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 A. H. DEVERS. Portland, Or.

PAUL WESSINGER. Portland, Or.

of the Board of Directors

The officers are: President.—H. W. Corbett. First Vice-President.—H. W. Scott. Second Vice-President.—Adolphe Wolfe. Third Vice-President. — Leo Friede. Auditor. — Adolphe Wolfe. Treasurer. — First National Bank. Secretary. — Henry E. Reed.

With a multitude of details to dispose of to put the company in business shape, and a mass of routine work to engross their attention, the directors have had a busy year. Before the end of their first twelve months of service, 22 stated and special meetings will have been held. It is not necessary to detail the proceedings of the Board in this writing and I shall refer only briefly to a few of the principal subjects that have been acted upon. On April 11th a hearing was given Hon. John Barrett, Commissioner-General to Asia for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, on the subject of co-operation between the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition. Mr. Barrett's suggestions were favorably received by the Board. On August 15th, Mr. Henry E. Dosch was appointed Special Commissioner to the Fifth National Industrial Exhibition of Japan, to be held at Osaka from March 1 to July 31, 1903. and resolutions were adopted

declaring the purpose of the company to erect a monument to Lewis and Clark in the City Park at Portland. As the result of Mr. Dosch's mission, an exhibit of the resources of Oregon will be made under the auspices of the Lewis and Clark Exposition Company at the Osaka Exhibition, and Japan will reciprocate by coming to Portland in 1905. On September 12th, the site for the Exposition was selected in the northwestern part of Portland, comprising 385 acres of land and natural lake, directly opposite the highest point on the Willamette river reached by Captain Clark on April 3, 1806. On October loth the Board declared for an appropriation of $500,000 by the State of Oregon. The present work of the company may briefly be summarized in the following recommendations of Hon. William D. Fenton, which have been adopted by the Committee on Legislation:

First — A bill for an act to appoint an Oregon Lewis and Clark Commission of nine members, and to appropriate $500,000 for the Lewis and Clark Centennial of 1905.

Second — A circular address to be issued by the board of directors, signed by the president and secretary, succinctly outlining the plan, purpose and general scope of the fair, and the estimated cost of the same.

Third — An official letter to be likewise authorized and signed, and sent to the Governors of the States of Washington, Idaho. Montana, Wyoming and Utah, asking them In recommend to their Legislatures appro-