The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-05-01
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IDAHO EXHIBITS
IDAHO STANDS IN THE FORE
FRONT In IT'S EXHIBITS AT
san FRANCISCO
Interesting Comment on the Activities
Surrounding Idaho at the Big
Panama Pacific Fair

Dresdan art gallery he saw noisy
careless crowd pause before statue
of the Madona and pass out hushed
and awed by the spell of the painter
Some such feeling takes possession
of the intelligent and appreciative Wis
itor to the Idaho exhibit in the agri-
cultural building. 1t is magnificently
staged. The big agricultural building
itself is a spectacle to awe and i'm
press the beholder 1t covers some
seven acres and it is filled with ex-
hibits from seventeen states and eight
foreign governments not including the
magnificent exhibit of our own gov
! ernment. But the Idaho exhibit is
what occupies our present muse.
IdahO's Good Showing
When it is remembered that the
state of Washington had $250,000 ap-
propriated to erect it's building and
make its display, that Oregon had
i$175,000, and each put up displays
very near the Idaho exhibit, while
Idaho had only 100000 all told to
erect its building and make it's dis
play for mineral, agriculture, and
horticulture, the scale and style of our
exhibit causes ione to marvel. AS
you enter the agricultural building
you see from afar the large arch with
the word Idaho" standing promin-
ent. The curve of the arch from the
outside represents our grains, with
a miniature Bunker Hill & Sullivan
mine on the right, while the inside
has a dairy and shepherds s scene very
beautiful and attractive. Passing un-
der the arch the visitor is much il
pressed by the replica of the Arrow
rock dam worked up from photo
graphs. This dam as is well known
is 351 feet high, and boards water suf-
ficient to irrigate 243,000 acres of land.
This dam is 81 feet higher than any
other in the world. Nesting between
the walls of the mountains round
about is a miniature farm showing
in detail the methods of irrigation,
with its buildings, and varied crops.
This is a picture that indelibly i'm
presses itself even upon the casual
visitor. Going around the display ar
looking from the other side you see
an impressive replica of Shoshone
Falls, girt round and about are the
gigantic arms of the mountains. Any
one who has read the wonderful de-
scription of Shoshone Falls as Civ
en- by Mr.. C. G. Goodwin, formerly edi-
tor of the Salt Lake Tribune but now
Goodwin's Weekly, will have brought
to his remembrance by this display
of their weird and fasci
mating loveliness. Though on min
iature scale yet the proportions are
so realistic that a sense of the ac-
tual scene takes possession of you.
Some Idaho Exhibits
aClG Is III DlCpsll utlOu " OO plebNOU
along the miniature river represent !
ing the Snake, a base relief map of
Idaho showing in detail the principal
cities, rivers, and mountain chains.
At one end Of the exhibit on the
-op is representation of loaf OF |
bread II feet long and s feet wide /
With sacks of -four around it showing !
he bread industry of the state, On |
he other end Of the exhibit is a big
photo about tile same size as the
oaf of bread which calls attention to
he large and comprehensive display
# potatoes from the potato producing
districts Of Idaho
This article is not intended to be
Ia exhaustive one on the subject OF
,ur agricultural display but later we
will enter more into details.
One unique feature Of the grain dis
3lay is that all grains are in open
containers 50 that it can be handled
Is we'll as seen, and it is interesting
@ see the farmers from different
parts of the country runAing their
lands through and testing this
rain. When they see a sample of
,ats frofl eastern idaho from one of
he dry farms there that went 110 /
bushels to the acre as it came from
he machine they like to heft it and (
;ize it UP that way. This feature is {
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