The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-03-25
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be viewed and inspected at WILL Every
advantage has been taken of previous
fairs to make the display as attractive
and instructive as possible. Ii Is diff
cult to say what building draws the
most visitors, whether it is the agri-
cultural, mineral, educational, aud so
on. The visitors swarm through all.
1t is constant stream from one to
another. In the industrial building
Ford machines are assembled from an
APPARENT junk pile in about 10 minutes
and made ready for the road. To men
ton exhibits would be like an attempt
to count the spears Of grass on lawn
A weeks attendance viii impart fair
knowledge of the grounds, the build
ings and the lay of the land about, as
well as the principal features, but that
is about all. A month will prove daily
Interesting and instructive. OF course
there may be some that will view the
fair as they read newspaper-look at
the headlines-or walk through a IL
brary and claim all the knowledge in
the books ON the sho'ves,
The Idaho Building.
This house, for which the legislature
of the state made an appropriation of
100000, Is located among row Of
state buildings at the west end, near
the Marina The site is a very pretty
one, only short distance from the
seawall The view over and across
the bay and of the Golden Gate could
mot be improved along the shore line.
Jan incoming and outgoing vessels are
brought into plain sight, and the bat.
Itleship Oregon is anchored in the
roadway only little distance away.
But 1t seems very strange that the
original commission, which planned
and had the building erected, did not
take into careful consideration just
what was needed for Idaho and sub
Isequent requirements. The building
Is a very large one, and would have
been housed there. They are not, how
ever. The mineral, agricultural and
horticultural exhibits are among the
other exhibits of their kind in the adj
ministration buildings. This has given
the Idaho building a sort of vacant
stare. The two stories are as empty
as a last years bird nest. A few
chairs and a table relieve the monot-
ony of the lower floors, and sort of
ladies' parlor is partltioned off on the
upper one. Then there is a melancholy
Darkness all around No porch or
veranda on the outside for visitors to
sit and rest to watch the sad sea waves
as the tides ebb and flow; and no pie
lures, ornaments or mottos to adorn
the walls, or carpets for the floors
Why? The appropriation was almost
exhausted before the present com
mission took charge. The building
nearly double in size of the New York
state building, absorbed the largest
amount, and collecting and placing
the exhibits almost took the remain
der, leaving the present commissioners
with a balance too small to do any
thing more than make visitors partly
satisfied that Idaho is at all represent
ed by building.
The Idaho Exhibits.
The agricultural and horticultural
exhibits of Idaho in the grlcultural
are creditable. They 90 not
Cvershadow those of other states. but
they Will draw attention. The display
Is MT, hOweN er, materially ilnrrr,. / !
ever The exhibits made at the Portland /
anG Seattle fa:~s. The mineral ex-
hhit in the mines building is not as
60 u Is those previously mace ,y the |
tate N other fairs. In fact it was n Vt |
Crcditable on March 49, Son.G galena |
and zinc ores from the Occur d'Alenes |
were shown and of these some were
labelled Prom the Capitol" without
giving the name of the mine, district
or county. This indicated that the
ore was not from the mines direct but 4
from a former exhibit stored at the
state capitol building, which the orig I
nal commission collected and shipped
10 the fair, and did not even remove
he label Not one exhibit gave an
assay value of the metals in the ore,
he production of the mine, the divi-
lends paid, or other information re ,
he layman, the exhibit is worth about
Is much as the granite walls on the
ireat Northern railroad line. |,
Separate Exhibits.
The state of California has a very l
arge building of it's own for its pro- /
ucts and industries. So has Canada, 9
australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and t
ONE minor countries Canada has ]
owever, drawn more attention than t
ny of them, for it has display that j
ans the floor space from the time the
oors are opened until they are closed
Entertainment, II
Ample provision Is made for enter
linment in various ways Music is :
ne main feature and this is furnished
ODen courts" or marks nv nurernur 4