Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-04-29

and $4,000 in 1893. The competitive ex.
hibit OF wheat, grasses, oats, ETC., will be
IN the main agricultural building where
exhibits from other states are made. This
10 one huge structure and the space al
lowed to North Dakota is 4Ox5O feet. The
state exhibit of forestry will be in the
forestry building, the exhibit of educa-
ton in the buildingo of liberal arts, that of
minerals in the mines and mining build
ing. making the entire state exhibit scat
tered in four buildings. No advertising
is allowed to be distributed, and no pho
tographs exhibited in the buildings. 1t
will be absol utely necessary, if North
Dakota is to secure a successful result
from her exhibit, to provide a state build
ing, in which our entire exhibit can be
duplicated and arranged and
presented to the public to the best ad-
vantage. This building to be a deposit
tory for the samples and products of the
state, which collection will illustrate our
natural Other uses of the
building will be for specially advertising
our resources, entertaining strangers, a
meeting place for friends and acquaint-
ances; keeping men there, posted on the
st ate, to answer inquiries; for exhibiting
enlarged photographs of the towns,
villages, farm scenes, cattle and sheep
ranches md o4borw,co opdooyor;nr RI
show people that we live in a civilized
part of the country and the inhabitants
of North Dakota do not occupy dugouts.
The building should be decorated on the
interior and made attractive. Other
states will have fine buildings, the Min
nesota headquarters,ione Of the cheapest,
costing $25,000. Texas, our direct COM
petitor for emigration, has raised a fund
of 100000 and expects to make it a half
million. If we do not do something in
the way of a state building we will
suffer by comparison. The %appropria-
ton of $25,0OO is not enough to do what is
absolutely necessary if we are to have a
building. The plans drawn show a very
neat and commod;ous structure of two
stories, the cost of which will not exceed
$4,000.
"What can people do, who go to the
Fair" says Mr.. Tyler, "witheut they
have headquarters? Will they go into
the Kansas OF the Minnesota buildings?
The state ought to have pride enough to
provide a suitable headquarters of her
own"
AS to the number of visitors, the esti-
mates vary, but every one who possibly
can, is arranging to go from all over the
union. In the Philadelphia exhibition
the average daily attendance was $4,000
and at the Worlds Fair it will be more
than twice that. People will go if they
have to mortgage their COW for the neces-
sary funds.
The citizens of this state, says MI.
Tyler, have not yet awakened to the
Importance of the enterprise, and will
III ~ wv ioVo IL dCCtOA 10 Aoo ldhou
soon.
The subscription fund to the extra
$4,000 needed for the expenses of the
long exhibition is growing. 1t began by
Cass county men subscribing literally.
This fund is not regarded as a gift with
out any returns to follow. The Dwight
farm company owns $4,000 acres of land
in Steele county. If they get in ten
families it will pay them for their
donation of $1,000. In the same way,
the of cheap lands in the western
part of the state will be benefited as
emigrants cannot take tho high priced
lands of the Red River valley.