Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-08-10
ASTORIANS FAST COMPLETING
ARRANGEMENTS FOR Their
Centennial.
Celebration Extends Over 80 Days, Be-
ginning August 10-Harbor IL Miles
Long to Be Used for Aquatic Dis
plays-Many Distinguished Speakers
and Business Men to Take Part.

Astoria, Ore What are we going
to have to amuse the people, Astorians
interested in the Centennial pageant,
which opens August 10 and continues
thirty days, are asking.
So far, the plans of the Centennial
committee have been carried out to
successful issue without a hitch.
There is to be plenty of amusement
and some educational features for
those who attend the pageant which
has been planned to commemorate the
first settlement of the Pacific north
by the white race.
The big features are to be scat
tered about Astoria in such manner
as to take advantage of all the natural
resources. The twelve mile long harbor
is to be used for aquatic displays, the
city streets for the pageantry parades
and the city park for some of the fixed
features.
Just a few minutes walk from the
center of the city, a thousand feet
above the sea level, is City park. Here,
with a view of the harbor, the rivers,
ocean and mountains, the big spec
tacular features are to be staged. A
stadium has been built into the hill
without any excavation and seats have
been built down the side of the slope
to care for about 5000 persons. There
is not a post to obstruct the view and
the stage, an open air one, has clump
of tall cedar trees for a background
This is where "The Bridge of the
Gods" is to be produced by Miss Mabel
Ferris, the Los Angeles girl who is now
living in Portland. Local talent is be-
ing trained to produce the spectacle,
which is founded upon the story of Mt
Hood being changed from a volcano
into an ice and snow covered mountain.
1t is an Indian legend, and has great
historical story to tell.
The state will maintain a salmon
hatchery during the whole thirty days
of the Centennial celebration is open.
Master Fish Warden Clanton has
delegated G. E. Greenman to take
charge of the exhibit and he has been
IN Astoria making preparations to
carry through the work.
This fish display is an intensely in
teresting one to everyone from all over
the country.
Another strong feature is the ex-
hibit of the resources of Clatsop county.
The timber and dairy industries will
be treated thoroughly too in the county
exhibit.
Manufacturers of national reputation
have engaged practically all the space
IN the building which has been erected
for this purpose and by the time the
Centennial opens-August 10-this big
structure will be crowded with exhibits
of the best nationally advertised wares
IN the country. The whole nation has
been secured to make this a representa-
tive exhibit and success has come from
the efforts of the committee in charge,
aided by the Astoria merchants.
Within the Astor Stockade there
will be the great $4,000 Indian relic
display loaned by Maj Lee Moore
house of Pendleton. This is a price
less collection which can never be duph-
Gated again. The major, who was an
Indian agent at the Umatilla reserva-
ton for years, secured these relics from
the Indians who never realized their
value.
Dead and departed chiefs who showed
great head dresses with pride did not
make any attempt to preserve their
equipment after their death. AS con-
sequence the braves who followed them
sold the only mementoes of the diving
race worth while for small sums. Major
Moorehouse, knowing the value of the
head dresses and implements of war
and peaceful Indian life, picked out the
best of them and today this collection
is without an equal in the world.
The whole collection is to be placed
in the "Living Quarters - within the
Astor Stockade. 1t will completely fill
this big building and is bound to be
great source of interest to the thou
sands who are to visit the Centennial
pageant.
Across the courtyard from this Indian
display is the structure reproducing the
barn used by the Astor trading party
when they had finished the fort. In
this the Indians will have their dining
room and storehouse for the curios
they are to bring with them. 1t will
be an interesting sight and well worth
your while to see them.
Out on the side of the hill the In
dams will pitch their tented city and
live the life old Chief Concomly and
his followers lived.
All the tribal traditions will be pre-
served here as they were a centnrv