The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-02-28
EXPOSITION BUILDINGS
ARE NOW COMPLETED
Remarkable Progress Being made ON
the Structures for the Alaska
Yukon Pacific Fair.

SEATTLE, Feb. 20 If the pres
ent rate of progress be maintained,
and there Is no intention that 1t shall
be otherwise, the Alaska-Yukon-Pa-
cific exposition can be opened. COM
plete in every detail, by May l, one
month in advance of the day fixed
by the directors of Seattle's very
biggest event.
With the exception of the govern
ment and Canadian buildings, all of
the principal structures of the expo
sition are completed and ready for
the installation of exhibits. The Ag-
riculture and Manufactures palaces
have been finished for months. The
magnificent auditorium is ready for
use, with its thousands of seats in
place. The fine arts palace is ready
to receive the art treasures which
will crowd 1t during the fair and the
machinery building was long ago
added to the completed list. The for
estry building. which with its essen
tial construction of unsawed fir logs,
is not complete, but Is SO far along
that a clear idea of its imposing pro-
portions Is to be had. All four of
these last named buildings are per-
manent structures which will revert
to the University of Washington at
the end of the big fair.
OF the four government buildings
that for the Philippines is the far
thest advanced, although all of the
others are going up so rapidly that
their growth is evident over night.
Oregon was first to complete a
state building and California made a
close second. Both buildings are re-
markable for their beauty, the COM
missioners from both states having
been lavish in their expenditures for
agricultural elegance. So well along
with its work is Oregon, in fact, that
its exhibit is already being installed
and a full fiedged cold storage plant
in the basement is keeping fresh
tons upon tons of Oregon fruits
which are to be made part of the
sister states show.
Spokane is hard at work on a
building which will cost $4,000 and
be quite in accord with the general
scheme of exposition architecture
Yakima has something like $4,000
to spend on exhibit and building and
is just as hard at work. King coun-
ty is pushing it's handsome structure
/ to a finish and the state building,
which is another of the permanent
structures. is making as rapid prog
ress.
All of the other counties are hur-
rying their work and no delay is ex-
pected on account of any of them.
William Hutchinson, commissioner
of expositions for the Dominion oil
Canada, has recently arrived from
London, where he had charge oil
Canada's exhibit at the Franco-Brit
ish exposition, just closed. The same
exhibit is now en- route to Seattle
and Canada's handsome building will
be ready for 1t when 1t arrives. The
dominion appropriated 100000 fol-
building and exhibit and as the ex-
pense of collecting the exhibit has
already been cared for, the major
portion of the appropriation is going
into the building. Commissioner
Hutchinson will remain in Seattle
| during the construction of the build.
ing and for the greater part of the
exposition period.
Besides the Dominion exhibit. Brit
ish Columbia is expected shortly to
begin work on its exhibit and Alder
ia, Saskatchewan and Yukon are al
ready busy. All told the expenditure
of the Dominion and it's provinces
will not fall far short of half mil
lion dollars.
Massachusetts, has made its appro-
&c cd mill
arrive very soon to remain through