Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-08-16
OVER A MILLION HAVE
SEN PORTLAND FAIR
First Two Months Broke the Record
Of the Omaha Exposition by More
Than so Per cent.-Attendance
From June I to August 2 Was
t,013,55t.

Special Correspondence.
, Portland, Ore, August 12.--Gate ad-
missions at the Lewis & Clark expo
sition reached and passed the million
mark last week, and are now climbing
rapidly up toward the second million.
There were 27.420 admissions August
p. and when these were added to the
aggregate since opening day. June 1,
II was found that the turnstiles had
recorded, In two months and two days.
1,013.551 admissions.
These figures are very gratifying to
the admissions department, TO the
other administration officials and to
the people Of Portland and the Pacific
Northwest, The attendance is on
siderably beyond expectations. BY
weeks. up to to and including August
2. the day when the first million was
nassed, the admissions have been as
follows:
June | to Z, inclusive. ........ 80, 275
June s to IA, inclusive. ....... 100, 7o4
June Is to 81. inclusive. ...... 1882
June % to 28. inclusive. ...... S9,yi6
June 20 to July b~.inclusive. ..ttl,415
July s to IL, inclusive. III, 534
July IA to 10. inclusive. $3.50. 1887
July 20 to &c. inclusive. ..... .131 1884
july q to August 2, inclusive. 1862
The extra attendance for the week
from June 20 to july 5 was due to the
large number Of admissions on the
Fourth Of July. Since then. as a per-
usal OF the figures shows. the attend
ance has increased constantly.
The Trans Mississippi exposition at
Omaha In 1898. which was about the
size OF the Portland enterprise, may
be used as a basis Of comparison I'm
attendance. The official record shows
that during the first two months OF the
Omaha fair the admissions were Gill;.
035. Portland's figures. official and
verified. show a total Of 97S,O17 for the
first two months. Thus we find that
the Lewis Il Clark exposition attend
ance for the first two months had ex-
ceeded that Of the Omaha ENTERPRISE
by 366.9s2, or considerably more than
% per cent. Moreover, let 1t be taken
into consideration that within a radius
OF 500 miles of Omaha there were
$4,000 600 people approximately, while
within a like radius Of Portland there
are moi more than i.S00. 900 people.
The Pan-American exposition at Buff
falo, in 1901. with a population of
10000 900 within the 50o.mile radius,
had an attendance of l.203.2 1886 during
the first two months. This is only
about % per cent In excess of the Port.
land figures. Portland and Omaha
have approximately the same number
of inhabitants, while Buffalo Is several
times as large as the Lewis a. CLARK
city.
L. h. Dawson. chief of the depart
ment of admissions at Portland. who
has had exnerience in the same
department al several expositions. tx
presses The b. 'ief that the Lewis and
Clark fair will run Omaha a close
race and in all probability will win
out in the total attendance, though at
omaha the exposition was open five
fun months. while the present enter.
rrise is 10 be open but four and a
half months. Omaha's total attend
anee vas 2.6i3,50S.
Mr.. Dawson expects a considerable
increase in the attendance after the
| wheat farmers Of the Inland Empire
| shall have finished their harvesting
] and the hop grower of Oregon and