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Title: Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Historical Society of Montana
Subjects: Montana -- History Periodicals
Publisher: Helena, Mont. : Rocky Mountain Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Montana State Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Montana State Library

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and with which I have had to do. It gives me pleasure to say that from the results, as shownto me in my capacity, our state has every reason to feel thegreatest satisfaction in what has been accomplished in Port-land as well as in St. Louis. In comparing the two events, to be sure, the Portland Fairwas overshadowed in every. particular by the Fair at St.Louis, but for all that I do not hesitate to say that in propor-tion to the amount of money spent on the two occasions thebenefits reaped for our state in Portland are not exceeded bythe St. Louis Fair. It is true that in Portland we werewithout the attractions of a State Building, but the variousexhibits were made as comfortable as possible for visitingMontanians and our registers show that over 7,500 of ourpeople signed the register during the four and one-halfmonths, or an average of 55 per day. In St. Louis I esti-matea rrom the register in the State Building the average at-tendance of Montanians was 50 per day. The Secretary of i
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z 0 0 w 0Q H w 00 T. 0CI o M H M a hiIt« H1-1t) o M K a11 MONTANA AT THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPOSITION. 89 the Bureau of Statistics, however, figured that in propor-tion to the number of people brought in by the Railroads,Montana with her population was allotted 14,000, but I donot think that this is correct. * The appropriation for our State was $10,000, andwas the smallest for any of the states. Washingtonhad an appropriation of $85,000 and had a beautiful statebuilding; so had California with $90,000; New York, $60,-000; Missouri, $35,000; Idaho, $35,000; Illinois, $25,000,and Utah, $20,000. Many advantages were afforded theseand other states having buildings in as much as they weregranted the privilege of placing their exhibits in the build-ings. In St. Louis this was not the case, as exhibits wereplaced in buildings for distinctive branches, and many vis-itors could visit some one or two buildings but would not seethem all. So much was lost in thatdistinction, but in theuse of a st

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