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stinted praise from the visitors.

states and countries that make more of
speciality in this line. One feature of
the states exhibit iu this department
is the display of artificial flies by Benn
OF San Francisco, which is unquestion-
ably the finest at the exposition from
any state or country.
In the educational department Cali
tornia shines, not in the extent of it's
exhibits, as quite number of the
states and some of the foreign coun-
tries have more space, but in the at.
tractive character of the display and
in the variety and quality of the work
the golden state ranks with the best.
This exhibit, surrounded by beauti-
full facade of natural redwood and en-
bodying all the features of school work
IRON the primary to the University,
including splendid pictures by Hill of
different state school buildings, the
Stanford University and the Lick OBJ
servatory, ETC., and features of library
work in the state, is something of
which visitors praise and Californians
are proud. Its fame has gone abroad,
as teachers and college professors who
visit the exposition, hunt it up and say
they were told not to miss it. Com
pared to anything California has ever
done in this line it is as dollars to dimes
and is appreciated by Californians ac-
cordingly.
The University feature of California's
educational display, which is favorably
located in the alcove to the main en-
trance at the southeast corner of the
educational palace, is one in which Cal
ifornians take special pride, since it is
admittedly the best and most extensive
and most interesting exhibit made by
any American university, not except
ing that of Chicago or of Yale. This
is feature which has come with the
advancement of the state and the
times, as it was not touched on at the
Columbian exposition eleven years ago.
In the mines and metallurgy build
ing California has more space than any
other state and makes one of the strong
and striking displays in this depart
ment. The state has some features
here which are. of striking interest.
The finest and largest arch in the
building, built with stones and terra
Gotta and brick from different qua rries
and works in California. stands at the
main entrance to this display. Another
feature is a grotto built and lined with
pepidolite and lithia mica in the shape
of an egg on end, one-half being below
the floor liue and the other half abo We,
with openings in the upper portions
through which visitors can peer, and
look upon the glistening stones as the
different colored crystals are reflected
from the hidden electrical lights.
Another feature is display of borax
and its varied products by the Pacific
Coast Borax Co., being the finest ex-
hibit ever put up by this company.
Still another feature of this display is
a large and handsome cabinet of rich
minerals. including much free cold
from Nevada county, supplemented by
small cabinet containing about so, 900
worth of free gold and rich ore, speci-
mems, which the miners of Nevada
county presented to President Roose-
velt on the occasion of his recent visit
to California, and which the President
has kindly loaned during the term of
the exposition, to be displayed as an
item of California's mining exhibit.
These are supplemented by models, one
of a quartz mill, one of cyanide plant,
one of an oil derrick, and one of a drift
mine.
There is strong display of mineral
oils and of mineral waters, and of struc-
tural material, and all of these are re-
enforced by some forty odd varieties of
minerals, which have commercial
value, and which are mined in Califor-
mia. There are gold specimens and
gems to the value of more than SIS, 900.
La unique features and variety Cali
fornia's mining display has no equal,
and attracts almost as much attention
and as many visitors as any exhibit in
the mines department. In the outside
mining display On the gulch, as it is
called, California has a quartz mill
55x6O feet. In this are housed a fully
equipped stamp mill for crushing gold
ores, furnished by the Joshua Hendy
Machine Works, a Lane rotary mill,
three concentrators, a patent Stag gen.
orator, and a hydraulic giant. The
mills and concentratOrs are operated,
but up to the present the giant consti-
tutes still exhibit.
In the arcade of the mines building
California also shows a road oiling
wagon with patent attachment for
properly distributing the oil on the
roads surface. In the dairy depart
ment California has a beautiful display
OF butter ornamented with a model
after Rasohen's famous painting, typi-
cal of the state. Incubators are exhib-
tied by California in the poultry de-
partment, and incidentally there are
other articles of interest from the gol-
den state scattered throughout the de-
partments, more particularly in fine
arts, transportation, machinery, liberal
arts, mining, etc.