The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-10-23
DAKOTA'S EXHIBIT.
Arrival of the Dakota Car or
Products at Mil
waukee.
milwaukee Sentinel.l

The "product car" containing samples Of
grain and vegetable products grown in Gen.
trail and Southern Dakota arrived Mt the
Union Depot
The car is IN ordinary passenger COACH
with the seats removed and with shelves
encircling the interior. The outer sides Of
the car are decorated with oil paintings
representing the Dakota harvest fields and
South Dakota landscape views The ex-
hibits are from Clay, Union. Lincoln,
lankton, Bon Homme, and other counties
in Dakota reached by the St Paul Rail-
way. The car will go from Chicago to
Detroit, Buffalo. New England. and the
Canadas. After an absence Of two months
in the East, the ear will be taken to New
Orleans for exhibition ut the Worlds Fair.
The interior Of the coach presented Il
very attractive appearance. The roof was
tastefully trimmed with fox. gr,sses and
grains, wrought into numerous designs
and artistically arranged. Right under
meath the roof were eight or nine different
varieties Of corn in the ear--yellow dent,
yellow flint, white flint. strawberry, etc.
The white flint corn grows to the length of
IA inches. Below the corn display are
the shelves containing specimens Of Dakota
vegetables. There are sweet potatoes
weighing three pounds, from lankton;
Irish potatoes grown in Elk Point, Union
County; eucnmbers, egg plant, water and
musk melons, squashes beets, cabbage, and
all kinds of fruit 4 display is also made
of preserves from Sioux Falls. consist
ing Of plums, blackberries. mspberries,
gooseberries, currants. The vegetables,
many of them. are Of mon
strous size. Several of the beets weigh
from II to 20 pounds, and are grown in
Brown County. On the floor are sweet
pumpkins weighing 80 pounds. water
melon from Yankton weighing ~ pounds.
and other samples of vegetables Of far more
than the usual weight. The largest is a
squash, raised by q. Y. Knowles, nj kamm,
Lincoln County. Its circumference is !
feet and inch. and its weight 1s5 pounds.
barley, and flax, of superior quality. The
spare room in the car Is occupied by ex-
hibits of bunch grass, feet high, timothy
with heads inches long blue joint grass
ID feet high, and red-top 5 feet high.
A show is also made of peanuts grown in
lankton. They grow upon vines like po-
tatoes aud are dug from the ground. There
are specimens Of Sioux Falls granite, very
hard, and capable of fine polish, as
smooth as marble.
There also arr, ed ut the Union Depot n
locomotive and tender, constructed entirely
of wheat, oats and evergreen sprigs. The
locomotive is eight feet in length, and every
feature of the ordinary railway engine is
reproduced in miniature. The cowcatcher,
bell. whistle. drive wheels. steam chest,
piston rods. headlight, and everything
else, are all there. The figures 30 are
painted upon the headlight, denoting that
Dakota will be the thirty ninth State when
admitted to the Union. Accompanying the
locomotive is a baggage car aud sleeper,
perfect in form, and constructed of Dakota
grains aud grasses. The whole is the work
Of Vim. Sibben, of Aberdeen, aud has oc-
cupied his time for about three weeks. II
is very ereditable display of ingenuity,
taste, and patience.