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Show NEVADA EXPOSITION i BUILDING PROGRESS i Reno, Nev., May 19. Reno's famous fa-mous divorce courts hold their sessions ses-sions late in the afternoon now, tor the rap-rap-rap of the riveters on the Nevada state building for Nevada's Neva-da's Transcontinental Highways Ex-i Ex-i position disturb the judges, the law- yers and the court reporters cannot can-not hear the evidence of the fair divorcees. The Nevada building for the 1927 exposition is more than half completed, com-pleted, for the steel is all up, and only a little more riveting remains to be done. Half of the walls are up and it will be only a few weeks until the entire structure, costing 3225,000, will he completed. The Nevada building is a permanent structure and at the conclusion of the exposition, which will run during dur-ing the summer of 1927, will house the state historical society's museum. mu-seum. The Nevada building, located across from the court house, however, how-ever, is only a little bit of the exposition ex-position activity, for all of the remainder re-mainder is at Idlewild park, a half mile west, at the edge of the city limits. It is a natural exposition park, the silvery Truckee river running run-ning right through the exposition grounds. Here the county in which Reno is located, has just completed its county coun-ty exhibit, a modern fish hatchery, where hundreds of thousands of trout are hatched each year and planted in the Truckee and other streams and lakes of the country. This hatchery will contain a modern mod-ern aquarium and will be one of the show spots of the expostion Although the exposition is a little more than a year away, construction construc-tion has progressed about forty per cent. Senator True Vencill, one of the governors, is now completing his arrangements for the placing of exhibit space, and he anticipates that nearly every industry in the country will be represented. California's building will probably proba-bly be started by the middle of May. The plans, being drawn in the state architect's office in Sacramento, are about complete, and W. A. Shepard, exposition commissioner from California, Cali-fornia, says he expects the work to be started within a few weeks, j California has appropriated $100,-000 $100,-000 for its building and exhibits. The San Francisco board of supervisors super-visors have appropriated $60,000 for participation. |