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Show SOUVENIR GOLD DOLLARS 1 ' FOR PORTLAND EXPO, j coins the souvenirs at their face value, and the difference between that price and the selling price represents the Exposition Ex-position company's profit. The coins are sold in lots of six for 10, and storekeepers store-keepers attracted by the small profit possible for them, are displaying them in their windows. Jewelers are tastefully mounting the coins for scarf pins, brooches and pendants pen-dants for watch fobs, and in this form they are selling rapidly. . A circumstance that has greatly enhanced en-hanced the popularity of the coins among women is the fact that the proceeds pro-ceeds from every sixth coin will go toward to-ward a fund for the erection of a monument monu-ment to Sacajawea, the "BiH Weman." It was the "Bird Woman" who accompanied accom-panied Lewis and Clark on their first Journey to Oregon." Sacajawea shared with the men in the party the dangers and hardships of the long march, and her heroism on two occasions raved the lives of the company. It is natural, then, that the women of today should feel a deep Interest in the brown-skinned brown-skinned sister, who next to Lewis and Clark, Is deserving of eulogy. The statue to Sacajawea will be placed in the center cen-ter of the Columbia court, on the exposition ex-position grounds. Lewis and Clark souvenir gold dollars, dol-lars, which sell for $2 each, are proving popular, as was expected, and the first issue of 25,000 coins, will soon be exhausted, ex-hausted, if the demand for the souvenirs continues. When the appropriation was 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. 250,-000. The coins are of the size of the gold dollar which was formerly current, being be-ing somewhat smaller than a dime. They are different from any other coin ever circulated in that they have two heads or obversea This was made necessary ne-cessary by the fact that it was desired to give credit on the coin to both Meriwether Meri-wether Lewis and William Clark, the explorers whose expedition a century ago, in the words of President Roosevelt, Roose-velt, "marked the beginning of the process pro-cess of exploration and colonization which thrust our national boundaries to the Pacific." On the side of the coin bearing the likeness of Capt. Clark are the words "United States of America" and "One Dollar." On the other ride are the portrait of Capt. Lewis, the words "Lewis-Clark Exposition, Portland, Ore." and the date "1904." The coin has neither wreath nor etam .... The sale of the Lewis and Clark souvenir sou-venir coins is being pushed in various ways. In September the executive committee com-mittee of the Portland Commercial club appointed a committee of fifty young women to take charge of the sale. The committee met and it was decided that each member was to secure four others for the committee, giving the completed committee a membership of 250. The committee also adopted a resolution requesting re-questing every man in Oregon to wear one of the coins. The first' coin to be put into circulation was sent by the young women to the first young lady, in the land. Miss Alice Roosevelt, who has acknowledged ac-knowledged the courtesy shown her. i . . The Immediate object of the exposition exposi-tion in putting the coins into cli ulatlon is to realize funds for the fair. - It Is asserted, as-serted, however, that the coins will In a few years be worth more than the face value, as rarities. The Government |