The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-03-07
THE PERMANENT EXPOSITION.
AN APPEAL TO OREGON AND THE RES
PENNSYLVANIA EXHIBITS.

Our readers ale, perhaps, all aware
that at the close of the great Centen-
NAL Exposition. at Philadelphia, in
1876, Permanent International Ex.
hibition was inaugurated in Phila-
delphia, and suitable buildings pro-
cured for the same at enormous ex-
pense. The officers of the Perma
nent Exhibition are j. A. Paxson.
Prest; Horace J. Smith, Asst to the
President;. p. Curren Chief Clerk
and Sup't of Exhibits. Under date
Of Philadelphia, Feb. 6, 1879, we re-
ceived letter from Mr.. Horace J.
Smith, enclosing the following neat
testimonial Of Gregon's exhibit, and
for which the people Of Oregon are
indebted, mainly, to the untiring Ia
Dor of Hon. A. J. Dufur. The no.
tice is from the North An1ealcuse, and
is handsome tribute to our Young
State:
A few days ago Hon. A. J. Dufur, from
Oregon, received Il letter from j. A. Paxton
President of the Permanent International
Exhibition. referring to the admirable ex-
hibit made by the State of Oregon at the
Centennial Exposition-an exhibition that
reevaled, to the surprise of every one, Mr..
Paxton said, the remarkable agricultural
productiveness of the State, the exceptional
mineral wealth of the land, and the high
social culture of the people. This credita-
BILE display is now in the Permanent Exposi-
tion Building, and Mr.. Paxton suggests in
the letter that it would be to the advantage
OF the citizens of Oregon who have land fer
sale, and whose interests need to be vital
lied by capital, that this too meagre collec-
ton of objects be enriched by suincient ad,
ditions to make it worthy of their great
State. Mr.. Paxton then spoke of the splen-
did building in which the objects were dis
played, and the exhibits as collection,
which is the result OF enthusiastic and un-
paid labor, and when, if it were once dis
persed, could never be re collected, trans
ported and placed. Mr.. Paxton ended by
saying that he hoped and expected the at
tendance this year to almost doable the
29T, 600 of last year. In his response Mr.
Dufur said: Il entirely agree with yon in
all that you have said as to the splendor and
attractiveness of the old Main Building of
the Centennial but you do not lay enough
stress upon the great educational merit OF
this unequalied object school. l will try on
my return to Oregon to explain to my fel-
low-citizens the many plans you have SO
well conceived. l intend that my grand
SON, - the letter continued, ''shall be sent
to Philadelphia to be educated, solely that
he may have the privileges of such a practi-
cal course of education as this Exhibition,
and this alone, affords. | shall also promote
to my utmost ability a further display of
Oregonian products" Meantime Mr.. Pax
ton recognizes that Pennsylvania is very
poorly represented in her own Exhibition,
and to supply i'll q measure this palpable
want, he has addressed a letter to Mr.. L. S,
Edge, secretary of the State Board of Agri-
culture, asking his cooperation in having
Pennsylvania represented as it should be in
the Exhibition. In the letter he says \
8! The high rank the State holds for fertiIi-
ty, the value of her agricultural products,
as well as her richness i'll all the potential
elements of wealth and the extent and vari-
ETY. of her industries, entitle her to a promi-
nent place in the present Exposition, but
instead of that, she is at present conspicu-
Gus by her absence"