The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-01-18
HE ISSUES A CIRCULAR LETTER
Idaho's New Worlds Fair Commission.
er Heard From

hOu. y. M' els, lOanO'e WOrlOl
Fair Com missioner, has issued circular
letter from his off ce in Boise City fron
which we copy the leading portions. l
will be seen that he has the andacty tc
assert in his letter that "California
! Washington, Oregon and Montana have
had their boom; their palmiest days
days for rapid progress has passed. Ida.
hos is yet to come" This is a pretty
good starter for Mr., Wells, but we fear
that Idaho's "booui" would be long
while coming if Mr.. Wells were an es-
ssntial factor in it, judging from the
style of this circular
Boise CITY, IDAHO, Jan. IL, 1892.
1t is believed to be the earnest desire
of all her citizens that the young State
of Idaho should keep fully abreast with
her sisters of the north west in the great
march of material progress. That she
may do this, no opportunity for ad-
vancement broad enough in its scope
and promises to move into active effort
anu aCStfo iioiofSiy otato ~ VI y nion,
should be allowed to pass without leay-
ing with Idaho her full proportion OF
all the benefits to be derived.
Upon the very threshold of our en-
trance into statehood such an opportu-
nifty is presented.
The Colum bian Exposition to be held
in Chicago in 1898, will afford US an op-
portunity that cannot occur again in the
next four hundred years, to exhibit to
the world the unparalleled advantages
to be found within our borders.
The benefits 10 tho State to be de-
rived from such an exhibition, if thor
oughly, honestly and conscientiously
carried out, cannot be measured by a
monied estimate. Among the millions
who will visit the great Fair, there will
be many thousands who go for the pnr-
pose of examining the exhibit, that
they may there learn at glance the
special and peculiar advantages offered
by each State to settlers, having 10 view
the paramount object OF intimately
changing and bettering their conditions
in life. California, Washington, Ore
gon and Montana have had their
''boom." Their palmiest day for rapid
progress has passed. Idaho's is yet to
come.
The legislature has already appropri-
ated twenty thousand dollars to be ex-
pended in making this exhibit. This
sum, although small and inadequate for
such an undertaking, will be 30 expend-
ed. This is the law. But that it may be
well and profitably expended,it becomes
necessary that each and every citizen
who has his own material welfare, and
that of the State at heart, must not only
lend bis earnest sympathy, but in some
way should contribute material aid in
forwarding this great work. BY 80 do
ing the success of the undertaking will
be assured, the burden will be light and
fall equally upon the shoulders OF all.
We cannot afford to let this opportunity
pass.
The Commissioner for Idaho, within
as short period as the work can be ac-
complished, will visit every prominent
locality in the State, either in person or
by his secretary, for the purpose Of or
ganizing Worlds Fair Commission in
every county. One or more duly ac-
credited Assistant ommissioners (men
and women) resident of the county, es-
pecially selected for their knowledge of
its resources, and capacity for collecting,
classifying and organizing for each
county's exhibit, will be appointed, and
all matters pertaining to the work of
each county, will be delegated to them,
the Com missioner retaining a general
supervision of all. In this way it is be-
lieved local pride and am bition can be
aroused, and good deal of assistance
obtained at comparatively small ex-
pense to the State. When these organ
izations are perfected, pamphlet for
general distribution will be circulated,
naming the county commissioners ana
specifying the labor which they are ex-
pected to perform, with all the details
of the work in the State at large.
Those interested or employed in the
various branches of agriculture, horti- /
culture and stock raising are expected I
to contribute, and should begin NOW to
form their plans and set aside their
grounds, preparatory to raising an ex-
hibit for both the years 1892 and 1898,
80 that if the crop of the present year