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Show RARE SOUVENIR OF EXPOSITION Gold Dollars That Are Valuable. Louis and Clark Exposition Coins Prove Very Popular, Jewelers Find Many Ways of Making Them Attractive to Friends of Northwest. PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 11. Lewis and Clark souvenir gold dollars, which sell for ?2 each, arc proving popular, as was expected, and the first Issue of 25,-000 25,-000 coins will soon be exhausted If the demand for the souvenirs continues. "When the appropriation waa made for the fair by Congress a clause in the bill provided for the coinage of the gold dollars, the Issue being limited to 250,000. The coins are of tho size of the gold dollar which was formerly current, cur-rent, being somewhat smaller than a dime. They are different from any other coin ever circulated in that they have two heads or obverses. This was made necessary by tho fact that it was desired to give credit on the coin to both Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the explorers whose expedition a century ago, ln the words of President Presi-dent Roosevelt, "marked tho beginning of the process of exploratiou and colonization col-onization which thrust our national boundaries to tho Pacific." On the side of tho coin bearing tho likeness of Capt. Clark are the words "United States of America" and "Ono Dollar." On tho other side are the portrait of Capt. Lewis, the words "Lewis-Clark Exposition, Expo-sition, Portland, Or.," and the date "1904." The coin has neither wreath nor stars. Young' "Women Sell CoinB. The sale of the Lewis and Clark souvenir sou-venir coins Is being pushed In various ways. In September tho executive committee of the Portland Commercial club appointed a committee of fifty young women to take chargo of the sale. The committee met and it was decided that each member was to secure se-cure four others for the committee, giving giv-ing the completed committee a membership mem-bership of 250. The committee also adopted a. resolution xefiuesting every. man in Oregon to wear one of the coins. Tho first coin to be Dut into circulation circula-tion was sent by the young women to the first young lady ln the land. Miss Alice Roosevelt, who has acknowledged the courtesy shown her. The Immediate object of tho exposition expo-sition in putting the coins Into circulation circu-lation is to realize funds for the fair. It is asserted, however, that the coins will in a few years be worth more than their face value, as rarities. The Government coins the souvenirs at their face value, and the difference between lhat price and the selling price represents repre-sents the exposition company's profit. Tho coins are sold ln lots of six for 10, and storekeepers, attracted by the small profit possible for them, are displaying dis-playing them in their windows. Monument to Sacajawea. Jewelers are tastefully mounting the coins for scarfpins, brooches and pendants pend-ants for watchfobs. and in this form they are selling rapidly. A circumstance that has greatly enhanced en-hanced the popularity of the coins among tho women is the fact that the proceeds from every sixth coin will go toward a fund for the erection of a monument to Sacajawea, the "Bird Woman." It was the "Bird "Woman" who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their ilrst Journey to Oregon. Sacajawea Sacaja-wea shared with the men ln tho party the dangers and hardships of the long march, and her heroism on two occasions occa-sions saved the lives of tho company. It is natural, then, lhat the women of today should feel a deep Interest In the brown-skinned sister who, next to Lewis and Clark, Is deserving of eulogy. eu-logy. The statue to Sacajawea will be placed In, the center of the Columbia court on the exposition grounds. |