Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-06
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called upon to entertain the thousands OF
visitors who will attend the exposition. Hi.
nois has had its Worlds fair; San Francisco
has had its Midwinter fair; Georgia has had
its cotton exposition; Philadelphia has had
its Centennial, and thousands upon thou.
sands have traversed the country from north
to south, from east to west, to attend them,
AS a result money has been expended freely,
ideas have been exchanged, preJudices
have been destroyed, new homes and new
friends have been made; life and energy have
been infused into the states in which the
attractions have been held. and the country
for hundreds of miles about has been mate
rally benefited. Let the entire west keep
open house in 1898 during the exposition,
and let us return a hundred fold the hospi-
tally of the east and south. They will like
us more when they know us better, and
hundreds will be induced to take up their
homes among us. Iowa should be especially
anxious to make II a success for the benefit
we derive from it cannot fail to be of a
character which will help to add new enter
prises to our state.
Hokah CMinn) Chief. The Chief Is In
receipt of a copy of the Transmississippi
Exposition issue of The Omaha Daily Bee,
giving a graphic account OF the birth of
the project of the great exposition to be
held in that city beginning in June and
ending in November 1898. The Bee also
gives a lattering description of each of the
states west of the Mississippi whose wonder
full resources are to be shown to the world
in the coming great Transmissis-
sippi and International Exposition.
The states included, Minnesota be-
ing to the front, are the great
granary of America, contain within their
boundaries about all the gold and silver
mines of the country, as well as rich depos-
its Of every known metal; also embracing
the greatest timber belt on the North Amer
lea continent and being rich in numerous
other resources. The states interested are
making appropriations and preparations for
the best possible representation of their in
dividual resources and Minnesota should not
be slow in doing likewise. A liberal appro-
priation should be made by the legislature
now in session sufficient to give Minnesota
a seat in the front row at the exposition.
Money economically and judiciously in
vested in advertising is never lost.
Louisiana Mo.) News: The Omaha Daily
Bee got out a large edition of a handsome
twenty-page paper last week, booming the
great Transmississlppi Exposition to be held
in Omaha in 1898. 1t is desired to have the
resources Of all the states, and especially
those of the transmississippi region repre-
scented at the exposition, and if The Bees
enterprise is a fair sample of what will be
done for 1t, the exposition will be one of the
biggest successes of the century.
Morris (Minn.) Tribune: The suggestion
thrown out by The Omaha Bee a little over
a year ago for a Transmississippi and Inter
national Exposition is now taking root and
promises to equal the Worlds fair at Chi
cago, and in many instances Guido the lat
ter. 1t is about time the people west of the
Mississippi awoke to their energy and let
the eastern people know what we are built
of. Let every western state join in with the
exposition. 1t is the best way imaginable
to advertise and show the resources to be
developed in this vast domain.
Abbott (Tex.) Graphic: The T~ransmissis-
sippi Exposition to be held at Omaha in 1898
will be the biggest boom for the west and
southwest that it has ever received at any
one time from any one undertaking. 1t
was advertising that made of the west what
it is today, and it was advertising of the
southeast through the Atlanta exposition
that turned the great tide of immigration
and capital from the west to that section.
The Omaha Exposition of 1898 will set forth
the advantages of the limitless resources of
our own states. and thus attract once more
the attention of home-seekers and investors,
give western land its real value, make those
who are already here happy, as well as those
to come. The state legislature of Texas
should appropriate its quota, erect a Texas
building and give an exhibit that would
show to the world the advantages of the
great Lone Star state.