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Rh Mexico. There are also twenty-seven different lines of railway, carrying passengers and freight in all directions. This city has the largest union depot on earth, erected at a cost of six million and a half dollars.

St. Louis is the fourth city in population in the United States, being a great commercial, manufacturing and wholesale market. The exposition will cost fifty million dollars, and will have under cover over one hundred acres of floor space for exhibits, and has enclosed by fences twelve hundred and forty acres, and there are over three hundred separate buildings, ranging from eighteen acres down to the smaller ones.

The "Pike" will be to the fair of 1904 what the famous "Midway" was to the fair of 1893, and the "Ivory