Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-09-10
The County Exhibits.

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ties. have splendid exhibits that show
! in favorable way the vast and var
led resources of those counties.
Most of these exhibits were in place
Sunday night and the exhibit from
| Douglas came in on last nights
train, have been moved intact from
the district fair.
The exhibit from Benton county
consists largely of grain. grasses,
walnuts, hops, fruit in all the variety
and excellence that the Willamette
valley furnishes. This exhibit is
under the direction of H. l.. French.
Linn county has a fine department
which is displayed by E. c. Roberts
and w. A. Eastburn and contains one
of the finest display of cereals ever
exhibited.
w. A. Taylor has charge of the
4, Marion county exhibit, which is one
of the best and largest at the fair.
1t contains vast variety of pro-
ducts and the display of grains and
grasses, hops and fruits is seldom
surpassed anywhere
Far off, Jackson county has one OF
the most attractive exhibits at the
fair and the display of Rogue river
fruit and grain is enough to make
that region famous.
+. H. Flagg has charge of the Co
lumbia county exhibit and no county
ever displayed a fine lot of fruit,
grain, vegetables and grasses than is
shown here Timber, one of the lead
ing products of Columbia was omit
ted because Mr.. Flagg desired to
show especially the great variety OF
Columbia's productions,
The Oregon state fair never had a
better or more attractive department
of women's work. This department
is under the management of Mrs
Savage and contains some of the
best specimens of handiwork that
was ever displayed in the state, not
excepting the Lewis and Clark expo
sition.
The art department, near by in the
pavilion, is under the able direction
= of Mrs. Virgins and is the best ever
exhibited at Portland. The art
gallery is arranged differently from
any previous occasion and is lighted
exclusively by electricity as on
was not arranged to give perfect sat
isfaction. Many of the best painC-
ings in Oregon, belonging to private
collections and individuals have
been obtained for this exhibit.
The New Auditorium.
The auditorium has been enlarged
new seating arrangements added and
is in. much better shape than ever
before 1t is said that its acoustic
properties are much better than
formerly.
The flower garden in the main pa
vilion is one of the attractive cor
ners and is always visited as soon
as noticed. Some of the most beau
tiful and most rare flowers and
plants in the state are shown and
the wonderfully adaptibility of Ore
gon for flowers is shown.
The remainder of the pavilion Is
taken up with private exhibits and
exhibition of firms and business
houses. Some of the leading firms
of the state have splendid exhibits
and every inch of available space is
occpied. Buren and Hamilton are
on this floor and Fuller and Douglas
and "The Spa" have good exhibits.
The Yokohama Tea company is well
represented and in music houses,
George c. VIII, The Allen and Gil
bert-Ramaker company and the
Eilers Piano House have large and
creditable displays. The Capital
Business college is also in the main
building.
Three individual farm exhibits are
in the pavilion and are attracting
much attention.
In spite of assurances that every
thing would be complete this morn
ing, small army OF men and wom-
en- are at work and IT will be Tues
day morning before the entire fair
is absolutely complete.
Among the good exhibits In the
main building are the harness dis
plays OF Z. l.. Lambert and the taxe-
dermy exhibit of w. II. Edwards and
the big show OF the Portland Flour
ing mills.
The mining display is not credit
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