The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-01
WANT UTAHEXHIBITS
Missouri Managers and the Prop
osition They Make.
A NEW SOUTHERN COMPANY
The Real Estate saIes-A Drummers Camp
Neeting-The Question of Primary
Rights-Brief Business Bits.

The following letter has been received
| by Governor Thomas from H. D. Perkey,
president of the National Railway, Elec-
trio and Industrial Exposition association
at ST. Joseph, Mo, under date of July %,
1899. eI
We have taken the liberty tossend you
this day by express an invitation to be
present at the New Era exposition. to be
held at st. Joseph, Mo, September to Oc-
tober inclusive:
In an honest endeavor to attract popula-
ton and capital, the western territories
have long displayed u spirit OF active
rivalry, and have expended large sums of
money that the products of their soil and
mines, their climatic advantages, and other
inducements to emigration might be laid
before the people Of the eastern states An
opportunity to Thoroughly present almost
every inducement to emigration which
your territory can offer the house-Seeker
viii be here offered your people at an ex-
pense so small as to be scarcely worthy of
consideration when the advantages to be
desired are so patent.
AS our exposition is national in scope and
character, it will attract hither many thou
sands of persons from all parts of the
country, and the products of the great west
will certainly receive special attention
from the eastern visitors. When they re-
turn to their eastern homes they viii bear
to those who were not fortunate enough to
attend the exposition the most graphic de-
scriptions of what they saw, and of the
displays made by the territories which they
had hitherto regarded only as the homo Of
the Indian and the wild beast, and as the
breeding ground of the long horned steer.
These descriptions will find their way into
the public prints, and from the exhibits
made the territories will receive more
thorough and more effective advertising
than they could otherwise secure at an out
lay of large sums of money. The unbiased
testimony of eye-Witnesses will carry with
it the most convincing weight, where the
printed pen-pictures of the voluable adver-
Using agent would be read and cast aside
with natural suspicion. In this intellec-
tual age the people regard eXtravagantly
worded advertisements with dubious eyes,
and wink knowingly at each other over
what they believe to be attractively baitcd
traps to catch their hard Learned money.
The logic of the presentation of sterling
facts must be apparent to you, land your own
intelligence cannot but compel you TO see
the truth of the argument presented. An
attractive display at a national exhibition
will present to the masses indisputable
ocular evidence of the wealth and advan-
tages possessed by the territories repre-
scented. While beautifully worded adver-
tisement read at a distance would be re
garded as but the effort of a brainy writer
who has drawn largely upon his magma
ton for coloring for his extrayagantly col
Ored picture.
Should your territory have not vet as
sumed g prominent place in the ranks OF
cereal growing localities, you could Ger
tainly make an attractive display of fruits
an vegetables, and no better opportunity
could be afforded your mining operators to
exhibit the evidence of your underground
wealth. While no premiums have been
offered for mineral exhibits, every facility
will be afforded mining men to place their
ores in attractive form for the inspection
of visitors, and from information already
at hand, it is expected that a marked spirit
of rivalry will be exhibited between the
mineral producing districts of the west.
In order that the exhibit from your terri
tory may be in competent hands, our asso-
citation has directed its president TO request
you to appoint commissioner, whose duty
it will be to exercise general supervision
over the various exhibits which may be
brought thither, and who will be recog-
pized as the official representative of your
territory at the exposition. Every facility
for making an attractive display will be at
forded him, and the management will en-
deavor to render his visit to st. Joseph one
of rofit to his territory and of pleasure to
himself.
BY reference to the premium lists, etc,
sent you this day, under separate cover.
you will note that the exposition will be
given in honor of the creation of the de-
partment of agriculture, and representa-
ton in the Presidents cabinet of the agri-
cultural industries of the country. You
will also observe that our most liberal cash
premiums are offered for farm products,
thus expressing just recognition Of the
labors Of the tiliers of the soil, while tho
horse jockey, who at the majority of such ex
hibitions, pockets the the lions share of the
gate receipts and other revenues has been
ignored. This new departure has been
hailed with joy by the farmer element, and
is meeting with the most hearty recon-
mendation from both the country and
metropolitan press.
We hope that you will lend US your earn
est cooperation, and that we may be adj
vised at an early day of the appointment of
the commission mentioned.