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IN writing of "The Lewis and Clark Exposition to Date" it is perhaps most satisfactory to the reader, in the absence of arrangements that would give scope and form to the undertaking, to begin at the beginning and treat events sequentially. This course leaves open numerous avenues leading to the prosaic, but this cannot very well be avoided in dealing with an Exposition which is international in character, but only in its preliminary stages. The work that will determine what the Exposition of 1905 will be is now under way and will be rounding into shape while the readers of the Pacific Monthly are engrossed in this issue.

For several years prior to 1900, Mr. Daniel McAllen, one of our leading business men, proposed and enthusiastically advocated the holding of an industrial fair in Portland. He maintained that if the enterprise were undertaken and if the people should keep within their means in financing it, a fair could be held which would greatly benefit the State and the city by advertising their resources to people in other

H. W. CORBETT, President of the Board of Directors

H. W. Scott, First Vice-President