Years ago..in The World

€ 99 years ago (March 4, 1905, Weekly Coast Mail) - The upcoming centennial Lewis & Clark Exposition in Portland was eagerly anticipated. In addition to meetings of delegations from cities around the state, there also would be numerous displays. One was of the first locomotive used in the state which was much smaller than current engines and used to run daily on wooden tracks along the Columbia River. Australia also would have an exhibit. The "land of gold and the kangaroo's" $50,000 display would demonstrate the commercial value of the gugong fish ("whose hide was three-inches thick") and the platypus, among other things.