Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-24
IDAHO DISPLAYS
VALUABLE NUGGETS
interesting Features in Connection
With the Mineral Exhibit from
The Gem State.
ALL GLASSES OF ORE SHOWN.
Specimens Brought from Various
Camps-Products Of the Orchards
Aud Farms,

anu RAT MS,
Idaho IL getting herself talked about
at the worlds fair. No state makes
more Interesting display of products in
agriculture. Horticulture, and mining
than does the Gem State Of the Noun
tains
Other states have spent more money
IN displaying their charms, they have
erected more costly state buildings,
have used more gold leaf on their ex-
hibits and have covered more space
On the floors OF the exhibit palaces;
but no one can see the Idaho exhibits in
the departments named without recog-
MIXING the fact that Idaho has some
thing worth ones while to Investigate
The state legislature appropriated but
$4,000 for the display but the COM
missloners have made every dollar
count. In the mines exhibit there are
ores shown that would sell In the mar
ket any day for $4,000
This mining exhibit Is particularly al
Turing. In one pyramid Of ores there Is
one huge boulder. II Is a silver mug
get that weighs more than Ave tons, has
zoo ounces Of silver in IT, and 60 per cent
of lead There Is another nugget IN the
same pyramid that weighs four tons.
These nuggets come from Wallace. Ida
The HALEY mines furnish even rich
or nugget IL weighs 1000 pounds, con-
7ains $40 ounces OF silver and Is 70
per cent lead There are shown 10
samples " copper, and some specl-
mems show as much as 40 per cent pure
copper.
The gold nuggets are peculiarly at
tractlye, These are chunks Of pure
gold Just as they come from the placer
mines,
The beautiful gems from Idaho have
been admired by all worlds fair WISH
tors who have seen them There Is the
opal garnet, crystal, topaz, amethyst
ana turquoise. They are displayed In
oil conditions and show that the artis-
Tic was not forgotten when nature
formed the great northwestern state.
A large sign In gold letters on the
wall OF the mining booth shows Idahos
mineral output for 1908 10 be as fol-
lows
Gold ...,.,". -, .,,,.,,,,,,S 2,OS5 1893 10
SILVER '... .'.,. t...,,., 9,3lS, 1856 II
I.eau 49,. ''.''''..', B,3Sb2l3,l3
copper ''''''' 80 .''''' 5Bog04,O Vi
Total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS l2S l47 81
Superintendent Mcbride was ready
for visitors on the opening day, and
Idaho was one of the six states to have
all mineral exhibits IN place when the
worlds fair opened.
HORTICULTURE NOT FORGOTTEN
1t was IN the palace OF horticulture
that Idaho most surprised visitors who
were unacquainted with that states
wonderful resources. On the opening
day Superintendent Vessels displayed
206 plates of apples covering 20 yarie-
ties The mngling OF the colors, and
the delicious fragrance caused every
passer by 10 pause and admire. The
wlnesaps We're large and red the Ar
kansas Blacks were apparently carved
from ebony and were as firm as could
be; the Wolf River was so large and
30 wildly red as to cause
wonderment. Then there was the BAN
ana apple, the White Winter Pearmain
the Rome Beauty the Newtown, the
York Imperial and the Ben Davis. An
were developed TO the highest degree
and demonstrated that apples raised ON
the high irrigated lands OF Idaho, with
its fertile soil and wonderful climate
can not be surpassed anywhere. After
making this big display on the opening
day there were yet a thousand boxes
of apples IN cold storage and these viii
last until fresh fruit comes 20 replace It,
AGRICULTURE A FEATURE.
"The Gateway tos1daho" Is the design
OF a monumental arch that attracts at
tention to the states display in the
Palace Of Agriculture Here is shown
tau IA
wonderful soil can produce The back.
ground of the design Is green and black
and the white straw and the green
grass show TO wonderful advantage. In
Idaho the rainless summers bleach the
straw to an ivory white and cure the
grasses and alfalfa, permitting them to
retain their vivid green color and an
their nutrition, Great sheafs of duz2
ling white wheat oats and flax 30 to
make up the columns. reaching to the
erchWay on the walls are seed boxes
showing The threshed grain beneath the
shcayes 70 that one can examine the
pral1ct frcm every standpoint. Corn
NsVpias wonderfully wrought IN grains
nre pOurlng forth their wealth Of pro-
ducts from the fields
Above tht archway Is the word ida
no. fornud ~ the seed OF blue grass
millet, turn'C and wheat, The letters
are of rustic design, The south end OF
the booth Is built of dried fruit, great
smooth black prunes forming the coll
.umns, ana the decorations being in
dried peaches, apricots and apples, Else
where are shown the garden products
There are potatoes and beets OF wonder
ful size aud unsurpassed quality. There
are Spanish onions, raised on irrigated
land, that have "a circumference OF "A
inches. Hanging baskets made of ears
of corn with the husks turned back for
the baskets are suspended between
, posts. There are festoons OF grains
and grasses SO gracefully placed as to
make the whole display resemble some
mammoth show OF eXqulsitely wrought
embroidery
WIDE OPEN TO VISITORS,
The portals OF Idahos state building
were wide open 10 visitors ON the opeu-
ing day OF the fair, and they have not
been closed. The key Is lost Tho
latch string as on the outside and "a
true western hospitality IS extended to
oil visitors, be they from the west, east.
north or south. The Idaho bungalow
has elected much praise. II As a square
building with all Of the rooms opening
on square court In the center. The
mems rooms are all finished in the nat
ural woods Of Idaho, and the docora.
lions are mainly OF Indian curiOs. In
the womeu's part the furnishings are
elegant and tasty The visitor from
Idaho rs reminded Of the beautiful
scenery of HIS own state By the trans.
parcnclcs that take the places Of clear
glass I'm some OF the windows. These
scenes show the grand mountains. lakes
and rivers Of Idaho, with some splendid