The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1880-01-29
THE NATIONAL FAIR.

From Kansas and Colorado Illustrated Newspaper.
In our last issue We announced the
organization Of Western National
Fair Association, for the holding Of q
grand Agricultural and Industrial Ex-
hibition at Bismarck Grove, on the
line of the Kansas Pacific Railway,
near Lawrence, Kansas The move
mcnt has been rapidly assuming shape
and positive statements can now be
made. We quote from q recent num-
her Of the Kansas City Daily yOwrndi: :
The Western National Fair. an ell
terprise which has been on the stocks
for some time, was successfully launch
"a ut Lawrence on "Wednesday Last.
The directory. composed Of some Ofthe
best known, energetic and accomplish
e., business men Of Kansas, organized
by the election of Hon. James +. Keen
ey, Of waKeeney, Cove county, to the
presidency, while Joseph F. Riggs, Of
Douglas county ana J. ID. Bowersock,
of the Douglas County Bank, We're
chosen respectively secretary and
treasurer Mr.. Keeney Is well known
not only in Kansas, but the West gen
orally, ~ a man of marked ability and
wonderful energy He Is the founder
of the town of Wakeeney, aud repre-
SCENTS Trego county in the state lesisla-
tire. In ACCEPTING the office he spoke
ut length of the resources of Kansa.,
and promised that he would spare no
efforts To make the fair success.
The fair is to begin September 18th
AZ Bismarck Grove, thirty-seven miles
west Of Kansas City, and about the
same distance from Leayenworth, To-
peka aud Ottawa. Ii is situated prac-
tieally at the junction Of the Atchison,
Topeka & santa Fe, Kansas City,,
Lawrence 4 Southern, and Kansas
Racific branch to Leavenworth. II is,
therefore, easily accessible from any
point in Kansas. The grove ard
grounds are exceptionally fine. Per
haps no fair ground Ia the country j.
more conveniently reached, or Is nat
uralIy or artificiaily better suited fca
the purpose of fair. With so able a
directory. 80 efficiently differed, and
with location 80 advantageous. what
else is needed TO secure success Moth
ing provided Kansas has the re-
sources from which 10 draw the mate
rial OF an exhibit.
People who saw the wonderful Kan
1870.
need not he told of her fertile fields.
her boundIes> wealth in agricultural
possibilities. and her vast population
The people Of Kansas how number
nearly a million and since the Cen
tennial her acreage Of cultivated lands
has quadrup!cd. 1t Is patent, there
fore. To any well informed person,
that Kansa. has at hand everything
needed To make the grande-t agricul-
tural display ever made by any CON-
in this country.
In view of all these farts will the
people Of Eansa. unite and pull to-
ge,her harmouio1.ly for the .uoces- Of
the enterprise. lf they will, succ~-s
is absolutely certain. I:they viii not,
failure IL equally certain and the mat
Ter af displaying Kansas prs~incss will
rem ain. \. heretofore. ia tine hands Of
eitie- and people outside Of Kansas.
u r-ruain- 10 t- sen whether or not
any petty local jealou-ies will te al
lowed To cripple or kill \ mort admir-
able enterprise for the positive b~ne6t
of all.
II Is ANNOUNCED and wisely that
not only will the agricultural rodasfs
Of kanssss and other western states be
pat on exhibition. bat thai such Q
collection OF the minerals Of Colombo
will be made as 10 give fos the nr~t
time in this Way af least IN Idea Of
The inestima5le wealth Of the mines Of