MONTANA DEDICATION DAY.

June 29, 1898.

The location of the Montana building gave it prominence, being on the main
avenue leading south from the esplanade, and near the entrance to the Bluff
Tract from Sherman Avenue.  The building was well arranged, and under the able
supervision of Mr. W.H. Sutherlin, Exposition vice-president for Montana.  The
Montana building and exhibit, both of which reflected great credit on the
state, were made possible by the liberal donation of Mr. Marcus Dailey, who
pledged the delegation that visited Montana to promote the exposition in the
winter of 1897, a donation of $15,000; the legislature afterwards appropriated
a like amount, and the exhibits from that state and the building erected by the
Commission were placed in charge of vice-president Sutherlin.

The exercises dedicating the building to the uses for which it had been
erected, were held at 4 o'clock P.M., and while simple, were impressive.  The
program consisted of a short address by Vice-president Sutherlin, several
musical selections, and an address by President Gurdon W. Wattles, and were
concluded by a luncheon served by the Montana Commission.