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Show MT LAKE IS ONLY GATEWAY Tl PACIFIC Utah School Teachers Given Opportunity Op-portunity to Win $5000 in Cash Prizes. . PORTLAND, Or.. Mnrch -4. Salt Lake City Is the distributing point for Pacific coast travel. Ninety per cent of all the people who visit the Pacillc coast elthor como or go through Salt Lake City, and In any effort to Increase this travel that city Is Interested. The following offer will Interest tho teachers of Utah, for they will have tho double pleasure of earning some prizes nnd at tho same time doing their State and section a good turn. S5000 Prize Offered. To evidence Us appreciation of the National Na-tional Educational association's selection of the Pacillc coast" as the sccno of Its next annual convention at San Francisco. July 9 to 13 Inclusive, and to encourage delegates to include Portland and Oregon Ore-gon In their Itinerary, the Portland Commercial Com-mercial club offers 55000 in prizes for articles ar-ticles on Portland. Or., and tlii section of the United States, as follows: Klrat Drlze 51000 Second prlio 00 Third rirlso 2M Fourth prlro 100 Klfth prlza 173 Sixth prize 1W Seventh prize 125 Klghth prlio 110 Ninth prlio 100 Tenth orlzo 30 Ten prizes of 375 each 7S0 Ten prizes of ISO each t03 Ten prizes of tCo each ISO Twenty Drlzcs of $13 each 200 Twenty prizes of J10 each 200 Judgas (to bo acceptable to tho offlccrn of the N. K. A.l J00 Grand totnl J5000 I Conditions of Contest, In order to be eligible for competition these articles must appear In a regular edition of somo newspaper or other publication pub-lication printed outside of the States of Oregon and Washington, said publication (complete) to be In the hands of the Judges not later than October 1, 1S06. Theno nrtlrdpn nuiMt lm raaIH nnrl nrl. dressed to Teachers' contest, care Portland Port-land Commercial club. Portland. Or. They will be opened by the Judges. Prizes will be awarded strictly on the merits of tho articles. Contestants can treat any phase of tho tubject that appeals to them natural resources, re-sources, scenery, irrigation, agriculture and horticulture, history, educational and religious advantages, climatic or social conditions, etc. or In a more comprehensive comprehen-sive vein. Tho judges will be absolutely untrammeled in making their decisions. This offer Is made, not so much with a view of having tho country "boomed" In the common acceptation of that term, ns to have tho teachers of the counlrv become more familiar with this portion of tho United States and give expression to their views In such articles as will bo acceptable to papers throughout the I Union. |