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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION, UTAH Shaft of a Mexican Mine. (Prepared by the National Oeoirraphla ciety. WauhlnBton, l. C.) I greet you at the bea of great career, from Emerginning son spread upon the backstrip is fully displayed, as are the various quaint bindings of the Third Edition. Accompanying Passage to India, is the original manuscript. This poem was, as he said, that which expressed his deepest self. The Osgood Edition of 1881-2- , which caused such a furor because of threatened legal well-know- n blind-toole- d prosecution, is shown, as well as the Rees, Welsh Edition, which paid the author the largest royalty checks of his A rarely seen volume is career. Memoranda During the War, of which less than one hundred copies were printed. The edition which Whitman himself thought his most handsome one was the autographed Pocket-booEdition of 1889. But ten years after his death in 1892 his collected works were published de luxe by Putnam in ten highly illustrated volumes. The Deathbed Edition was hastily bound for Whitman just before his death in order that he might make a farewell present tto his friends. The display of editions closes with the latest, Issued a year ago, the Inclusive Edition. The committee on sculpture Includes Prof. George S. Heilman, chairman, and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, Aymar Embury, Otto H. Kahn, Charles De Kay, Guy Egleston and Prof. Emory Holloway, chairman of the Walt Whitman Memorial committee. Professor Heilman has this to say about the selection of Mr. Davidsons model for the memorial: No formal competition was held, but designs were submitted by six sculptors, who requested that their At the recent works be considered. meeting of the sculpture committee k drivers, whoso vernacular Is wonder- and effective. worlds fully expressiveIs a city rich in hisGuanajuato gold mine has been toric In Its mines, In its natrecord, recently in Mexico, even ural beauty, and in Its architecture. If literally true, would add only To describe, een briefly, the many minof a chapter to Mexicos volume things of Interest would occupy more ing history. Under Spanish domination the country poured out a seem- space than could be given to this hut mention must be made ingly inexhaustible stream of wealth, article; of a few. disncute and save during political El Teatro Juarez faces the plaza in turbances, the flow has continued the center of the city. It Is an Imsince. Cecil Rhodes, who knew someposing pile, perhaps out of keeping thing of the mineral wealth of the with Its surroundings; but Guanaof Mexico that world, prophesied from her hidden vaults, her sub- juato is a city wherein the picturirterranean treasure houses, will come esque and strictly practical are dethe gold, silver, copper, and precious reconcilably mixed together. The stones that will build the empires sign Is modern and highly decorative, of tomorrow and make future cities built of the local green tuff and sandThe superb portico with Its of this world veritable new Jerusal- stone. eight bronze figures, Is borne on 12 ems. Ionic pillars; the imposing steps with Guanajuato has been the great treasure chest of Mexico. Its huge stately flambeau, the wrought-irothe supply of silver was first tapped 68 grille work, the spacious foyer, years before the Pilgrims landed In richly decorated interior by Ilerrara Plymouth, and by 1557 the wonder- are truly magnificent. ful mother lode, the Veta Mndre, had 'Cradle of Liberty. been found. Bnron von Humboldt, The Alliondigu de Granadltas (priswriting at the beginning of the Eight- on) is as constantly full as the theater eenth century, asserted that Guana- is empty. It is one of the most hisof the total toric juato had yielded of the republic, and amount of silver then current in the will buildingsbe remembered ns the always world. place the first blow was struck for The actual mint and government the liberation of Mexico from Spanish records show a production of gold and rule. At each corner is a lurge hook silver from the Veta Madre In ex- from which, In the days of the cess of one billion dollars. But we for Independence, were hung struggle are traveling too fast; let us halt four Iron cages containing the heads to get our bearings and locate this of the great liberators the patriot Eldorado on the map, then rest Hidalgo, his military chief, awhile and enjoy that which It has to priest, Allende, and his comrades, 'Aldama offer. and Jimenez. Here they hung for The state of Guanajuato Is In the years until removed by a worshiping part of the Republic of nation to the altar of kings in the Mexico. The estimated