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mountain is seen, Mount Jefferson, so named by Lewis and Clark, after President Jefferson. Five gigantic, glacial peaks, rising above the dark green forest that surrounds them! Think of it! ye who live on the Atlantic shores where such a sight the year around is unknown; ye who dwell in the prairie country where a hill 100 feet high is a mountain; and even ye who live among the Rockies can see no such spectacle as God here grants to His children. It is a wondrous vision, a dream, almost an unreality at first, but something once seen can be, is, never forgotten.

Agricultural Exposition Building, showing section of Sunken Gardens.

The total cost of the Lewis and Clark Exposition, including appropriations, etc., by the various States, the Government, and Commissions, aggregates about $5,000,000, and this is being most economically expended. All Portland, practically, is overseeing the job, and not in the grafting line either. The Portlandians are determined that those who journey across the continent to see their beautiful city, country, and exposition shall get their money’s worth

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