The San Francisco call., 1898-01-09
How Nevada County Is Showing That it Is
 Wide Awake.
The Growing Boom on the Mother Lode and on
 the Desert.

" HE Mining Fair will be the great est, most varied and most inter
 esting mining exposition ever held,
 and it will be made by it's many
 spectacular, romantic and novel
 features and events as attractive
 to the general public as to mining men. This Is assured beyond question, and practically all the space will be crowded by exhibits already arranged for. Co., operation on the part of business men and on the part of mining men and manufacturers interested in mining and mining companies throughout the State is so general that there will be wealth of exhibits of every conceivable nature.
 The chief thing that will be lacking in the fair will be large and effective ex- hibits from some of the mining counties There is not a mining county in the State which can afford to lose this unexampled opportunity for drawing attention to its mining resources. A few will have superb exhibits that will create in the minds of thousands the impression that those are the counties for a gold-seeker to go to- but many counties will be poorly repre- scented, if at all, by any organized and comprehensive showing of mineral re- sources and possibilities. Their absence will not be to the detriment of the fair as a whole, but to the counties who miss taking tide at it's flood.
 NeNdud dI4t 1dldN6TdS counties seem to provide the best and most enterprising efforts. The Nevada County Supervisors have appropriated the magnificent sum of 5000, and private enterprise is doing won ders to supplement this and make it's use effective. What Nevada County is doing is a shining example for others The fol- lowing interesting account of what the exhibit will be is given by the Nevada City Transcript
 livery branch of the gold mining in dustry will be represented in practical and attractive There will he pumping and hoisting plant and quartz mill in constant operation, with electrici- ty as a motive power; a tunnel. showing the hanging wall. footwall, gouge, ledge. and other characteristics of a typical Nevada County gold mine; scores of tons of gold-bearing ores from various parts of the county; great dumps of auriferous gravel with live, genuine miners pan ming out the royal metal: hundreds of pounds of marvellous gold nuggets from quartz and gravel claims; beautiful crys- tals, of all shapes and sizes; the products of the rich copper mines in the lower part of the county; large photographs of the surface and underground workings of many of our great producers; a mann moth map, showing the location of every claim in the county; big cakes of ice from the eastern end of the county, and branches of luscious oranges from the Pet Hill district; cuts from the great forests around Truckee, and mammoth apples and pears and other hardy fruits from the middle attitudes.
 All these, and many other things, will be shown from the gem county of Cali fornla-the county that has not only the greatest gold mines, but grows the best fruit and lumber and other products to be found in all the wide West"
 Fiosbes of tbe Mining Life Alopg tbe
 Motber Lode.
 From every part of the mother lode come crowding reports showing the con- stantly increasing growth and prosperity