population is cathedral In the city of Mexico. After It is the most important the Grlto de Dolores and the first 1,100,000. mercantile center In the country, the ringing of the bell of independence, total trade being valued nt $07,000,000 lildulgo and his followers moved on The leading industries to Guanajuato, per annum. stormed the imare mining, agriculture, and cattle of fortress Alhondiga, and provised raising. killed all the Spanish troops that had The city of Guanajuato, capital of taken refuge there. This was the bethe state, Is picturesquely situated, ginning of the eleven years war of Innestling in a small basin, surrounded dependence. on all sides by the Sierra de GuanaOn the summit of the Cerro del juato. The Canada de Marfll affords a Trozada, to the west of the city, Is pass to the city through the cordon the Iantheon. The four high walls of hills from the fertile valley lands surrounding the cemetery consist of of Silac, a station on the line of the vaults, tier upon tier, in which the Mexican Central railroad, 14 miles to remains of the dead are placed pro the west The railroad grade from tern, or in perpetuity, according to the Silao rises rapidly following the the ability of the surviving relatives tortuous course of the Rio de Guana- to pay the rent. For a small fee the juato to an elevation of 7,000 feet, attendant will admit the visitor to where, poised high in the Cordilleran the chamber of horrors. A winding plateau, is this historic city of 40,000 stair leads to the crypt, where ghastpeople because of the revolt and ly, mummified remains are placed In brigandage of recent years a wasted a ghostly row. shadow of its former greatness. The raining history of Guanajuato Scenes in Guanajuato. vies with that of the Nevada camps In the soft sunshine of summer of our days, only that Instead of the mushroom days the first vista of the city Is strik- unsubstantial growth, THE ue and Jo Davidson has been commissioned to make it. Anyone who feels so inclined can contribute to the cost. Shut not your doors to me, proud libraries ! wrote Whitman in one of his poems. Libraries have been known to do that. And now comes forward the New York Public library with an exhibition of Whitmania in aid of the statue project it is the first time any library has honored the poet with a special exhibition. The Whitmania consists of books, editions of all sorts, translations into foreign languages, newspapers and magazines to which he contributed, manuscripts, paintings, busts, caricatures, books about him and a great variety of other material illustrative of the life and work of New Yorks greatest poet. The exhibition has been assembled and arranged by Alfred Goldsmith, the Whitman biographer. The editions on view are thus summarized: "Here is shown Franklin Evans, Whitmans first volume, a puerile temperance melodrama. Seven copies of the famous First Edition of Leaves of Grass. The Second Edition with the So- report that the n of Walt Whitmans verse, both In respect to Its subject matter and his mode of treatment of It, that so astonished, when It did not repel his readers. He boldly stripped away everything conventional and artificial from man clothes, custom, Institutions, etc. and treated him as he Is, primarily, In and of himself and in his relation to the universe; and with equal boldness he stripped away what were to him the artificial adjuncts of poetry rhyme, measure and all the hillock, suggesting an open road. On stock language and forms of the the ground in front of the statue he schools and planted ofhimself uponanda language rhythm visualizes a big stone slab upon which spontaneous the Inherently poetic In the common would be set in bronze the first stanza and universal. of The Song of the Open Road. When was born ) Walt Whitman completed the statue will be In bronze on in was educated and Island Long and of heroic size, probably ten feet New York and of schools the public or more in height. was Here are lines from The Song of Brooklyn. On his fathers sido he Holside on his and mothers the Open Road, which show that Mr. English grandmothDavidsons idea for a statue Is a land Dutch. Ills maternallearned He a was er printQuakeress. happy one: ing and carpentering and also taught d I take to the school. He Afoot and began his writing in 1841 open road, stories. Next he conventional with Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me lead- was editor of the Brooklyn Eagle. After a leisurely tour of Middle West ing wherever I choose. Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I and Southern states he joined the staff of the New Orleans Crescent A little myself am Henceforth I whimper no more, post- later he established in Brooklyn the pone no more, need nothing. a short-liveorgan of the Done with Indoor complaints, libraries, Freeman, 1851 to 1854 he From querulous criticisms. Strong and content I travel the open was busied with building and selling road. houses. And In 1855 appeared Leaves From this hour I ordain myself loosed of Grass, for which he set most of the type himself. Leading citizens, of limits and Imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master preachers, lecturers and the general total and absolute, combined In denouncing him as Listening to others, considering well public abandoned voluptua revolutionary, what they say. Pausing, searching, receiving, contem- ary, unredeemed pagan, plating, literary charlatan and so on. As Gently, but with undeniable will, di- late at 1881 the Massachusetts auvesting myself of the holds that thorities objected to its sale on the would hold me. I Inhale great, great draughts of ground that it was immoral. space, From 1802 to 1865 Whitman was a The east and the west are mine, and the north and the south are mine. volunteer war nurse in the army hospitals of Washington; it is said that Camerado, I give you my hand! more he visited and administered to 100,000 than love I give you my precious money, sick and wounded, Union and ConfedI give you myself before preaching or erate. Out of these experiences came law: Will you give me yourself? Will you Drum Taps (1865) and other volumes. Ills labors as a nurse brought come travel with me? Shall we atick by each other as long on a serious Illness from which he as we live? never recovered. In 1865 he was given Foreigners Insist that It was Walt a clerkship in the Interior department, Whitman who put us on the literary but was discharged by the secretary, map and keeps us there. However who objected to the Adamic pasthat may be, John Burroughs prob- sages In Leaves of Grass. He was ably expressed the American view- given a new place under the attorney point of a generation ago pretty general and held It until a stroke of closely when he wrote this: paralysis In 1873 compelled his rewent to Camden, N. J., Who goes there? hankering, gross, tirement. lie he till his death, March lived where hankering like the mystical, nude, 20, 1892. great elk In the forest at springtime; gross as unhoused nature Is gross; Walt Whitman, anticipating abusive mystical as asBoehme or Swedenborg; the concealments and criticism, said he was willing to wait and so far disguises of the conventional man, and to be understood by the growth of the the usual adornments of polite verse, taste of himself. Is the long wait are concerned, as nude as Adam in Paradise. Indeed, It was the nudity over? Mr. Davidsons design was declared the most fitting and arrangements were begun with him looking to the completion of the work. Mr. Davidson took as his theme Whitmans Song of the Open Road the long, brown path before me leading wherever I choose. His idea is to have the statue raised slightly above Its surroundings on a sort of (1819-1892- light-hearte- good-fortun- e, d Free-Soiler- s. free-thinke- r, one-fift- south-centr- h al ing, Indeed. Churches of magnificent ancient and modern architecture strangely blended in the same edifice; stately buildings; imposing markets ; stores of all descriptions; and dwelling places, rudely bare, variously colored with neutral tints of calsomine, their grated windows and open doors exhibiting to all the sparsely furnished interior, where bird, beast, and human eat and live together. The sordid squalor of the many contrasts strikingly with the oppressive opulence of the few. The cobblestone streets are crooked and narrow; so narrow. In fact, that caballeros must take to the sidewalk to permit of the passing of any kind of vehicle. The dingy tram-car- s are drawn by relays of mules, three abreast, beaten Into subjection by the stinging lash or coaxed into action by the curses of the youthful proportions ; typifying the American mining booms, permanent and lasting monuments were raised, and remain as mute though eloquent testimony of former industry and wealth. In the year 1600 there were 4,000 men at work along the mother lode. A few years later the Sierra vein system was found. The deepest shaft on the mother lode, until very recent years, was the Tiro General at the Valenciana mine. It was sunk by Obregon at a cost of 1,000,000 pesos, but the bonanza It uncovered yielded over three hundred times Its cost It is 1,807 feet deep, 32 feet In diameter, octagonal in section, and lined with solid la masonry for the first 100 feet striking contrast to our modem shafts, not a stick of timber was used to support the walls. Hoisting was accomplished by mule power. |