The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-08-16
ON THE TRAIL.
Passing Over Portion of the Trail of
Lewis & Clark 100 Years Ago.
IT..

Lewis Clark 100 Years Ago.
II.
The river nobly foams and flows
The charm OF this enchanted ground
And all its thousand turns disclose
Some fresher beauty varying round;
The haughtiest breast its wish might
bound
Through life to dwell delighted here;
Nor could on earth spot be found
To Nature and to me so dear,
Gould thy dear eyes in following mine
Still sweeten more these banks of
Rhine"
BYRON
One hundred years ago to-day
Capt. Meriweather Lewis and Capt.
William Clark, whose names will
go down into history as being
among the greatest of the world S
explorers, with their band of faith
full followers, were struggling in
the Rocky Mountains upin Montana
for the purpose of finding some pass
that would lead them toward the
Cascades and from thence to the
Columbia river, on the bosom of
which noble stream they afterwards
glided along to Fort Clatsop on the
Pacific ocean.
To-day out insan Oregon city
Portland-and on ground on which
the feet of the great explorers prob
ably tramped in short journey
up the Willamette river, there is
being conducted an exposition COM
memorative OF the great explorers
and of the discoveries AM of thedeeds
of their party. 1t is the first inter-
national exposition ever held west
of the Rocky Mountains under the
patronage of the United States gov
ernment. Resting on hill aud dale
and on the shores of the park lake
stand buildings and statuary COM
memorative of what occurred 100
years ago, and in the buildings in
dividuals. counties, states and ua-
tions vie with each other in friend
ly competition over the products of
their lands.
Transporting ourselves back 100
years we find here a wilderness in
haoited by the dusky savage COM
ing from whence we know not.
President Jefferson was determined
to have the tract explored and in
Capt. Lewis and Capt Clark he
was certain was to be found the
manhood to carry out the explora-
ton. Through the region where
they were struggling then are now
the happy homes of the white race.
Through that region the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific
railroads run their daily trains.
And in the region through which
they passed in former days to reach
the object of all their ambitions
there are located cities of vast
wealth and magnifcence.
Portland is one of them, and to
Portland has fallen the honor of
conducting the commemorative ex-
position and of entertaining thous-
ands of strangers daily passing in
to her gates. If you have the price
you will be entertained.
The site of the exposition is one
of great beauty. Nature has fur
nished the opportunity for landscape
work and man has retouched nature
as well as architect and artist could
conceive. The main group of build
ings is eight in number and includes
the palaces of agriculture, Europe
an exhibits, liberal arts, oriental
exhibits, forestry, mines and me-
tallurgy, fine arts, machinery and
electricity and transportation. All
of these buildings are. we'll filled
with attractive exhibits. and need
less to say the Pacific is prominent
in all except the oriental building,
where japan, ever active, sways
the banner of commercial progress
and inventive and manufacturing
ingenuity. Across the bridge that