orld's Fair was an unique and attractive one, designed
primarily to demonstrate the quality, character, and exceeding
dimensions of the State's forestry product. It consisted of eight pieces
of fir timber 24 inches square and 110 feet long, placed on end at the
points of an octagon 90 feet in diameter at the base, five stories in
height, the eight timbers surmounted by an observatory carrying a flag
pole 60 feet in length. All the material entering into the construction
of the State Building was shipped from the State of Washington, and was
donated to the State by the Northwest Lumber Manufacturers' Association.
The market value of said material in Washington would be, in round
numbers, $8,000. The freight on the material from Washington to St.
Louis and the construction of the building amounted to $18,823.10. The
unique design and unusual construction features of this building
constituted it at the start one of the features of the exposition
construction.

It was photographed by many thousand visitors, illustrated in railroad
guides as one of the attractions, featured by papers and magazines
everywhere, and will probably be distinctly remembered longer by a
greater number of people than any other building on the exposition
grounds. As a practical exhibit of the State's lumber products it was a
tremendous success, and together with its exhibit contents, representing
a composite collection of the State's natural products and resources,
was a colossal advertisement and demonstration of the State's natural
wealth.

In addition to the State appropriation, heretofore mentioned, and the
donation of lumber material above referred to, various counties in the
State expended a total of $15,000 in the maintenance of individual
exhibits.

The State of Washington installed and maintained throughout the period,
in the various classified exhibit palaces, comprehensive exhibits of its
mines, forestry, fisheries, game, horticulture, agriculture, education,
climate, and scenery, and in addition, and supplemental thereto,
maintained a composite showing of all these resources in its State
building:

Horticulture: One thousand boxes of the best apples grown in the
State in 1903 were carried over in St. Louis in cold storage. On
May 1 the exhibit was opened with the 500 jars of miscellaneous
fruits preserved for this exhibit; on May 15 we began the
showing of fresh fruits, which showing was continued with all
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