Arizona republican., 1904-09-04

is highly pleased with the encourage ment it is meeting everywhere. MT. Marshall is greatly enthused
 over his work and says it is to be not
 merely an Oregon show but the
 worlds fair of the west" He is fully convinced and uses strong arguments
 to prove that the exposition will prove
 equally as interesting as the St. Louis fair and vastly more beneficial to the , western states. His idea is that at St. Louis one sees the exhibits only from the west, while those who go to Port
 land will not only see the exhibits but
 pass through the country they come
 from, and naturally many will be enough interested to take advantage of lay over permits which will be liberal, and make further Investigations. He says the raiload ates cannot in jus tice to the St. Louis fair be announced until after it has closed. However, the
 railroad representatives have met at Chicago and agreed on maximum 1ate
 from that city to Portland and return, of fifty dollars After the St. Louis fair they will meet again to make eX- cursion rates and arrange lay over per-
 mits.
 The fair, says MT. Marshall, will con- | tain all the best features of the St. Louis show and the grounds will em- brace 405 acres, nearly half as much | as the worlds fair which is admitted | ly too much spread out. The national government has appropriated $475,000, the state of Oregon $450, ,O00, and the l people of Oregon have subscribed per sonally, s429,000 in aid of the big fair. | In addition the federal government | has authorized the minting of 250O0O | gold dollars to be sold as souvenirs at | two dollars a piece, the profits to be ! turned over to the fair management. | That assures a good revenue to start with.
 l There is a beautiful lake on the fair | grounds and on a peninsula jutting into it. will be the buildings for the ex- | hibit of the federal government that will be taken direct from St. Louis. | All the western states that have been
 canvassed so far have agreed to send
 their St. Louis exhibit to Portland and Ieplenish it with new exhibits to take | the place of the perishable stuff. Most | of the western states have signified | their intention of erecting state build l ingS and it is desirable that Arizona | should do so but if she does not there | IS ample room for exhibits in the large buildings now being erected by the | fair management. Many of the for | eign governments have agreed to send their St. Louis exhibits direct to Port | land and others are asking for space and sending representatives to look over the field. The most clamorous,
 he says, are the Japs who are about as hard to hold down in Portland as they are in Manchuria. They want every thing and will take all the space they can get. British India, Ceylon, Mex
 ico and other governments on both sides of the Pacific are arranging for
 big displays.
 The same man who had charge of the concessions at Omaha, Buffalo and who Is now in charge at St. Louis, has
 been employed to act in similar ca
 pacity at Portland. The fair will open
 June 1, 1905, and last till October 15
 MT. Marshall also lays stress on the
 superiority of the Oregon climate for
 the pleasure of summer visitors.
 His purpose here is to arouse enthus-
 iasm enough in Arizona to insure the
 sending of a good exhibit. He suggests
 that the St. Louis exhibit can be taken
 there for probably the same expense it
 can be brought home and other things
 may be added next year. He saw Gov
 ernor Brodie yesterday and felt great
 ly encouraged with his interview, the
 governor telling him that he would lay
 the matter before the legislature
 When 1t was suggested that Arizona
 was a little sore over the poor dis
 play reported from St. Louis, Mir. Mar
 shall said that ought not to be dis couraging. He said that in every state
 he had visited, the home people who went to the fair brought back dis cOuraging reports of their own exhibit
 and praised all the others. He said
 Montana even was kicking at her min-
 eral display and praising Arizona, the
 point being that every person with a knowledge of home conditions, realizes
 how small a showing of the great
 whole can possibly be made at a fair,
 beside the fact that they are not inn
 pressed by familiar things as they are
 by the new and novel from other places.