. Annals of Iowa . JUS, This is a large iron building 350 feet long- by 120 feet wide. In itwill be exhibited cotton in all stages of manipulation from the ballto the bale. The newly invented Cotton Pickers, Openers and Lap-pers, aie well as the various and complex machienery for ginning,cleaning, baling and compressing, will be in constant operation. Thesupply of field cotton for this purpose will be abundant. In addition to cotton machinery this extension of Machinery Hallwill contain the various kinds of machinery used in the rolling ofcane and manufacture of sugar, andin the harvest ing- a
. Annals of Iowa . JUS, This is a large iron building 350 feet long- by 120 feet wide. In itwill be exhibited cotton in all stages of manipulation from the ballto the bale. The newly invented Cotton Pickers, Openers and Lap-pers, aie well as the various and complex machienery for ginning,cleaning, baling and compressing, will be in constant operation. Thesupply of field cotton for this purpose will be abundant. In addition to cotton machinery this extension of Machinery Hallwill contain the various kinds of machinery used in the rolling ofcane and manufacture of sugar, andin the harvest ing- and milling*ofrice. Various kinds of factory and mill machinery for wood working,brick and tile making,etc., will be located in this structure. Adja-cent to this binding: there will be a line of sawmills, extendingtoward the river showing fortv sawmills in motion. ANN I LS OF IOWA. 121 THE GROUND PLAN. mj. Lin ,u fife—i_£3J!!MN iPrtnnrtnr n >w fawssaQ-Ni ,-tj//. Tiff I! 1 Scale 1,430 feet to the inch. Main Building. Live stock Stables, etc B—United States and State Exhibits. 11 — Restaurants and Refreshments C — Horticultural —Mexican —Art —Factories and Mills. I—Grand Fountain, eighty feet — Live Stock Arena. K —Saw Mills and Woodworking —Wharf, Mississippi River. The grounds embrace the space of 247 acres, bounded on the northside by St. Charles Avenue, on the south by the Mississippi buildings front east towards the main portion of the city. An electric railway encircles the grounds. The Exposition opens in December, 1884, and closes May 31, 1885. L22 l Lk OF TO III. FIRST WHITE MEN ON IOWA SOIL. The isecond volume of Bancrofts History of America relatesthat on the 10th of Juno l. Marquette, Joliet, flvo otheiFrenchmen, and two Indian guides crossed from the Fox rivertothe Wisconsin, carrying their two canoes. From the Wisconsin thet\v<5 Indians r
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