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cent dome surmounts the centre of the building, while two graceful towers finish 

 each wing. Within, the sides are fairly honey-combed with galleries, but the 

 main space of the ground floor is left free for the exhibit of ores and machinery. 

 The buildings have cost $300,000, and an annex is now in process of erection 

 for the agricultural exhibit. This is the "stuff" western men are made of. 



The grounds devoted to the exposition consist of forty acres at the southern 

 terminus of Broadway, Denver's most fashionable driving street; a smooth, level 

 and wide thoroughfare leading all the way from the city out to the grounds, 

 which have a lovely view to the west, of the Rocky Mountains, whose foot-hills 

 are but fifteen miles away. A narrow-gauge railway, with easy, delightful coach- 

 es runs from Curtis Street — in the heart of the city — to the grounds, and one 

 can go there for the "widow's mite" of our times — a nickel. Both the Denver 

 and New Orleans, and the Denver and Rio Grande Railroads run near the Ex- 

 position place, so that the traveller from the east, if he comes up the southern 

 way, has a comprehensive sweeping view of the whole structure before he has 

 fairly entered the city. 



With so much said in regard to the breadth and enterprise of spirit which 

 has conceived the idea of and completed the erection of buildings which would 

 be noticeable anywhere on the continent, but which are absolutely wonderful in 

 this the newest of the States, one's attention is naturally called to the causes 

 which led to the exhibition, and the character of the exhibits. 



The principal cause for this movement, I gather from the circular issued by 

 the executive committee, to have been a desire to remove the ignorance concern- 

 ing the resources of the western country, that yet prevails to a considerable ex- 

 tent in the east ; to stimulate invention, and bring capital more directly than it 

 possibly has been face to face with opportunities for investment, and with skilled 

 labor in the several provinces of industry to which the exhibition will be devoted. 



The area of the Western territory directly interested in mining aggregates 

 1,196,084 square miles, almost one-third the area of the whole United States, 

 together with Alaska; therefore it is pertinent that mining, its ores and machinery^ 

 and the sciences directly connected with it, hold the primary place in the exhibits. 



Nothing perhaps will be of greater interest than the immense masses of ores 

 to be exhibited. The largest single mass will come from Arizona; it is of native 

 silver, and weighs seven tons. A mass of soda will be sent from Wyoming, 

 weighing five tons, which will be even greater than the one shown from the same 

 mine at the Centennial. A silver specimen of 2500 pounds, comes from Pitkin, 

 Colorado, and three lumps from San Juan county, Colorado, will average the same. 

 A gold cube also will come from a Pitkin County mine, worth $150,000. New 

 Mexico will send several "chunks" of silver ore of 2, 500 pounds; while from the 

 Wood River district of Idaho, probably a dozen will be shipped, averaging 1,000 

 pounds. The Robert E. Lee, of Leadville, will place on exhibition a mass of 

 horn silver of 166 pounds, which is a great curiosity aside from its intrinsic value. 

 The Horn Silver mine of Frisco, Utah, will also furnish an immense mass, but 



