The total cost of the building, exclusive of furniture, including gas and electric light fixtures, was approximately $15,500.

All the plaster, inside and out, used in the construction of the building was manufactured from Oklahoma gypsum.

The educational exhibit was shown in the Palace of Education and occupied 488 square feet.  It contained representative work from the kindergarten to the University of Oklahoma.  All the seven colleges and preparatory schools supported by the Territory were represented, and many of the ten institutions of higher learning supported by denominational and private enterprises.  Work from the majority of the 2,192 district schools was shown in leaf cabinets, framed pictures, and in other ways.  Taxidermical work and modeling in Oklahoma plaster were shown, together with specimens of the handiwork of the students in the Agricultural and Mechanical College.  There were more than 4,000 exhibits contained in the collection, which was shown in cabinets and cases.  The total cost of collection, installation, and maintenance was $1,825.95.

The agricultural exhibit was shown in section 42 of the Palace of Agriculture, and covered 3,600 square feet of floor space.

Specimens of all the agricultural products of the Territory were shown in the exhibit and consisted of the following: 

                                      Exhibits. 
Thrashed grain: 
  Wheat ................................... 160
  Oats .................................... 65
  Rye ..................................... 5
  Barley .................................. 11
Corn, shelled ............................. 19
Miscellaneous, consisting of alfalfa seed,
  timothy, speltz, castor beans, etc ...... 31
Corn in the ear: 
  1903 .................................... 159
  1904 .................................... 300
Potatoes: 
  Irish ......................... plates .. 150
  Sweet ........................... do .... 57
Broom corn ................................ 20

The foregoing constituted the main body of the exhibit, which was supplemented by corn in the stalk, wheat, oats, barley, and other grains in exhibit bundles, native and tame grasses in profusion, water-melons, the largest of which weighed 117 pounds; various field and garden vegetables, cotton and cotton-seed products, flax, tobacco, etc.  A special feature was a loaf of bread baked from flour ground from wheat of the 1904 crop.  The total cost of collection, installation, and maintenance was $4,072.80.

In the Horticultural Department the exhibit covered 1,100 square feet of floor space.  The exhibit consisted of 250 jars of preserved fruits of the various kinds produced in Oklahoma, 200 bottles of Oklahoma grape wine, and about 400 plates of fresh fruits of the various kinds in their season.  Four hundred and fifty bushels of the choicest apples were placed in cold storage in the fall of 1903 to keep the exhibit fresh.  On the 15th of November the exhibit had 1,800 specimens of apples from the crops of 1904.  The total cost of collection, installation, and maintenance was $4,892.48.