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A GOLD EXHIBITION. 



AEECENT issue of the Chicago Record 

 contained the following item which 

 explains itself : 



A meeting was held yesterday at the Welling- 

 ton hotel to make arrangements for an exhibi- 

 tion of gold industries in Chicago some time in 

 the fall. The Chicago Western society has the 

 matter in charge, and the intention is to have 

 exhibits from all gold-producing countries, to- 

 gether with an exhibition of the systems of 

 mining, crushing and assaying ores. 



The gold regions of Colorado, California, 

 Washington, British Columbia, Oregon and 

 the newly developed gold fields of Georgia were 

 represented and enough gold to start a national 

 bank was pledged for the exhibit. 



The Carriboo district will exhibit a brick 

 worth $42,000. representing a twenty-nine-day 

 washup on one claim. French creek and Trail 

 creek districts, which have been reported by 

 prospectors engaged by Cecil Rhodes and Bar- 

 ney Barnato as being the richest gold fields in 

 the world, will exhibit several carloads of rich 

 ore. 



The Canadian Pacific road, through its agent, 

 Mr. J. F. Lee, promised several carloads of ore 

 and quartz. 



Letters were read at the meeting yesterday 

 from mine-owners in Russia, China, Australia 

 and Africa signifying their willingness to take 

 part in the exhibition. 



Several full-sized crushers will be in operation 

 and also apparatus for extracting the gold from 

 the quantities of placer washings which will 

 be on hand. There will be working models of 

 everything connected with a gold mine, from 

 the most primitive wooden rocker to the latest 

 magno-electric machine of chilled steel. 



Quite a discussion was aroused at the meet- 

 ing by proposals from G. E. Girling, editor of 

 The Irrigation Age, and Mrs. Alice Houghton 

 of the Chicago mining exchange to admit silver 

 and copper to the exposition. The question was 

 left undecided. 



MONTANA CROPS. 



WITH a crop of grain raised in the 

 Gallatin valley last year amounting 

 to two million bushels, the prospects for 

 this year are an important consideration. 

 The first few weeks in July were hot and 

 dry, so that much grain suffered before it 

 could be properly irrigated, and oats and 

 spring wheat will show a slight decrease 

 in the yield per acre over last year. Bar- 

 ley, however, looks well. Winter wheat 



being raised upon non-irrigable land, the 

 rolling bluffs surrounding this great val- 

 ley, has been seriously scorched, and will 

 probably show a decreased yield when 

 harvested the latter part of August, which 

 will be 25 per cent, below that of 1895. 



Potatoes are looking well, while the hay 

 crop is larger in acreage and in yield than 

 ever before, having been so far advanced 

 at time of drought as to be unaffected by 

 it, and the part that clover will take in the 

 hay crop exceeds previous years, with the 

 quality excellent. 



The average decrease in yield per acre 

 here of cereals this year will be 8 per cent. 

 below that of 1895, but a larger acreage 

 should make the total in bushels a little 

 above last year's crop. The prospects, 

 therefore, are excellent in a general way; 

 although individually not up to the aver- 

 age yield, will be appreciated. 



P. C. WAITE, 

 Bozeman, Mont. 



MUCH IN LITTLE. 



It would be worth millions to Kansas if 

 her fly-by-night farmers could be induced 

 to emulate the postage stamp, which sticks 

 to something till it gf ts there. Hon. Edwin 

 Taylor, address to Kansas Agr 1 1 College. 



Wages of farm labor are as high as ever, 

 while household help is not to had at any 

 price. This state of affairs seems to be 

 general, yet the price of farm products 

 was never so low. This thing has got to 

 be evened up. Orange Judd Farmer. 



A telegram reached grain buyers last 

 week directing them to pay only six cents 

 for oats. This is the proposed prosperity 

 under the McKinley regime. O'Neill, 

 Neb. , Beacon Light. 



In the language of the street, Nebraska 

 is " strictly in it this year." J. M. Thur- 

 ston was a central figure in the St. Louis 

 convention. W. J. Bryan was the idol of 

 the Chicago convention. W. V. Allen will 

 be bellwether of the Populist convention. 

 Bentley is the silver Prohibitionist nomi- 

 nee for the presidency. And Nebraska 



