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Show Meeker Urges Oregon Trail Shafts I ' . ; ' V ' -5 g :. ' ?: i- , ? 'i ' I , ' 1 i i I .!. c:?nv: ..; -4 if U ft -'ii .,....v . ... , , wam a Ezra Meeker, one of the few surviving iiiuncers of the "covered wagon days" of the West, appeared before the house committee on coinage, weights and measures to urge the government to issue United States coins to sell at fifty cents each so that money may be raised to place monuments alone the old Oregon trail. In the photogrupli with Ezra Meeker are Itepresenla-live Itepresenla-live Addison T. Smith of Idaho (left) : nd Dr. Duvid G. Wylie of New York, secretary of the Oregon Trail association. |