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Show WORK ON GIANT MAP 1 NEARS COMPLETION g Utah's Mountains and Valleys Eepro- duced in Miniature at Agricul- 0 tural College. n Ten tons of clay are being molded j into a map of the state of Utah at L the Utah Agricultural college. The work on the immense relief map was E commenced in June and is nearing com- tj pletion. The finished article will be dis- gj plaved at the San Francisco exhibition g and is one of the largest ever made. A cast of the map will be displayed at the s San Diego exhibition and one will be hept at the college. f The map is being made under the eu- jf jiervision of Protessor William Peter- fi son, but L. H. Evans, D. W. Smith and p Bryant Bullet are doing the actual N work. The map, when completed, will be twenty bv sixteen feet in size. The p high peaks of the Uinta mountains stand f, almost a foot and a half high. The R scale horizontallv is a mile and a half f to the inch, while the vertical scale is exaggerated ten times in order to make the mountains prominent. jj A negative cast of the huge map will tj be taken in plaster of Paris and from F the negative as many final casts can be L taken as wished. The one cast to be sent to the San Francisco exhibition 1 will play an important factor in Utah's E iiisplav"at the world's fair next year, as wifl also the one to be sent, to the I San Diego fair. g There is also a smaller map being made by the agricultural college which g 1 will be convenient for school work. 1 These maps are technical in detail and 5 will be the most complete relief maps of the state that has ever been made. 1 |