EXPOSITION, TRANS-MISSISSIPPI AND INTERNATIONAL, 



known as the Kountze tract, lying across Twentieth 

 Street, and extending from Sherman Avenue to 

 Twenty-fourth Street, on account of its location, 

 topography, symmetry, and accessibility, was select- 

 ed for the group of main buildings. This property 

 was 670 feet, in width and about half a mile in length, 

 and through the center extended a canal which was 

 150 feet wide at the east end, while at the west end 

 it widened into a three-lobed lake 400 feet across. 

 On the east, lying at right angles to the 



Kountze tract, was an area of sixty acres, known as 

 the Bluff tract, stretching along the bluffs and over- 

 looking the river country beyond. In this tract 

 were grouped the State buildings. The remainder 

 of the Exposition grounds were north of the Kountze 

 tract, west of Sherman Avenue, and included the old 

 fair grounds and the land beyond it, embracing in all 

 about eighty acres. In this tract were the amuse- 

 ment features. On the old fair-ground site were 

 the live-stock and irrigation exhibits, the display 

 of transportation and agricultural implements, 

 and the Indian village. 

 Two viaducts across 

 Sherman Avenue con- 

 nected the Bluff tract 

 with the Court of the 

 Grand Canal, and with 

 the large area to the 

 north. The north via- 

 duct immediately con- 

 nected the sections de- 

 voted to the amuse- 

 ment features, the one 

 on the Bluff tract lying 

 parallel to Sherman 

 Avenue, the other be- 

 ing west of the ave- 

 nue, which latter 

 continued westward 

 to a connection 

 with 20th Street, 

 which led south- 

 ward to the 

 Grand Court. 

 The main en- 

 trance to the 

 Exposition 

 grounds was 

 on the south 

 line at the in- 

 tersection 

 of 20th St., 

 through 

 the Arch 

 of States. 



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