Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-09-27
Superiority Of New Mezico's Miner
al, Agricultural, Horticultural
and Mechanical Exhibits
Conceded.
THE GOLD RILIGREE TABLE
Admired by the Entire Fair-Views Of Ter
~ritorial Institutions and Public Build
ings to Be Added-Interesting
Talk with Manager Leeson.

Commissioner and General Manager
j. j. Leeson, of the New Mexico ex-
hibit at the Omaha exposition, was
in Santa Fe recently from the fair to
secure an addition to the fruits displays.
In this he has been successful, and has
returned to Omaha to resume his labors
there. He will lay over n day in To-
peka to secure rates for New Mexico
day. from the Santa Fe Railroad Com
pany.
HMr. Leeson was interviewed by a New
MEXICAN reporter as to progress OF
things at the fair. Manager Lesson
said:
The Transmississippi and I%nternation-
al exhibition at Omaha is a grand sue
cess, both financially and in point of
attendance. The attendance in fact
has increased at the rate of 1000 per
day for the last IS days. The exposi-
ton will do more good for New Mexico
than any other exposition ever held
upon the American continent; and rela-
tive to the New Mexico exhibit, as a
whole, it is the largest, best and most
complete aver collected from the terri
tory. The mineral exhibit occupies
about 1900 TT. in the mines and mining
building. Eighty-tive mineral districts
are represented, and the display of
gold, silver, copper, lead, iron and other
metals is pronounced by visitors and
experts to be the best general display
at the exposition. Great interest is be-
ing manifested by the thousands of
visitors in the mineral Of the
territory.
In the same exhibit are other attrac-
tions, such as New Mexico's old bell,
the oldest on the American continent,
and which has attracted the attention
of many thousand people who have
copied its history in their note books.
Then there are the oldest bottles on the
American continent, an old Spanish
compass, the mad stone, the iron snake,
stone idols and gods. and scores of other
historic and prehistoric relic; also as
fine lot Of Navajo blankets, baskets
and other Indian curios.
The agricultural exhibit has the most
conspicuous space in the agricultural
building, and is one of the leading at
fractions of the exhibition. However,
the leading exhibit that is admired by
all who see it, is from the Pecos valley.
This is a magnificent case containing
over 300 large glass jars of five and ten
gallons each, filled with the choicest
collections or fruit and vegetables. The
territorial college also makes a fine dis
play of grains and grasses and cereals
of all kinds. The exhibit contains ove
l1s varieties Of wheat, II Of oats, 0 Of
rye, 3 of rice, Z Of corn, Is of beans
and "a jars of other grains and seeds,
making $50 jars on exhibition. The
college has also several large frames,
5x1O feet, handsomely arranged with
grains and grasses; also an exhibit of
mechanical work in wood and iron.
The Maxwell Land Grant Company
has Il complete and beautiful display of
fine grains, pelts and wool. Their wheat,
oats and rye are admired very much by
the farmers of the northwest. The
beet sugar factory of Eddy has a large
and complete exhibit Of the sugar beet
industry, showing the process from the
sugar beet to the white granulated sugar,
the whole exhibit forming one of the
most attractive features of the exposi-
ton.
In literature and advertising matter,
New Mexico leads all OF the states. The
bureau of immigration furnished through
the New MEXICAN Office 40, 900 pamph-
lets we'll written and printed, and are
very interesting. They are eagerly
sought after. The Santa Fe railway
company has also furnished some rs. 900
copies Of a neat pamphlet entitled New
Mexico as a Health Resort, also some
5000 late folders and time cards, while
the Pecos Valley Irrigation Company
has furnished 10000 pamphlets on
the resources Of the great Pecos val
ley section. The Union club OF Ed
DIV furnishes 800 copies OF q recent
issue of the Eddy Argus. The San
ia Fe railroad has and is now doing
all that could be desired to assist
New Mexico, not only in the free trans
portation of exhibits, but also In the I'D.
vertising line. There is one exhibit in
the New Mexico collection that not only
attracts hundreds Of thousands Of Wis
itors, but is one OF the handsomest and
most beautiful works of art on exhibi-
ton. / refer to the Santa Fe gold and
silver filigree table. 1t is the property
of the Ladies board OF trade OF Santa
Fe, and is the admiration and talk OF
the Omaha exposition. 1t has done very
much to advertise New Mexico. Another
grand advertising medium is three large
paintings, each 22x24 feet. The first
represents the Cochiti gold camp. This
picture shows the road leading from
Bland to the Albemarle mine. Upon