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LEWIS AND CLARK EXPOSITION TO DATE

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FERDINAND DRESSER, Portland, Or. GEORGE W. RIDDLE, Azalia, Or.

of the Board of Directors

States by the following State commis- sions:

Oregon. — H. W. Corbett, Henry E. Ankeny, C. B. Bellinger, C. W. Fulton, E. E. Young.

Washington.— Frank J. Parker, W. W. Tolman, J. G. Megler, E. M. Rands, George W. Rowan.

Idaho. — Thomas Kirby, E. W. John- son, J. H. Richards.

Montana. — S. T. Hauser,

Utah. — Hoyt Sherman, Hiram ,B. Clawson, L. W. Shurtleff.

British Columbia.— R. E. Gosnell.

Most of the year 1901 was spent in preparations. Joint meetings of the various State commissioners were held in Portland and at one of these "The Lewis and Clark Centennial and American Pacific Exposition," with the legend, "Where Rolls the Oregon/' was selected as the name of the com- pany. Subsequently it was found that the Legislature of Oregon had passed an act enabling the City of Portland to levy a tax in aid of an Oriental Fair and to profit by this tax the name of the company was amended to read "The Lewis and Clark Centennial and American Pacific Exposition and Ori- ental Fair."

This is its official name. Late in the year the state commissioners who had been appointed joined in a proclama- tion explaining the results of the Lewis

and Clark expedition, and stating the purposes of the proposed celebration in 1905, concluding by inviting Na- tional and State participation.

Meanwhile the local Provisional Committee kept interest from flagging and laid the plans for incorporating the stock company to carry on the fair. It was decided to place the capital stock at $300,000. The objects were declared to be:

First — To hold an American Pacific Ex- position and Oriental Fair and an exhibition of the arts, industries, manufactures and products of the soil, mine and sea, in the City of Portland, Oregon, during the year 1905, to be State, Inter-State, National, American and Oriental in its character. •

Second — To facilitate and assist in the construction of buildings and the equipment thereof, and of all classes of structures for the exhibition of the arts, industries, manu- factures and products of the soil, mines and sea, to be used as a part of or in conniection with said exposition and fair.

Third — To acquire, by lease or purchase, for the purpose of using the same for the holding of said exposition and fair, all lands deemed necessary by the corporation, and to dispose of the same when the fair is closed, in such manner as may be deemed fit.

Fourth — To borrow money on bonds, notes, or otherwise, for the general pur- poses of the corporation, and to mortgage any or all of its property and incomes, actual or prospective, including the money raised from the gate receipts, or any part thereof, and to issue all necessary mort- gages or indentures to secure the payment thereof. ^-^ t.