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Show PLANS FOR BIG EXHIBIT St. Louis and , Portland Fair Commissioners Arc Already at Work. The commissioners appointed by Gov. Wells to care for the interests of the State at the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clarke expositions are losing no time, but are settling down to earnest work at once. At meetings to be held between now and April 1st the board will be thoroughly organized organ-ized and the work to be accomplished will be mapoed out. Both commissions commis-sions will work together, gathering and preparing their exhibits. Hoyt Shermsn, who was in St. Louis when the ground was allotted for the Utah building, says that there is not a more desirable location on the fair grounds. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Massachu-setts are the nearest neighbors. . . Samuel Newhoupe, one of the members mem-bers of the board, is in London; where he will remain until early in May. 'The primary work of the board, accordingly, falls on. Gov. Wells,' and the other members, mem-bers, iteasrs. Sherman, Johnson and Shurtllff. ' , - The Utah exhibit. at the World's fair In Chicago ten years aro cost the State a little over $50,000. The cost was divided di-vided as follows: , , - Salaries .. ." $10,703.25 Building U.0.00 Furniture l.3.2 Mineral, agricultural pavilion and . cases 5'2!!?'59 Ladles board 2,;2- Collecting exhibits ,f2?9 General expenses 14.063.11 Total :.181.65 The Legislature this year made an appropriation of $50,000 for the St. Louis fair which will insure as fine a display as was shown in Chicago, and $10,000 for the Portland fair. The exhibit at Portland Port-land will be almost the same .as that at St. Louis, as the. bulk of the exhibit will be shipped there. There will probably be no Utah building erected at Portland. Port-land. " |