Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-08-06
SOUTH DAKOTA AT The FAIR
She'll Have the Best Seat at the
Big Show.
Progress of the Columbian Exposition
work-Money Needed hat the
states Building May BE Fin
ished by October.

this week, while attending the Corn
Belt Real Estate association, gave
your correspondent the following
interesting report of progress Of the
work up TO date:
The agricultural exhibit including
the crops and complete specimens
showing the flora and entomology of
the state, also exhibits of soils and
waters and q collection OF fossils from
the Cheyenne river country and from
some of the western counties, have
been assigned to the Brookings College
of Agriculture, with President Nc
Louth acting as general chairman,
Professor Foster, director of the
experimental station, looking after
the agricultural products, and other
professors in their special lines.
The experimental farm has already
very fine specimens of all the valuable
grains and grasses and besides these
representative collections from every
county in the state will be brought in.
The State horticultural society,
uuuCT llC hllNNllOD Vi L iuS d -"
Warner, of Sanborn county, will get
up the horticultural exhibit and will
make their first showing at the state
fair this fall where they expect TO have
over 100 varities of apples grown in
south Dakota, and other fruits g show
the condition Of that industry in this
state.
A committee of the dairymen's asso-
c%iatlon, under the Craftsmanship OF a..
b. Smedley, of MilbanlI, assisted by a.
l. Van Osdel, of Gankton, and Mrs
Judge Bennett, of Clark, will make a
dairy exhibit at the state fair eXem-
p~lifying to some extent what it will be
under their management at the
worlds fair. The wool growers
association furnish the wool and
will make their exhibit at the
worlds fair, Colonel j. t. Geddes, Of
Beadle county, having that matter in
charge. Major +. L. B. Coffin, of HUI
ron, will apply his thorough knowl-
edge of the artesian and other water
systems of the state to n showing of
all our water supplies, including the
subject of irrigation y meetinr is
soon to be held wherein the OF CO.'S
and professors of the school Of m.lcs,
the state university, the UNCONVENTIONAL
colleges, representatives of our mining
and quarry companies, cement works,
ETC., will arrange by sections the gem
eral scheme of bringing all the scien-
tifc aud economic geology of the state,
including u grand showing of the
Black HILLS metallurgy into the eXhi-
bit. Arrangements have been made
for an extensive showing OF the state
by systems of maps, photographs and
sketches.
The work OF collecting specimens is
already under way and in a very short
time there will be a system of county
agencies for cooperation with all the
chi is Of committees in charge Of the
different departments of exhibits, and
every thing of interest in all the couu-
ties will be included, and a statement
will shortly be issued to the press of
the state calling upon the people for
loans and contributions Of various ar
ticles that are wanted, asking them to
report to their county committees
whatever they have to offer.
The money that has been pledged TO
the use of the commission is coming in
fast enough to keep the work of col
lecting exhibits going, but the execu-
tive committee of the commission is at
a ~standstill just now about putting the
state building in course of erection be-
cause there has not been money
enough forwarded to the treas
urer to justify them in making
Being business men themselves and
accustomed to business methods they
must have the money in hand or in
bankable shape within their reaca
before they can make n contract for
the erection of the building. Archi-
tect W.. l. Dow, of Sioux falls, has
given them plans for a state building,
two stories in height, coataing L., 600
feet of floor space, with plenty of ex-
hibit room and all the apartments
necessary for doing business at the
fair and to furnish the people of the
state with convenient headquarters.
The building has been designed in
form and finish to correspond with its
location and surroundings under the
advice Of the director general and the
chief of construction of the fair, and
the plans have been approved by them.
1t is to be built of lumber, surfaced
with Yankton cement, in imitation of
cut stone. and will cost, includ-
ing the foundations and plumbing,
and finished inside and out,
s12, 900 and not any more. The com
mission wished TO limit the building to
$40, 900, but found that 81, 900 more
must be added to make it satisfactory
and creditable to t G state. The
South Dakota building site is the most
prominent location and in every event
the mos. desirable location of any
state building at the fair. 1t is at the
first corner, at the Fifty-seventh street
entrance, the first entrance in APP
preaching the fair from the Chicago
side, where IL is said more people will
enter the fair grounds than at any
other point The building will
be fronted both TO this entrance and
the park OF art galleries on the oppo-
site side, where it will co nmand q
vie Y of the frontage of the entire state
bull ling system
II is very important hat this build
ing shall be completed at least on the
outside at the time of the dedi-
cation of the fair buildings
on the llth, 18th and 18th of next
October, when it Is estimated from one
TO two millions of people will go there
for the inspection of the fair grounds
and the buildings and TO participate in
the ceremonies and the grand parade.
This cannot be done unless the press
of the state and public spirited citizens
everywhere will take right hold at
once and see TO 1t that the county
quotas OF money are forwarded TO the
commission or placed in the shape of
bankable guarantees so as to justify
the commission in going 10 work at
once on the building, which will take
at least sixty days TO get it in shape
tc show the outside. All the com
mission is asking is s25. 900, to be used
before the legislature meets next
winter, on the building, the exhibits
and to pay the expenses of the com
mission. II the people OF the state
to see n building which they will
be pleased with and an exhibit they
will be proud of ut the fair. it Is time
all the counties were gotten into line
to supply the r share of tho money.
The slowcst counties in the state at
present TO raise the money are the
ones that never have had any trouble
about their crops. and there seems to
some hitch between the business