Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-06-16
TO BE BUILT FOR Sl4, ,945.
Contract Let for the Construction OF the Mon
tsna Building at Chicago.

sioner for Montana to the Worlds
Fair, went 10 Chicago recently, in COM
pany with Architect j. i. Galbraith.
to receive bids for the construction of
the state building. A telegram received
from him yesterday said the contract
had been let for the erection OF the
Montana building at the fair, SI4 ,9I5.
The building is to be completed by
September 1st. DIR. Mitchell did not
say in his telegram to whom the con-
tract had been awarded. Thecontract
price is within S55 OF the limit OF Sl5.-
600 allowed for the construction of
the building. The Montana building
as designed, covers an area of sixty
four feet one way and 124 the other.
1t will contain suites of parlors and
reception rooms, Offices, vestibule,
lobby. corridor. main exhibit gallery
and other galleries, and other neces-
sary rooms. The main exhibit hall
! is to be forty-three feet wide and fifty
two feet long. The ceilings will be six
teen feet in height. The entire build
ing Is so constructed as to conform
| to the character OF the other
| buildings now in course of erection,
| using the same material for the eXte-
| rior, ornamentation and coverings as
is required by the board OF Worlds
| FAIR managers at Chicago. The mate
| rial Is calle1 staff, manufactured, mod
eled and moulded on the ground, at
] the buildings, so as to conform to the
I different architects designs, and is
used for its beauty and durability.
The construction general will consist
OF heavy framing, mortised, tenoned,
iron strapped, pinned and bolted to-
gether, estimated to carry 300 pounds
to the square foot. The skyIight or
| dome opening over the exhibit hall
and gallery will be constructed OF light
iron, the dome space glazed with orna-
mented, tluted and colored glass. The
skylight Is not only pleasing feature
to theeNhibit hall, but furnishes album
| dance of light to the interior and thor
oughly ventilates the exhibit hall and
gallery.
The octagon dome over the main
entrance lobby will be constructed OF
iron, glazed with colored and tluted
glass. This dome lends n pleasing
|
ventilates this part of the building,
and arises to tile height of forty feet
The entire roof OF the building will Ice
covered with beaded tin. All the ex-
terror will he painted i'll tints and gil'l-
eel to suit he style OF arch tecture.
The interior of the building will be
furnished throughout in native woods,
| using hard pine and tamarack alter
| nately. All this interior wood finish
ing will done in oil, polishing and
| bringing out the natural grains OF the
| natural woods. The main entrance
to the vestibule and lobby will have
paneled walls and ceilings, inlaid with
encaustic tile and beveled plate mir
rors. The floors of the vestibule and
lobby will be of black and white mar
BILE laid in cement. The parlors, recep-
tfon rooms and offices will be paneled
wainscot high, neatly capped on all
sides, and all the openings will be cased
with heavy moulded and carved cas-
ings. The doors throughout will he
moulded and neatly paneled. The
glass in all the windows will be pivoted
top and bottom. The transoms will he
pivoted, and operated with lifts. The
mantels and fireplaces in the parlors
and reception rooms will be fitted up
with nickel plated festoons, paneled
and carved, and set with French plate
beveled mirrors. These reception
rooms, Offices and parlors will have
plastered walls and ceilings, drawn
work, painted and ornamented in
tints, and will also have heavy mould
ed cornices extending clear rounda
the room.
Theexhibit gallery will have plaster
ed walls, painted drawn work, plain
wainscoting on all sides neatly capped
and moulded and plain wood ceilings
neatly moulded. The gallery ratings
will have spiral turned balusters, and
posts and moulded railings. with iron
top rail spiked. The main staircase
leading to the gallery will have boxed,
carved and built newels, supplied with
statuary and electric lights. Thieves
tibules, corridors rotunda, ,parlors and
reception halls will each have paneled
wall spaces for each county in the
state, sixteen in all, for the purpose
OF recording historical events, etc.
, Nothing is being left undone by the
state board of managers to have Mon
, tana well represented at the fair. The
mineral exhibit is receiving consider
able attention Just now. The efforts
> OF Executive Commissioner Bickford
|
u duce good results in this direction
e Everybody having a collection OF min
J. erals has been invited to send them to
II Helena during thsSomins nsconventions
l., The railroads centering here hav,
!, agreed to transport these collections
!, free, and on arrival here they will bs
placed in the basement of the new
library building. When the time ar
, rives for sending the ex hibit to Chicago,
d the board OF Worlds Fair managers
1 will select the collections which are to
e go and have them forwarded. Theii
II segregation Will not be in the least 8
e local enterprise, since the exhibition
!. will be an excellent opportunity &c
show visitors the resources OF all part'
of the state. 1t will also serve to Civ,
, the board a better opportunity
through comparison, to select the very
= best.
d Another excellent scheme which i,
Ie now under way is to secure a iull agri
cultural exhibit at the Montana stat
fair. From this the board can max,
selections OF some OF the finest prod
ucts of the soil grown in any state o
the union.
2, The Montana building at Chicago
= should all parts OF the state respond
is expected to be one of the most at
tractive at the fair. Leading in mining
d fast developing in agriculture, without
e a peer in stock raising, and second Il
e none in education, it would be surpris
a ing If she didn't.