The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-03-29
EXHIBIT
AT SAN DIEGO
Especial to the Silver state.)

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Smithsonian Institute of Washington
is enthusiastic over the plans of the
San Diego exposition to show, by the
aid of complete archaeological dis
play, the history of the progress of
man.
/ Col. ID. c. Collier. president of the
exposition, announces that the gov
eminent scientists are actively engag-
ed in the great work of putting to-
gether this exhibit; but they will not
be alone in contributing to it. for
much of the material for this great
story of mans rise from prfmeval
times will be got together from the
most remote lands. The mere mention
of the purpose of the exposition man
agement is enough to suggest the
possibilities of the exhibit. The little
burnt bricks from ancient Babylon on
which were written lessons for the
children at school in those ancient
days will form a basis on which a
Babylonian school room can be re-
constructed with the teachers and the
pupils at their task. A heap of masto-
don bones covering the skeleton of a
cave man with his flint spear will be
translated into a tale of the earliest
man overcome in his courageous at
tempt to provide food for his family
The fragments discovered in various
ages and diverse places WILL in short,
he dramatized by the anthropologists
who will stage at San Diego in 1915
the greatest play, if one might call il
that, that the world has seen
Practical Irrigation.
Government scientists who have
been devoting their skill and energies
to the reclamation of the waste places
in this country by means of the stor-
age of flood waters and the irrigation
of lands which receive too little rain
for the successful growth of crops.
are delighted to know that at the San
Diego exposition in 1915 there will be
complete demonstration of the
science Of irrigation, in which the
government will take very promi-
nent part. Even now those who casu-
ally visit the exposition grounds will
have their interest aroused by two
very different systems of irrigation
1t should be said that the exposition is
to have magnificent. lavish floral
setting. and that millions of palms,
ferns, decorative trees and Towering
plants are now being cultivated in a
great nursery on the exposition
grounds so that there shall be an
abundance of material with which to
rake this the greatest floral exposi-
tion that has ever been held. In grow
ing all of these plants in climate
like San Diego, where the rainfall
is light, it is necessary to give them
much water. so the management has
drawn on the magnificent and mex
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the eitv, and has installed great sys-
tenn of pipes for sub-irrigation, and
another system of overhead pipes for
the making of artificial rain from
above. Whenever it is desired to
dIench the foliage and cleanse it of
dust or refresh the thirsty leaves. the
gardener can turn a spiget and have
gentle rain descend at anv point. or
over the entire horticultural and floral
plantation, including the orange and
lemon groves which the southern
counties are making a part of their
exhibit
Probably this will be the first time
in history that visitors to an exposi-
tion can walk into a bearing orange
grove. laden with the peerless fruits
so full of juice that nature has had to
leave the seeds out entirely, and pluck
from the trees such fruit as never be-
fore was known, even bv the first
parents in the garden. That is what
will be possible at San Diego in 1915,
and all that will be necessary will be
to see President ID. C. Collier and Sc
cure a permit to roam in the garden
and pluck the fruit with no fear of
being hanished by a guardian with a
big stick or flaming (or other)
sword
Temperance Administration.
Not little interest was manifested
throughout the country in the report
that this would be dry season at the
White house. The president, the vice
president and most of the cabinet, it
was announced. would taboo the cup
that cheers. But now comes the re-
port that this was premature and too
sweeping; that there would be an OPP
portunity for thirsty diplomats and
others who enjoy a glass of wine, to
indulge that taste at formal dinners.
The president is in favor of temper
ance, but he is not going to try to
make the representatives of foreign
governments conform to his ideas in
this respect. and even his fellow eoun-
trymen-not excepting his private sec
retarv, the faithful Tumulty-will be
permitted a great deal of leewav in
the choice of food and drink. Even
in California where the wine grape
flourishes to perfection there are