The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-08
ADVERTISING ANACONDA
This City Will Be in Evidence at
the Omaha Exposition.
PHOTOGRAPHS AND VIEWS
Assistant Commissioner Curtis Wants
Anaconda to Have Her Picture
Taken and Put on Exhibition.
Chance for Camera Club.

L. w. Curtis. assistant to Commits
sioner w. H.. Sutherlin of the rams
Mississippi International exposition. is
i'm the city on business connected with
the great fair. MI. Curtis comes on a
mission, which, If carried out, will re-
suit in the greatest piece of advertising
tina Anaconda could possibly secure.
1t has been suggested to Mr.. Curtis
that a Photographic display of views
taken in all of Montana's cities would
be a great thing, and with the prompt
ness of a person looking for features.
Mr.. Curtis has taken The matter up
and his visit to Anaconda has the ar
ranging of the photograph feature for
its object.
Mr.. Curtis spent yesterday in arous-
ing the interest of the city aldermen i'm
his plans and met with most fiattering
success. He was assured by all of the
councilmen that were seen that his
project met with their hearty indorse-
ment. He was given assurance that
the matter would be brought up at next
Mondays nights council meeting and
that some defini plan of prompt ac-
ton would be outlined. The aldermen
took the same view of The matter that
Mr.. Curtis does-that the scheme will
result in Unreasonable benefit to the
Sitys ~ III uispldy W HI NioitbfS at
h big fair the of one of
the undesirable states" it will call
their attention to the fact hat Mon
tana's cities are really cities and not "A
collection of shacks and tents as some
of the people in the East suppose: it
will show that, young as this common
wealth Is, there are here buildings, both
public and private. hat would not be
ou of place in the pretentious centers
of population east of the Mississippi
river.
The plan of Mr.. Curtis is to have the
council take up the matter and lend its
Endorsement and assistance in secur-
ing photographs of A~naconda's build
ings, manufactures, institutions. points
of interest, etc. In this city Mr.. Curtis
finds a most satisfactory field in this
line. A few suggestions that come to
mind are photographs of the city hall,
the library building. the Montana no
tel, the public schools, the handsome
business blocks, private residences, the
race track, the smelling works, the
foundry department n hundreds of
other buildings, points of interest n
scenes hat would make a most appro-
PIRATE exhibit.
Mr.. Curtis has arranged with one IF
the photographers n trainers N This
city to arrange the pictures in groups
and place them in big frames. They
will be hung upon the walls of the
Montana state building at the fair and
will be one of the principal features nf
Montana's excellent xhib Mr.. Cur
tbs says that the space at hand is
ample for the accommodation of any
number of photographs and hat pri-
waite parties having photographs such
as would be suitable for the purpose
are requested to make the fact known.
The photographs will be handled with
s%crupulous care and will be returned
to their owners when the exposition is
over.
The plan of a Photographic exhibit is
one that offers an opportunity to the
newly organized Gamers club that could
be profitably take up. Some of the
members of the club already have pro-
tographs of points of interest, both in
the city and in the hills surrounding It.
These would be most acceptable to the
fair commissioners. An opening of this
kind should stimulate the picture
takers to securing the hills and val
leys for scenes and views, and hundreds
could be secured that would be both
unique and interesting. Besides assist
ing the commissioners in obtaining the
Photographs, the Camera club members
would be putting a feather in their
own cap by bestirring themselves in
this work.
Mr.. Curtis reports that the Montana
exhibit at the omaha exposition will
be Infinitely superior to that which was
sent to the worlds fair. Mr.. Curtis
has been assigned especially to the
gathering of the mineral portion of the
display and he reports that he has met
with a most gratifying success his eff
forts. He Gays that the mine owners
and managers have been very cour-
teous and considerate in assisting him
in the work, and that as a result Mon
tana will have a very complete exhibit
of minerals. Thirty tons of the speci-
mems ave already been shipped to
Omaha. M it is expected that the. en-
tire display will be on the grounds by
May Is, which will give the commits
Is days in which to place it in
Among the specimens already
sent Is the two and one-half ton piece
Of copper ore, ~ per cent copper re-
Gently taken from the Neversweat mine
at Butte. 1t will occupy a prominent
position in the state building and is ex-
pected to attract more attention than
of the kin ever shown. Be-
the minerals there will be an
elaborate display of Montana-grown
fruit and other things that are expected
to cause the people who regard This
as a wilderness TO stare i'm as
Mr.. Curtis will go to Butte
to-day to complete h accumulation of
his mineral specimens.