The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-09
PHOTOGRAPHS Of BUTTE
They Will Be Submitted at the
Council Mseting.
TO ADVERTISE THE CITY
h Best From All the Collection VIII
Be- Exhibited ut the Omaha Expo
sition-Montana Fitting
~ Represented.

The photographers OF Butte will to-
day ubmit their photographs to the
Omaha exposition committee OF the city
council. Several photographers have
for the past two weeks been engaged in
taking views of prominent buildings in
Butte. street scenes. etc. and the COM
mittee will meet this afternoon to ex-
anime the various collections submitted
and decide al to which shall be select
ed. The council has appropriated
money to pay for the photographs
which viii be placed on the walls Of the
Butte room in the Montana building at
the exposition. 1t has been desired that
the city Of Butte shall be properly rep
resented at Omaha. The great majority
of people outside Of Montana have an
idea that Butte Is nothing but a rough
mining camp with nothing in II bigger
than a shack. The best way to disabuse
their minds of that notion is to send
photographs to Omaha and let people
see for themselves what the city is like.
The committee. instead of accepting
one entire collection. may accept parts
of the collections Of several photograph
ers. Unless one collection is clearly
superior to all the rest the best Views
VI Notft III ot ant
There is some apprehension that the
war will greatly interfere with the sue
cess OF the Omaha exposition. 1t Is
sincerely hoped that such will not be
the case, for the exposition. IL success
full. cannot fail to be Of great benefit
to the entire West. IL cannot fail to be
of benefit to Montana to have hundreds
of thousands OF people see represented
h of Montana I'm n way that
fs SIRE IN arouse interest and dotihflass
lead to Investment. TIN exposition will
open on une /. The exposition was
originally projected tn display the pro-
ducts. manufactures and industries of
the states west of the Mississippi river.
but the project has expanded until now
30 states and territories have organized
for active participation. The building
and xhibit of the United States gov
eminent la not be as large as those
at the worlds fair. but they will be in
every sense representative n in many
essential features superior. The gov
building is 500 feet long and
$50 feet deep. the height at pinnacle
being us feet. The exhibits of the
Canadian and Mexican governments
and the Central and South American
states will be very complete. The ex-
position will for the first time fully IL
lustrate the wealth producing power
and the extent of productive industries
OF the great West. The grounds in
clude a tract go feet wide and a half
mile long. where the main buildings
are located. together with another large
section on the bluffs of the Missouri.
The grounds are beautifully laid out
and the attractive features include a
beautiful lagoon. Groups of fine shade
trees have been planted and sod and
flowers have been cultivated with much
art.
The principal buildings, eight in num-
Der, stand about the lagoon. In order
az one sails around the lagoon from the
west end are he government. agricul-
ture, administration, mines, machinery.
art. liberal arts and manufactures
buildings. The design of each building
has individual beauty and power. Each
is unique. They are finished In the tint
Of old marble. One of the features viii
he the Indian exhibition under the d.
rection of the United States Indian
commissioner There will be represen-
tatives Of almost all the Indian tribes
of the country. They will pitch their
tents and live their wild life for the
benefit of the multitude. The cowboy
will be there and the wild horse and
other distinctively Western animals
will receive due attention. There will
be a notable exhibit OF machinery and
electrical appliances. Nicola Tesla,
Thomas a. Edison and Prof. Elihu
Thomson have prepared exhibits OF
their latest inventions. There will be
notable representations of the educa-
tional work of the West. Of woman's
field and of the children. There will be
an amusement section" with theaters
of foreign nations. foreign villages. mu-
seums. bazars and various attrac-
tlons. Tn mining exhibit will far sur
pass anything Of the kind seen at for
mer expeditions and Montana Will be
most %fttlngly represented.