The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-11-17
A VISIT TO THE OMAHA EXPO
SITlON.

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SITION.
Mr.. B. F. Miller and family left Salt
Lake City on the 9th of October for
their winters sojourne In the East. A
letter received from Mr.. Miller e. Oma-
ha written a few days later, describes
the first stage of their journey through
the Wasatch mountains, which abound
in wild and picturesque scenery; the
Canyon OF Echo, whose name is readily
suggested to the mind by . rumble OF
the train as it passes through, thu De-
Wis Slide, two parallel walls of rock
extending straight down the mountain
side into the Weber river, along which
the railroad winds for many miles and
the beautiful cliffs and p~reeipices that
project over the river.
Arrived in Omaha, they devoted sew
eral days to visiting the Trans Missis-
sippi Exposition just prior to Its closing
of which he says:
MANY OF the slightly objects seen to-
day at the Exposition grounds were
observed while visiting the Govern
ment building, to-wit: Tho life sized
statues OF the Army officers, as well as
the balloon used by Shafter in the bat
tie OF Santiago, which was punctured
by the Spanish bullets and carried to
destruction to the San Juan river; also
one of the 46-inch Elongated Bouyant
Torpedoes, charged with 100 pounds
o< dynamite, together with the ten an
nons taken from the forts in the har.
Dor OF Santiago by General Shafter on
the surrender OF the city, July 18th,
1898. In this building we also witnessed
some beautiful collections of specimens
from the Yellow Stoue Park.
The Interior Department also fur
nishes some excellent exhibits in this
building. Among them, evolution OF
the pillow at all stages from the first
pillow that was over made up to the
present day. One would scarcely o
ceive the vast improvement in this n
implement.
The Agricultural building is crowded
with exhibits both beautiful and unique.
Nebraska, of course, has spread her
self and has taken more pride in artls-
tically arranging her every product
than her sister States. She has even
made a house OF corn, all its furniture
OF corn, the family consisting OF father.
mother, brother and sister made OF corn
and their clothing Of corn husks; while
on the wall are two pictures, n made
of corr representing the King Of Corn,
the other made of grasses and labeled
the Queen OF Grass. Nebraska also
presents an excellent appearance In the
vegetable line and, in fact, leads in
melons, squash, pumpkins and cuoum-
bers.
Nevada leads In timothy hay: Oregon
ia wheat, rye, onions and potatoes;Alin-
nesOta In wool flax and hemp. The
great fertility OF the Lone Star State
is evidenced by a number of vegetable
prodigies on exhibition, a sunflOwer of
three months growth measuring II feet
in height, beans Is inches long, wild
grape vines 8 inches ia diameter, etc.
Montana exhibits the largest apple,
weighing 324 ounces, but Idaho, In my
judgement, presents the grandest dis
play Ia the general fruit line, averaging
the smoothest, largest and most uniform
of anv in the Horticultural building.
including plums Of all descriptions, figs.
pears, peaches, apricots, dates, etc.
The mineral exhibits we're also some
thing grand. Nevada. with her record
af production OF 5000. 900, 900 of gold.
silver and other precious metals, "a well
rs having the deepest mine in the world.
presents an excellent showing. White
Pine county. especially has a fine cabi-
net standing some 10 feet high and
filed ar~tistically with specimens from
her " mines. Beside this cabinet Is
eonspicuously stationed a beautiful $50
pound specimen from the Star mine at
Cherry Creek, presented by our Mr..
p. Fl. Cannon, showing its assay value
in gold, silver and lead. This nam
moth specimen attracts the attention OF
the entire multitude of visitors.
But while | am proud of Nevada's
grand mineral display, l do not wish to
be understood that 1t takes the lead
Montana really leads the world. She
has systematically arranged all of her
exhibits In large pyramidical cabinets
decorated with copper and silver bullion
strung all along through the center Of
her department. She has spared nc
lime nor money In representing her
every interest a. this exhibition and de-
serves much credit for efforts to show
the world what she is and what she car
produce.
Many other States have presented
fne mineral exhibits, and especially
Missouri, which excelled any Other
southern State in this line"