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Show iiTi "r"1 111 will have from five to ten. Each float will represent some resource or : Industry. THE UTAH PIONEER JUBILEE. In Commemoration f the Arrival of "The Pioneers of 1847." Special Correspondence. . Salt Lake City, April 13, 1S97. Between sixty and seventy floats are to be built directly by the commission com-mission and from present indications as many more will be constructed under its supervision. There will be as many floats in the jubilee parades as there were in the last Mardi Gras in New Orleans, more than was , to be seen in the veiled Prophet's celebration cele-bration in St. Louis, twice as many as were in last year's Festival of Mountain and Plain in Denver, and three times as many as La Fiesta of Los Angeles, which begins on the 90th inst., will have. The jubilee floats will be the peers, in beauty and grandeur, of any similar pro-. pro-. ductions yet exhibited in the United States and will be of greater interest, inter-est, because the subjects to be depicted de-picted will come closer to the hearts of the people. TJie Commission will expend not less than $25,000 in the construction of its own floats and as much more will be expended for floats by t he counties of the State and by merchants and manufacturers, manufactur-ers, SERPENT OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE. The magnificent dragon, which the Chinese reverently worship as the greatest of all their idols, will be a feature of the jubilee parades, as it was of the -Midsummer Carnival , held here last year. In one of the night parades the dragon will represent repre-sent the serpent of the Great Salt Lake. The Chinese attendants, 150 in number, will be ' dressed in the tnest elaborate and fanciful costumes cos-tumes of their country. Every float in that parade, the subject of which fs "Great Salt Lake- Real and Fanciful," Fan-ciful," will be decorated with materials mate-rials made from the products for which the waters are famous. COUNTV DISPLAY PARADE. Every county in the State, and there are twenty-seven counties, will bave at least one float and a number ; .' |