The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1909-09-17
SEEN AT THE
SEATTLE FAIR
Display Of Far Away
Possessions of the
United States
EACH HAS A BUILDING
Different Vegetable Products, Ber-
ries, Cereals, Flowers, Etc,
From AIaska---Hawaii and the
Philippines Have Good Exhibits
[BY PROF. A. D. BRADFIELD. ]

by PROF A. D. BRADFIELD.
AS one great object of the exhibition
is the exploitation of our great North
western peninsula and the islands of
the Pacific, separate building has
been erected for Alaska, another for
Hawaii, and another for the Philip
pines.
Alaska.
Those who have always regarded
Alaska as region too cold for agricul-
ture are surprised at the excellent dis
plays of potatoes, cabbage, turnips,
carrots, parsnips, radishes. rhuharb,
celery, lettuce, wheat, barley, oats, rye,
buckwheat, as we'll as berries, of which
there are thirteen kinds, including
Strawberries, cranberries, raspberries,
salmon berries, gooseberries aud logan
berries; great slabs and cross sections
Of spruce, cedar, birch, poplar and
hemlock are displayed, and over forty
kinds of flowers that grew more than
100 miles north of the arctic circle.
There is a large collection of stuffed
birds, Including the ptarmigan, auklet,
horned owl, goose, American golden
eye, short tailed albatross, bald eagle,
Pacific elder. king elder, carmorant,
loon, grouse. scooter, putin, pin tail and
dozens Of Others. The lecturer on
Alaska said that Alaska was the duck
hunters paradise, as these fowls con-
gregate there in countless millions
throughout the summer months.
The Hudson Bay Fur Company has
magnificent display of furs ranging in
value as high as $1,000 for single piece,
that of dark silver-tipped sea otter.
There are huge white polar bear skins
nine feet long; beautiful white ermine.
once the emblem of royalty; otter,
muskrat, mink, blue lynx. white fox,
silver fox, red fox, marten, wolf, wolver-
ine, fisher, seal. silver tip fox, aud many
kinds of bear skins. Many kinds of
neatly made fur garments were dis
PLAYED, one lady's oyercoat being valued
at $l25O
OF great Importance in the industries
of Alaska is the catching and packing
of fish, such as salmon, halibut aud
cod. Whaling also is becoming an inn
portant industry. All parts of the
whale are made into some useful pro-
duct, such as bone, oil, meat, meat ex-
tract, leather, glue and fertilizer.
These products are displayed as we'll as
fish traps, machine for cleaning sal
mon, and implements for catching all
kinds of fish. A culinary department
is in operation preparing and giving
free to each visitor dainty lunch con
sisting of crackers and salmon served
hot. The object of this is to show how
appetizing canned salmon may be made
if prepared by their special recipe, d
copy Of which is given to each visitor.
In the center of the building is a pa.
vilion in which is large, strong iron
cage. In this is heavy glass case con.
tanning hundreds of nuggets of various
sizes, and several bricks of refined gold
There is always a crowd looking witt
covetous eyes at the million dollars
worth of gold displayed here. At nigh
this cage, case and all is lowered into {
strong cement vault and amply pro
tected. There are many specimens o.
copper, lead, iron and tin ores and coal
In show case the origin of coal il
demonstrated-frst the wood slightly
altered, then slightly carbonized, tn,
advanced state of carbonization. lig
mite, high grade Ignite, bituminou
coal and anthracite. Some of the lat
ter, which is said to be in seams 80 fee
thick, appears to be as good as that o
Pennsylvania. There are also speci
mems of marble and petroleum. Ii