The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-15

Whatever other import the Pan
American exposition may have and what
ever else it may teach, it certainly has
served well to emphasize the greatness
OF the state of Minnesota and to change
the name of that northern land from
the Gopher to the Bread and Butter
State"
Indeed a casual glance at Minnesota
as represented at the local exposition
makes the new name singularly appro-
pirate, for it speaks from nearly all the
displays.
The deep straw color and white of the
Minnesota building over in the court Of
state and foreign structures is symbolic
of the staff of life and the adjunct that
furnishes such delightful accommoda-
ton combination with bread. The wheat
and flour exhibits tell marvellous tale OF
what Minnesota actually produces for
making bread, and the butter in the
dairy building reminds that the state has
developed an enormous production along
dairy lines. In Mines horticulture and
agriculture in all their separate branches
there are shown results that bring the
whereWith to purchase bread and but
ter, even though these two important
commodities were not indigenous to the
state Itself.
When one studies Minnesota at the
Pan-American exposition and realizes
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scarcely twenty-five years, he is apt to
pause in bewilderment and Involuntary
wonders what can be the future of
state which has accomplished so much
in such a short space of time.
Yet the memory of many of our older
citizens runs back to the days when
Minnesota was a mere wilderness and
her broad expenses as undeveloped as
they are perfected today.
To tell the story of this state would
require mach space, but to learn of many
of its characteristic points one need but
to view the exhibit which it displays, for
in general the commissioners in charge
Of the display have sought to express a
few of the most trite and remarkable
facts about the state and its resources.
Cold facts are often in themselves
heavy and tiresome, but when an expo
sition visitor wanders into the dairy
building at the Rainbow City and beholdS
the artistic and architecturally- perfect
model of the capitol building of Mime
sofa carved from the finest outer that
can be made, he becomes interested.
Almost 1400 pounds OF butter of the
highest grade, furnished by the Cres-
cent creamery of St. Paul. were used
in the construction of the model. 1t is
five feet four inches from the top of the
dome to the green velvet, which natural
~ represents the lawn of the new CAPT,
tOl. ana II Is eleven I6eC eight 1ncneS
long and seven feet through from side
to side of the building 1t would make
quite a comfortable play house for chill
dren, as to size, but as the butter house
which represents Minnesota's creates
industry is kept in a refrigerator room
it would scarcely prove enjoyable as
playhouse. And this leads to the con
structiOn of the butter model of Mime
sofas 100000 state house.
K. Daniels, a st. Paul sculptor of con
siderable note, who was educated ant
studied his art in st. Paul. He has beel
modelling in butter two years. His frs
piece that attracted attention was a GOV
and dairymaid of butter, displayed dur
ing the Minnesota State fair of 1900, Il
dairy hall
Inquiry reveals the facts that tn
model is the largest of its kind ever at
tempted, as is the glass refrigerator i
which it is kept. And as one goes to in
Vestigate further he learns that Mime
sofa is among the foremost dairying sec
tons in the whole world. There are a
present In the state over 650,000 head Q
COWS, and last year the value of the but
ter manufactured aggregated Sic. 779 80
while cheese to the amount of $252, 712 wa
made in the sixty factories throughou
the state during the past twelve months
The quality is well known the worl
over, and Minnesota butter is a synonym
for first premiums and gold medals z
expositions and worlds fairs.
In 1884 Minnesota won the Sweepstake
at the New Orleans cotton exposition
in 1898, won first premium at the world
fair, Chicago; in 1886, gold and silve
medals at the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, M
tional creamery contest; in 1897, gol
medal and silver cup at the contest of til
National Creamery Buttermakers' assc
citation, in Owatonna
AT the National Buttermakers' CONVEX
tlon' held in st. Paul, in 1901, where thel
was much larger number of entire