of Colorado are already hotly competing for the honor of designing these buildings
 The stock of the association is placed at $I, 1000, 900, divided into 1000, ,OO( share. of the par value Of $1 each. Ep cry subscriber to this stock, which 1: nonassessable, is privileged to vote al every meeting of the association, anC the stock is being generally taken uI all over the state of Colorado.