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THE IREIGATION AGE. 



ing present interesting fields for their devotees, and the great 

 beauty of it all is increased by the opportunities for travel- 

 ing routes untramped except by pioneers. 



In making the trip across the United States to the Pa- 

 cific Coast, railway rates have been established granting un 

 usual stopover privileges and choice of route in going and 

 coming. The Yellowstone National Park will be kept open 

 a fortnight longer than the regular season, and this will en 

 able the visitor to see this wonderland under exceptional 

 conditions. 



By the judicious selection of routes in making the cross- 

 country journey, a considerable part of some of the great 

 irrigation projects recently carried out may be seen to ad- 

 vantage. One instance of this nature will be seen in the 

 trip through the Twin Falls district in southern Idaho. This 

 country is intersected by the Oregon Short Line, and an in- 

 spection of the mammoth irrigation system inaugurated will 

 constitute an interesting and valuable feature of an exposi- 

 tion visit. 



Seattle has kept pace with the exposition in preparing 

 for visitors during the summer months. The hotel service- 

 has been greatly enlarged, and is now sufficient to care for 

 all guests and visitors. By agreement among hotel pro- 

 prietors and restaurant keepers, no increase in the ordinary 



ment. Uncle Sam is spending $600,000, but is doing it him- 

 self on his own exhibits and buildings. 



One hundred thousand cactus dahlia plants are used in 

 one single feature of the landscape gardening of the exposi- 

 tion. 



Eleven airships of various types have already entered for 

 the airship show. 



"Old Faithful," the famous Yellowstone Park geyser, will 

 be reproduced in Geyser Basin. It will spout water, illu- 

 minated at night by electric lamps of different colors, a 

 height of 150 feet in the air. 



Gold dust valued at $5,000,000 has arrived in Seattle, 

 where it will make one of the exhibits. It was brought out 

 over the winter trail from Dawson City, Nome and Fair- 

 banks. 



There will be 85 dancing men and women in the Turkish 

 Village, making it the biggest oriental concession put on at 

 any exposition. 



Tourists bound for the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific Exposition, 

 which opens in Seattle in June, will have a splendid oppor- 

 tunity to take the world famous summer excursion along 

 the glaciers and mountains of the Alaskan coast. 



The Seattle chamber of commerce will conduct an in- 

 formation bureau in Seattle for the benefit of visitors to the 



ade of the Palace of Agriculture, Alaska- Yukon-Pacific Exposition. 



tariff for entertainment will be made. These prices are mod- 

 erate, and vary sufficiently to suit all purses. The exposition 

 grounds are within twenty minutes' ride by street car from 

 the business center, and four surface electric lines will run 

 a one-minute service. In addition to this method of reach- 

 ing the grounds, two railways will operate a half hourly 

 service between the central station and the fair. The trip 

 may also be made by way of the cable car lines and lake 

 excursion boats. 



All boat service on Puget Sound waters has been in- 

 creased, and the summer excursion routes will cover all the 

 picturesque and delightful voyages of the great inland sea. 



NOTES OK THE EXHIBITS. 



Japan has spent 200,000 yen upon its building and in 

 bringing its exhibit to the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific Exposition. 



The Alaska- Yukon-Pacific Exposition is the first world's 

 fair which has not asked financial assistance of the govern- 



city. Agents will meet all boats and trains, and in this way 

 persons who visit the metropolis of the State of Washington 

 this summer will be assured of reasonable rates at the hotels 

 and lodging houses. 



Among the interesting works of art is a statue of "Old 

 Jennie," last of the Rogue River Indians. 



One of the interesting exhibits is the display of the 

 American Bankers' Associatiou. The exhibit will be highly 

 educational in character. A meeting of the bankers' asso- 

 ciations of Washington, Oregon, Montana and Idaho will be 

 held in Seattle this summer. 



Send $2.50 for The Irrigation Age, one year, and J" 

 the Primer of Irrigation, a 260-page finely illustrated 

 work for new beginners in irrigation. 



