The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-10-12
Has Proven Successful Beyond
Expectations.
A COMPLETE LIST OF AWARDS
The Finest Display of Fruit and Neget
ables Ever Displayed in the
Northwest.
Spokane. Wash. Oct. 8.


exhibits at the fair is the Yakima ex-
hibit, which is in the northwest corner |
of the main building. The manage |
ment are indebted to the efforts of one |
enterprising man, e. f. Benson of |
North Yakima, one of the leading hor- |
ticulturists of the state, for this splen-
did addition to the fair. Mr.. Benson, |
after exhausting every effort to induce
the North Yakima Commercial Club
to take the matter up and send an
exhibit to the fair, tackled it alone, and
brought an exhibit that is not only a
credit to his own enterprise, but to the
entire Yakima valley. The Commercial
Club declined to make an exhibit be-
cause the county fair was coming on,
and the members did not think it advis-
able to attempt to make any exhibit
unless they could make a first class
one.
The exhibit is purely a commercial
exhibit, showing the products as they
are prepared for market. The bulk of
the exhibits are from single farm,
and were furnished by f. r. Thomp-
son of Zillah. A splendid photograph
of this farm, five feet long, conveys an
excellent idea of its magnitude and re-
sources Mr.. Thompson has Go acres of
bearing orchard. This year he raised
over 100000 pounds of prunes. These
are shown to splendid advantage in
the exhibit. Each variety, including
the French, or petite, Italian, Silver
and Hungarian, is exhibited green in
crates as they are packed for market.
and also dried. Concord grapes, as fine
as ever came from New York, are
shown, and there is one buncn of Flame
Tokay grapes that fills a two-gallon
jar. Rome Beauty, Ben Davis and yell
low Bellfower apples of fine quality are
also shown, each of which took the first
prize yesterday.
Splendid hops, both in bales and on
poles, are shown, and also alfalfa in
p bale. The exhibit includes broom corn
with a 30-inch broom, and Mr.. Benson
says the broom factories no longer need
to send east for broom corn. The sam
pie shown was grown by b. r. At
kinson of Belma, Yakima county. Four
cases of comb honey and two dozen
jars of strained honey from the apiary
of Charles Lee at Yakima City is an
attractive part of the exhibit. Mr.. Lee
says his best market for honey is Spo-
kane. The bees feed principally on the
flower of the alfalfa, which blooms be-
fore each cutting, three or four times
a year. Full cream cheese, made by
only looks tempting, but the visitors
know it is good for there is a cake
ION tap" all the time. Mr.. Carpenter
took first prize at the Tacoma EXPOSE
ton last year and also at the state
fair.
Next to bale of alfalfa is a large
photograph showing $50 beef cattle
grazing in an S0-acre field of alfalfa,
which comes up to their sides. although
it is the third crop this year. over
another photograph is the inscription,
Irrigation Is King" This picture
gives a birdseye view of the lower Ash
tanum valley, two miles west of North
Yakima, showing dozens of 10 and 20
acre farms, with the farm houses, or
chards, fields, schoolhouses, and the
hills beyond. All of this valley is in a
high state of cultivation, and is only
one of many similar fertile valleys in
that county. A number of other large
photographs showing Concord grapes
growing in the vineyard, farm scenes,
orchards, etc, give the visitor a splen-
did idea of what he would see on a
visit to the famous Yakima country
The whole exhibit is a splendid illustra-
ton of what can be produced by irriga-
ton. over the exhibit is a large sign
that reads: 1.-THE land of unfailing
crops and ideal homes. over 1OOO OC
acres reclaimed by irrigation and ready
for settlers at reasonable prices anC
on easy terms"
LINCOLN COUNTY EXHIBIT.
Yesterday reference was made to thu
three splendid district and county ex
hibits in the west room, in the Odd Eel
lows building. which is now referred t.
as 1.-The three states ROOM" because
contains exhibits from the three state
of Washington, Oregon and Idaho, In
latter being represented by the eXhibi
from Latah county Washington by tn
Whitman county exhibit, and Oregon
by the exhibit from Milton, Umatill'
county.
In the next ROOM adjoining the mail
building, are three splendid exhibit
from three counties of this state-Lin
coin, Stevens and Spokane.
The first exhibit encountered upo,
entering is the Wilbur district eXhibi
in charge of J. H. Friedlander, owne
of the Whitestone fruit farm on tn
Columbia river, who worked like Trc
jan to get up a good exhibit from tina
section, and how well he succeeded tn
exhibit tells for itself
Included in The district exhibit is
superb individual display from NJ
Friedlander's splendid fruit farm, an
above it are cards bearing the inscriI
ton: RAISED by irritation and not b
irrigation" The individual exhibit IL
cludes everything raised an a first elias
fruit farm. The peach melons, the onl
one shown at the fair. attract much a
tention. They are of an orange colo