New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-08-12
Ho,c Minnesota Has Gained.

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Lake City, Special, Aug. 4.-The
following communication from Com
missioner Oliver Gibbs, Jr., of this city,
to Major Burke. has been furnished
your correspondent, by request, for
publication in the Pioneer Press:
Major E. A. Barke, late Director
General Worlds Exposition, New Or
leans-My dear Sir: You ask me to
state, within the limit of 1000 words,
what benefit has resulted to the state of
Minnesota from it's connection with the
Worlds exposition at New Orleans.
1t has increasedithe market value of
Minnesota creamery butter five cents
per pound over that of rival states. so
our dealers inform me, as the result of
the award to cur state of the grand
sweepstakes for the best butter made in
the world. The annual butter proGact
of Minnesota is estimated by Gov. Hub
bard at 80, COO, 900 pounds. Assuming
that one-third of this is creamery butter
(and if it is not it ougth to be. we gain
in one year, from the exposition, half
million dollars. The second year, it
is fair to presume we shall gain enough
more to make the profit equal to the
million loan to the exposition from con-
gress; and in the third year we could
pay up the final aid from congress with
ont any discrimination against residents
of Louisiana. In about five years we
shall have made enough Of this profit
on our butter to call for the next
worlds exposition at St. Paul and
Minneapolis, and not want any help
from the government. So you see that
Gov. Hubbard was very modest when
he wrote me in January last that the
award on our dairy products, which
included over twenty other fine pre-
miums, were of value greater than the
cost Of our entire state exhibit In this
estimate am counting nothing for the
value of gratified state pride, increase
of production, extension of our markets,
or for the increased value of dairy pro-
ducts that we consume ut home and do
not sell, in the realization of the pro-
ducing consumer as to the superior
flavor of his own butter, when he eats
it, from this new testimony to its
superior quality. Certainly it is worth
something to the Minnesota farmer to
laugh and grow fat in consuming his
own excellent product.
We made a demonstration, also, of
the immensely superior strength and
quality of our Minnesota hard wheat
tlours at the exposition, and of their
keeping qualities for Southern markets.
After keeping our 200 barrels of this
flour six months in our state exhibit in
the government building, through your
rainy season and Il portion of your hot
summer, your New Orleans dealers
took it off our hands at first prices,
while soft wheat flour so exhibited,
went begging to customers at any
price. Probably we are, or soon shall
be million ahead rs the result of this
exhibit. The children of the South are
expected to cry for bread made of such
flour from Minnesota, thereby extend
ing our markets greatly. A little more
muscle is required in the kneading of
hard spring wheat -four, but 4 barrel
of it makes enough more muscle to sup
ply this extra kueading. and gives a
laboring man an added percentage of
bodily strength, equal to about
months more work for it in each year.
The elite also want it for its creamy
beauty and delicious flavor. We adj
vertised our summer resorts attractive
~ there to bring lots of money to Min
nesota and lots of comfort to our many
thousand Southers visitors. We dis
tributed over one hundred thousand
pamphlets advertising the state. l
am not overwhelmed with letters from
Southerners or any others asking ad.
vice where to settle or when to come;
but l live where can see the cars. and
as the trains all going north are crowd
ed, l think great many people. having
read our pamphlets, have believed
everything found in them and are COM
ing right along. You did not ask me
what Minnesota went into the EXPOSE
ton for. It was no. to make money.