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overlapping, and now form a light, 

 «veu surface as smooth as the bird's 

 breast. The cloak is trimmed iu otter 

 fur, which is also the product of South 

 Dakota. 



The gold aud silver and other miner- 

 al exhibits at the Expositiou will prob- 

 ably aggregate iu value several million 

 dollars. Iu exhibits of this description 

 Colorado will naturally take front rauk. 

 It is announced that the gold and silver 

 nuggets to be shown by that state alone 

 are worth a quarter of a million dollars. 

 There has been made a splendid collec- 

 tion of native gold specimens, from all 

 the richest mining districts. A single 

 collection, valued at $60,000, has already 

 been secured. This will l)e supplement- 

 ed by the finest collections, secured as 

 loan exhibits. The exhibits will be both 

 tech ideal aud economic in its character, 

 showing a scientilic ckissiticatiou of the 

 mineralogy of Colorado and a correct 

 presentation of its geology. At the 

 same time a popular and massive dis- 

 play of oi'es, building stone, commer- 

 cial chip's aud other mineral protlucts 

 will be made. In the display will be 

 the "Silver Queen," a bt^autiful statue 

 of an ideal female figure executed in 

 •silver and valued at $7,500 to $10,000. 



THE SOUTHERN STATES. 

 To Show the Products at Buffalo. 



The Southern Section of the Union 

 for the past few years has made extraor- 

 dinary strides iu tiie way of develop- 

 ment. Tho j'oung men of that section 

 have come to the front and are laboring 

 hard to l)uild up aud bring out the vast 

 natural resources of Dixie Land. Ex- 

 positions have been held at Atlanta, Ga. 

 Augusta, Ga., New Orleans, La., Rich- 

 mond, Va. and Raleigh, N. (J. The lat- 

 er uniler tiie direction of a combination 

 of Southern gentlemen interested in the 

 immigration work of the several South- 

 ern States. This year it has been dcv 

 cided to show in one of the large North- 

 ern cities the i)roducts of the South, 

 and Buffalo N. Y. has been .selected on 

 account of its nearness to the Canadian 

 line. The selection of that point en- 

 ables the South not only to reach the 

 people of the North but those in the 

 Dominion of Canada. 



The display of Southern products 

 will be under the charge of Hon. Jno. 

 T. Patrick, Secretary to the Executive 



Board of the Southern Inter-State Im 

 migration Bureau, and was General 

 Manager of the Southern Exposition 

 held iu the city of Raleigh, N. C. iluriug 

 October and Novemi)er of last year. 



A combination has been made with 

 the Management of the Buffalo Exposi- 

 tion, which is held Aug. 17th to 27th, 

 to show the products of the South at 

 the same time, the Exposition will be 

 open to the pui)lic. This gives the vis- 

 tor- the oi)portunity of seeing two great 

 Jjxposilions in one. 



The Buffalo Exposition will be a 

 grand display of the products of the 

 North and the Southern feature will 

 embrace many things not heretofore 

 seen l)y the Northern people, among 

 which will be growing cotton. 



A small patch of growing cotton M'ill 

 represent the way the cotton is planted, 

 grown and gathereil. 



The cotton gin will be shown in full 

 operation daily. This is something that 

 not one person out of a thousand has 

 ever seen. 



An (dd fashioned Spinning wheel will 

 be shown with an old colored woman 

 si)inning and near by will be another 

 colored woman carding the cotton into 

 "rolls" to be used by the spinner and in 

 the same department will be an old 

 Southern cotton loom on which an old 

 colored woman will be weaving "home 

 spun cloth." 



The pine forest will be represented 

 in the way of sections of the trunks of 

 huge tiu-peiitine trees that have been 

 "boxed" to secure the i)iue gum to l)e 

 distilled into turpentine and rosin. 



There will be in practical operation 

 a turpentine still, making from the 

 crude gum spirits of turpentine and 

 rosin . 



A tar kiln will be shown in operation. 

 The exhibits of wild game and animals, 

 alligators and i)lnls from the jungles of 

 Florida, Louisiana aud Texas will ije a 

 veiy interesting sight. 



One of the special features will be the 

 display showing the advancement of the 

 negro' race during the lirst twenty-live 

 years of freedom. This special feature 

 will be under the direction of Dr. J. C. 

 Trice, D. D., said to be the smartest 

 negro the I'ace has ever proiluced. 

 The Doctor is a genuine African, no 

 mixed blood. He is jiresident of one of 

 the largest colored educational institu- 

 tions in the South, an institution built 

 under his own dinictions. 



There will be forty or more planta- 

 tion negroes with the Southern exhibit, 



