EXHIBITION OF 1870. 
The seventeenth general exhibition of the society was held 
on what has long been known as the Cold Spring Grounds in 
the suburbs of Milwaukee. 
These grounds embrace some sixty acres, and are well 
adapted to such uses. They had been greatly improved dur¬ 
ing the summer, at the expense of Milwaukee citizens, by the 
removal of stumps, the smoothing over of many rough places,the 
construction of new carriage ways, so as to make them acces¬ 
sible on three sides, by the improvement of old buildings and 
the construction of many new ones, including five large exhi¬ 
bition buildings for the departments of agriculture, horticul¬ 
ture, operative machinery, manufactures and fine arts, each 
forty-five by one hundred feet, together with some eighty new 
and permanent stalls for horses, and several hundred temporary 
stalls and pens for cattle, sheep, swine and poultry. 
They were accessible from every quarter but one by car¬ 
riage and on foot, and on the northwest side by rail; the new 
northern branch of the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway pas¬ 
sing so near as barely to leave room for platforms for passen¬ 
gers and machinery between the track and the enclosure. The 
chute for the taking off and loading of cattle, etc., passed all 
stock arriving by rail directly from the cars into the grounds. 
The track, always popular, had been much improved and a 
handsome judge’s stand had been built to such a height that 
the judges could overlook all intervening buildings and note 
the movements of horses upon the track from the starting off 
to the coming in. 
The railroad company cordially entered into the society’s 
plans by arranging to have trains arrive early in the forenoon 
