Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1880-09-17
PRODUCTS OF THE VALLEY
AND MANDAN AZ
THE MINNEAPOLIS FAIR.

A Lasting Advertisement for tho Mis-
souri, River S1ope---What the
Outside World Thinks of
Western Enterprise.
THE VERDICT.
The citizens of Burleigh County may
we'll feel proud of their handsome exhib-
it at the greatest fair ever held in the
northwest Strangers arriving from Min
neapolis speak in the highest terms of
the entries while citizens who visited the
fair say that the Bismarck and Mandan
exhibit was one of the handsomest fea-
lures of the great show, attracting the at
tentlo1 Of everybody, amazing the agri.
culturlsts from all parts Of the country.
AS an instance, showing the impression
created by the Pagoda built of the cereal
productions of Burleigh County, and
filled with a display of vegetables and
fruits that astonished the visitors for their
size and perfection, the TRIBUNE reporter
listened to a Chicago gentleman, Mr..
Quincy, who arrived Saturday night. Mr..
Quincy has Travelled for number Of
years for leading hardware firm, here
tofore going no farther west than Fargo.
In company with his father-in-law, they
visited the Minneapolis fair and were so
highly pleased with the wealth of wheat
and oats intertwined into material for a
cottage, and containing such rare pro-
ductions of the vegetable kingdom that
Mr.. Quincey's ideas Of Bismarck's S impor-
tancc were expanded, he advising his
house that they had made mistake in
NEGLECTING BISMARCK,
and came on here for the first time. Mr..
Quincey's tather-1n-law, one of the oldest
farmers in Minnesota, thoroughly ac-
quainted with every detail in connection
with farming, has decided to move to
Bismarck This is but one instance
among hundred, the gentleman in ques-
ton being the first stranger met who had
taken in the exposition and entirely una
ware at the time that he was giving his
opinion to a member Of the press. The
birdie made entirely Of horse hair, sent
down by MIR. Whitney, was one of the
most interesting items Of the display, at
tracing large crowds and being univer-
sally admired as a unique work of art.
Though curiosity and the work Of a
single individual, it is rare specimen of
Mr.. Scott's skill and exquisite taste in its
work manship.
The Pioneer Press commenting upon
the Burleigh County Pagoda says:
THE BISMARCK AND MANDAN
display, in Agricultural Hall, is one of
the most attractive and intercstiE g exhibits
in that very attractive building. It is
made in Swiss cottage, decorated and
trimmed with wheat, oats and grasses,
from Burleigh county, Dakota, and orna.
mented with evergreen borders. The
beautiful structure was designed by Mr..
S. Tyler, landscape gardener Of this city
In TUESDAYS issue this exhibit was con-
founded with that of the North Pacific.
1t comes from the line of the North Pa
citic, of course, but is in fact made wholly
by the entcrprsing citizens of Bismarck
and Mandan, who raised the necessary
funds, collected the grains and vegetables
and sent them down to the great expOsi-
ton in charge of committee Of their
best men, that the merits of Burleigh
County, d. IT,, might be demonstrated to
the thousands who are seeking homes in,
or ale studying the capabilities and re-
sources of the new northwestern empire.
"Bismarcll" and "Mandan, in evergreen,
are interviewer with the golden thatching
of the roof of their fairy cottage, upon
either side, and as a whole it is the most
artistic feature OF the display in Agricul-
tural hall. The exhibit includes a COM
prehensive collection Of the grains and
agricultural products of Burleigh County
(Of which Bismarck is the county scat)
and Mandan, an adjoining town. The
visitor Will find
WHEAT AND VEGETABLES
from President Hayes farm, and the great
Stark, Steele and other farms, with sam
ples of all varieties of grains from old and
new land, thrcshcd and in the straw, and
they do not suffer in com parlson with the
magnificent exhibits made by other local
tiles. The pioneer farmers in charge Of
the exhibit state that their section has
been blessed with a bountiful, even extra
ordinary, harvest this season. The aver
age yield Of wheat in Burleigh county
this year is thirty bushels per acre, and
the Steele farm goes thirty ght bushels
all No. 1 oats, fifty to seventytive bush
els per acre, and other crops are proper
tionately good. They also have on exhl-
bition block Of soft coal weighing 5000
pounds, from the Baby Mine, ".forty miles
west of Mandan. This coal was brought
down by Mr. G. w. Thompson, superin-
teudcnt of the mine, which is said to be
inexhaustiblc and of oflnestimable value to-
that region. The committee III charge of
the exhibit are Messrs JF Wallace, resid-
ing near Bismarck; e. Boley, of Man(lan,
Mr. Cameron, of Bismarck, and COL VIM
Thompson, a veteran of the regular army,
who has retired to the walks of peace ana
plenty he has served SO faithfully to
secure.
This committee acknowledge their OBJ
legations to Franz. j. Mead for valuable
assistance, and to the officers and employ
es Of the North Pacific, who furnish them
free transportation and all possible facil-
tiles for reaching the exposition grounds
and returning to their homes. No one
passing through Agricultural hall can
fail to see and admire the Bismarck and
Mandan exhibit. is5s
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