The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-03-10
GREATEST FAIR IN HISTORY
Coming Exposition Compared
With Other Great Fairs

Up to this time the greatest expo
sition Of which there is m historical
record, the Worlds Columbian Expo
sition, which was held in Chicago In
1893, was the greatest.
There were In the Chicago EXPOSE
ton grounds, including the Midway.
633 acres. The grounds of the Louis
lana Purchase exposition include 1,240
acres, constituting a great parallelo-
gram over n mile wide and two miles
long, nearly double the area of the
g Iounds at Chicago. The areas under
roof at various expositions of the past
were as follows:
In London, in 1851, 81 acres were
covered.
In Paris. in 1867, 81 acres were COW
cred.
In Philadelphia, in 1876, IS acres were
covered.
In Paris. in 1899, rs acres were COW
cred.
In Chicago, in 1893. 200 acres were
covered.
In Paris. in 1900. 125 acres were COW
cred.
In st. Louis. in 19O., over $50 acres
Will be covered with buildings.
The Louisiana Purchase exposition
will cover more ground than the CO.
lumbar exposition, the last Paris ex-
position and the Pan-American expo
sition combined! Two rows Of the
exhibit buildings-four in each row
extend for n mile on either side of
n of the main Twenty-Five
acres of ground are devoted to live
stock pavilions. There will be several
hundred acres devoted to agricultural
arborcultural and neurological ex-
hibits outside of the exhibit palaces.
The Philippine exhibit will cover over
forty acres and will cost over half a
million dollars; and there will be ex-
tensive exhibits from Alaska, Porto
Rico, Hawaii, Tutuila and Guam. re-
curing many acres of space. There
will be more than $50 original groups
of sculpture In the grounds, compris-
ing about 1000 figures. One hundred
miles of wooden conduit have been pro-
vided for the electric lines. There will
be more than 1000 miles of electric
lights. The intramuraI railroad will
be over nine miles long.
These are only a few selections from
a mass of statistics of almost appall-
ing magnitude.
And yet the idea of holding the most
extensive exposition thus far I'm the
history of the world is not the predom-
mating consideration. In every depart
ment of the division of exhibits the
aim is to secure productions of high
character and to install them in a
dignifed and impressive manner rath-
err than to crowd the structures with
exhibits of inferior average quality
with resulting Indifferent effect. Ow-
ing to he very comprehensive CLASH
f~ication, and to the fact that the ex-
hibit field has increased tremendously
in almost every department of human
activity. through new inventions and
wider applications of the forces and
products of nature, far more space is
required than ever before to fairly rep
resent the worlds status in the varied
arts and multiplied phases of science.
The great Louisiana Purchase ex-
position will open its doors to the pub
lie promptly on April 80. 1904. The
exposition company is two months fur
Their advanced in all its building and
other work than Chicago or Buffalo
we4e at this time. There will be one
third greater number of foreign gov
ernments represented in the Louisiana
Purchase exposition than have ever
been represented in a previous EXPOSE
ton.