Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-10-13
EXPOSITION A BIG SUCCESS
Portland an Interesting City
to Visit.
NUMEROUS SIGHTS TO SEE
The Great Fair Opened September 2s
and will Run Afternoon and Even
ing TO October 2&.

The Oregon Industrial Exposition,
which is now in full blast at Portland,
is the most successful enterprise of its
kind ever held in the Northwest.
Everything about it is on a grand
scale, as we'll it may be, for no ex
pense has been spared to make every
thing connected with it first-class in
every respect. To accomplish this re-
suit it was necessary to invest $12, 200
as starter, and this amount was
quickly forthcoming. The enterprising
business men of Portland went down
into their pockets and produced the
cash, for they recognize the fact that
the fair is a great object-lesson, an
educator, and instructor-an enterprise
that benefits the entire Northwest.
The products of every section of the
Northwest are freely given place in the
exposition at Portland, and the mines,
farms, fields, factories, forests and fish
cries all make a grand showing, and
there are grains and grasses that any
part of the world may be well proud of.
Colonel H. G. Dosch, Col. r. G. Judson
and Louis M. Spiesl have collected to-
gether and have ON exhibition thou.
sands of specimens of grains and grasses
and fruits and vegetables raised in the
Northwest, all of which make splen-
did showing for this rich region.
Among the many things seen at the
exposition in Portland may be men
toned the mining exhibit. Tons of
ore, all showing just where it came
from and it's value is shown, having
been collected by j. P. Marshall, and
there Is reproduction of quartz
mine, with its big timbers, shafts and
tunnels, built by J. F. Batchelder, of
the Portland Railway Co., who is q
practical mining engineer.
In large illuminated cave is COM
plete fish hatchery, in which young SAL
mon may be plainly seen in all stages
of Matching out, and there is a full
grown Royal Chinook salmon always
on exhibition.
There are great many sights to see
at the exposition. The realistic re-
production of Multnomah falls is worth
going miles to enjoy, and it is great
success. The real water, with the
whole of Bull Run river behind it, falls
80 feet; and the rustic bridge is there
for the people to cross, and the sylvan
pools, and ferns and MOSES and big,
live fir trees. The falls are attracting
great crowds and will run all the tims
to the closing, October %.
Portland is a very attractive city to
visit, and it has such splendid street
car system that the stranger can see
the business section, the attractive
homes and the splendid suburbs all on
single cent fare, while comfortably
seated in open electric cars. Two car
lines pass the door of the great exposi-
tion building, in which the great fair
of the Northwest is held-the City &
Suburban line and the Washington
street line-and all the stranger has to
do is to take car which is plainly
marked, Direct to the Exposition"
The war museum, which is under
the direct supervision of Captain E. 8.
Edwards, Colonel D. M. Dunno and
General o. Summers, is a. grand sight
to see. It was the carrying out of
brilliant idea suggested by Dan Nc.
Allen, one of Portland's s most patriotic
and enterprising business men, and IL
will be the means of adding many dol
lars to the fund being raised to the
Oregon volunteers who lost their lives
during the recent wars.
The immense exposition building at
Portland has been vastly improved in
every part of its interior, and is gay
with flags and bunting, and at night
presents a scene of splendor rarely
equalled. 1t has 8, 500 electric lights,
and presents a picture to be long re-
mem heyed