In the Horticultural Building about 50 exhibitors displayed specimens of the fruits of Oregon.  Apples, pears, and prunes were shown in interesting variety and unexcelled quality.

Four exhibitors made exhibits in the Live Stock Department.

In the Mines and Metallurgy Building there was a very unique and interesting display of mineral specimens, many of which were loaned to the State of Oregon for use at the exposition.  Among the specimens there were collections of gold quartz and nuggets from the various gold mines of the State.  Besides the gold, there were shown collections of polished pebble, copper ores, native silver, including cobalt and antimony ores, crystals, opals, marble, jasper, asbestos, limestone, kaolin, asphaltum, and tellurium ores.  There were also displayed Indian curios, ethnological, geological, and other specimens, all found in the State of Oregon.  The total value of the exhibit in the Mines and Metallurgy Building was estimated at $35,000.

The cost of installing and maintaining the exhibits in the several palaces were as follows: 

Agricultural Building ................. $7,117
Horticultural Building ................  6,148
Educational Building ..................  3,800
Forestry Building .....................  3,200
Mines and Metallurgy Building .........  5,000
Fish and Game Building ................  2,300

The cost of freight and transportation from Oregon to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition was, approximately, $4,400.  Altogether the State of Oregon expended $45,803.34 out of its appropriation up to the close of the exposition.

PENNSYLVANIA.

By a joint resolution of the legislature of Pennsylvania, on February 4, 1903, Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker appointed Lieutenant-Governor William M. Brown, president of the senate; John M. Scott, speaker of the house; Henry F. Walton, State treasurer; Frank G. Harris, auditor; Gen. Edmund B. Hardenbergh, secretary of internal affairs, and Isaac B. Brown as members of the Pennsylvania commission.  Subsequently the governor appointed the following additional members:  William S. Harvey, Morris L. Clothier, Joseph M. Gazzam, George H. Earle, Jr., Charles B. Penrose, George T. Oliver, H.H.  Gilkyson, Hiram Young, James Pollock, and James McBrier.  The president of the senate appointed John G. Brady, William C. Sproul, William P. Snyder, J. Henry Cochran, Cyrus E. Woods, and the speaker of the house appointed Theodore B. Stulb, John Hamilton, William B. Kirker, William Wayne, John A.F.  Hoy, Fred T. Ikeler, William H. Ulrich, A.F.  Cooper, Frank B. McClain, George J. Hartman.

The commission organized on April 24, 1903, and nominated James H. Lambert, of Philadelphia, executive officer; Bromley Wharton, secretary of the commission and created an executive committee of nine members, with H. George J. Brennan as secretary; Thos.  H. Garvin, superintendent State Building; Philip H. Johnson, architect.