The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-09-18
MANY EXHIBITS
FOR San DIEGO
Especial to the Silver State)

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1S.-Col. ID
c. Collier, president of the San Diego
exposition, was sitting in his apart
ment at the Shoreham, holding in his
hand cablegram announcing that the
Spanish minister, Senior Don Riano v
Gayongos, had been instructed to pro
ceed to San Diego to assist in the
dedication of the cross erected to the
memory of Father Junipero Sierra and
the site for the Balboa monument
which ceremonies will take place this
month, the 25th, 26 and 9th.
"It will be historical event. OBJ
served Col. Collier, "and we are high.
ly pleased that the king of Spain
elects to recognize this celebration of
the 4OOth anniversary of the diseov-
cry of the Pacific ocean,
with the great development of
machinery of various kinds, it's seems
reasonable to expect something quite
wonderful at the exposition in the way
of machinery building was sug-
gested by the interviewer.
Perhaps so," responded Col. Col.
lier; "but the fact is that we shall
not have any machinery building at
all. IT may seem strange to have an
exposition without a machinery build
ing, but at the San Diego exposition
all of the machinery will be very
busily engaged in the work for which
it was designed.
The idea is not TO have any dead
exhibits. For instance, we shall have
a coal mine IN operation, and people
will be able to go through the mine
and see Just how tn ecoal Is extracted,
taken to the surface Of the ground,
sorted and shipped, The machinery.
engines, hoistfng apparatus, pneumatic
drills and all the rest of twill be
there, but 1t will be in active use.
Merely displayed in huge building, it
would have little interest for anyone
save the machinery experts. Put to
its proper use, it will interest the ex-
perts even more, while the general
public will be given great lesson in
the workings of a modern mine by
modern machinery.
"That is the idea underlying the
whole exposition. There will be no
ineert exhibits. Take another in
stance. The international Harvester
teresting display. But 1t will show
its triumphs of mechanical invention
in action. Ii will have model farm,
with grain growing under irrigation in
tn emost scientific manner with ev-
erything lighted bv electricity. with
the most improved machinery at work
every sort of implement used by the
farmer up to the reapers, binders.
threshers and so forth, giving = prac-
tical demonstration of haw the crops
are raised and harvested. There could
be nothing more fascinating than this.
There win be number of model
farms and orchards, but to people
from the east it is likely that the
most interesting of all OF these will
be the grove of orange, iemon and 9TH
er citrus trees now growing and being
prepared as the exhibit of the south
ern counties, which produce the bulk
of the oranges and lemons consumed
in the United States. This orchard
is making wonderful growth under
the scientific care given ii, and visit
ors to the exposition win be able to
observe the methods of irrigation, eul-
tivation and fruit picking and pack
ing. The lemon trees blossom and bear
fruit the year round, so that the same
tree will have on il blossoms and fruit
ready for picking. There win also be
a typical residence or bungalow where
the people In charge Of the farm will
hive, and various other features illus
trating the mode of ranch life in
southern California;
"And does the government intend
to take any part in this expositionf' -
the colonel was asked.
"There will be some highly inter
esting and instructive government ex-
habits,' was the response of the NOV
ing spirit of the San Diego exposition
''Just what they will be like can.
not tell you now, because they have
not been fully worked out, but the var
ious bureaus which are working for
the development of our natural domain
and for the conservation of our ma
tional resources expect to have ex.
hibits which win illustrate their var
ious activities. anticipate that these
exhibits alone would warrant a visit
to the exposition, for the government
is doing wonderful work which can
be appreciated only by those who are
intimately familiar with it, Take the
forest service. the bureau of plant in.
dustry, the bureau of animal industry
the good roads bureau and various 9th
ers; thep have done and are doing
great things for the people of this
country and II is meant that the peo
pie should learn more of their ac,
tivities. BY means of the experiment
stations many useful plants and trees
are being introduced into this eoun
try and better varieties of evistine
plants are being developed. While
this work is scientific, il will be SC
presented to the public that everyone
will be interested in it.
"It should be remembered that the
climate of San Diego, while classed a,
semi-tropieal, is so even, mild anC
salubrious, that there is scarcely any
thing except the typieally tropica
vegetation which does not thirty,