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288 state of Oregon, and seven for the use of other states Sixteen foreign countries and seventeen states participated in tke expMtion, which was formally opened on the appointed day« May 1, 1905, by Vice-President Fairbanks.

There Were Approximately Three Million Admissions to the grounds. Such was the patronage that the Lewis and Clark exposition was the first national exposition in the United States to prove financially successful. But, best of all, the Lewis and Clark Exposition brought Americans as well as foreign nations into better acquaintance, and into closer touch with the people and the resources of Oregon, so that capital fmally responded to the long neglected call from the Northwest. A new impetus was given to public and private enterprises, and the throb of prosperity began to be felt SIS never before throughout the region explored by Lewis and Clark in their famous expedition to the Pacific Coast.

The State Institution for Feeble>Minded. The State Institution for feeble-minded was established by the Legislature of 1907, and was formally opened in November, 1 906, when 38 feeble-minded persons were admitted. The objects of the institution were first, prevention of mental defectives by segregation; second, care and attention to make them as nearly self-supporting as possible; third, custody of die idiotic and epileptic, seventy to eighty percent of which, according to statistics, are in the state institution for feeble-minded because of hereditary defects.

The institution Is located on a farm of 635 acres, about thiee miles southeast of Salem. Instruction is given in grade work, manual training, basketry and sewing. Various other branches in connection vrith these subjects are also taught Those yAiO are capable may advance in scholarship about equal to the f ourdi grade in the public schools. Addiliofial Federal Judge. By Act of Congress of March 2, 1909, an additional district judge was provided