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overlapping, and now form a light, 

 ■even surface as smooth as the bird's 

 breast. The eloak is trimmed in otter 

 fur, which is also the product of South 

 Dakota. 



The gold and silver and other miner- 

 al exhibits at the Exposition will prob- 

 ably aggregate in value several million 

 dollars. In exhibits of this description 

 ■Colorado will naturally take front rank. 

 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 be supplement- 

 ed by the finest collections, secured as 

 loan exhibits. The exhibits will be both 

 techuical and economic in its character, 

 showing a scientific classification of the 

 mineralogy of Colorado and a correct 

 presentation of its geology. At the 

 same time a popular and massive dis- 

 play of ores, building stone, commer- 

 cial clays and other mineral products 

 will be made. In the display will be 

 the "Silver Queen," a beautiful 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 

 Sor the past few years has made extraor- 

 dinary strides in the way of develop- 

 ment. Tho young men of that section 

 have come to the front and are laboring 

 hard to build up and 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. C. The lat- 

 er under the direction of a combination 

 •of Southern gentlemen interested in the 

 •immigration work of the several South- 

 ern States. This year it has been de- 

 cided to show in one of the large North- 

 ern cities the products 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 in the city of Raleigh, N. C. during 

 October and November 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 public. This gives the vis- 

 .tor= the opportunity of seeing two great 

 Expositions 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 by the Northern people, among 

 which will be growing cotton. 



A small patch of growing cotton will 

 represent the way the cotton is planted, 

 grown and gathered. 



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 old fashioned Spinning wheel will 

 be shown with an old colored woman 

 spinning 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 piue forest will be represented 

 in the way of sections of the trunks of 

 huge turpentine trees that have been 

 "boxed" to secure the pine gum to be 

 distilled into turpentine and rosin. 



There will be in practical operation 

 a turpentine still, making from the 

 crude gum spirits of tm-pentine and 

 rosin. 



A tar kiln will be shown in operation. 

 The exhibits of wild game and animals, 

 alligators and birds from the jungles of 

 Florida, Louisiana and Texas will be a 

 very interesting sight. 



One of the special features will be the 

 display showing the advancement of the 

 negro race during the first twenty-five 

 years of freedom. This special feature 

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

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

 negro the race has ever produced. 

 The Doctor is a genuine African, no 

 mixed blood. He is president of one of 

 the largest colored educational institu- 

 tions in the South, an institution built 

 under his own directions. 



There will be forty or more planta- 

 tion negroes with the Southern exhibit, 



