Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-11-18
STATES GREAT BENEFIT
Great Benefit to the State from the
Exhibit of the State at Pan
American.
Visitors Were Especially Impressed
with the Exhibit Of North
Dakota Corn.
Balance of $500 from Appropriation
and Suggested it Go Toward
Securing Exhibits.

the state from Buffalo, in an interview
the Pan-American exposi
tion and the state display. says:
Il return to the state more than
ever impressed with it's desirability in
every way as a place of residence and
a six-months' stay in the east has
shattered all the old idols I had en-
shrined as to it's being more pleas
ant abiding place than the west. Elk
cept for one or two days during the
past month it was impossible to keep
warm at Buffalo as the damp winds
cut one to the bone, and in my judg-
ment the winds there are worse and
more of it than here.
"The fact that the exposition was
a financial failure has impressed many
with the idea it was fizzle all around,
but to those who could see beyond the
midway fakes it was far more beau
tiful. in most respects, than the
Worlds Fair, and it is the opinion Of
those who looked into the matter that
the returns from the states exhibit at
the Pan-American will far exceed any
similar Investment
s'For the first half of the exposition
our exhibit was not what it should
have been, but it was the best obtain
able at that time. Yet North Dakota
was one of the three states awarded
gold medal for the excellence of its
exhibit and this before one item of
the crop of 1901 was shown.
From the time this years products
began to appear in the exhibit, to the
last day. the booth was crowded with
astonished visitors, and all hands
were kept busy answering inquiries.
''The judges of vegetables. although
New York men, made no bones about
saying our exhibit, while not covering
half the space of many others, was
beyond question the finest shown, and
they told us nearly every article had
total entries in this class were so mum
erous it will take some weeks before
the awards can be tabulated and made
known.
perhaps no exhibit made more i'm
preston on visitors than our corn dis
play The expression, you are a
long way from home where corn won t
grow had been generally attached to
North Dakot and it required much
eloquence and reference to official doc
| uments-and Professor Waldron's let
ter of certifcation-to convince some
that the specimens were actually
grown here. To most visitors the
corn was a convincing proof that the
country was not the cold, cherries
waste they imagined 1T and they said
they would convey the news to many
ait home who were looking westward
for new homes. Many ears of corn
were carried away for seed and WE
took care that it was properly labeled
as being North Dakota dent North
Dakota Mortgage LITTER North Da
| kota Mastodon,' etc. The northwest
ern dent corn grown by Will & Co.
Bismarck, and successfully tested this
year by Briggs & Co., the great Roch
ester, N Y, seednan, will be put OF
the market next season by them undel
the name of North Dakota Dent
The awarding Of a silver media
second prize, to the state for corn, at
tracted general attention, many of thu
Buffalo city and New York state agri
cultural papers containing articles OF
the prospective early appearance O
| North Dakota among the great corl
producing states. In, nearly evc1.
case the notices were prophetic of en-
HANGED prosperity to follow, as the.
all predict rapid strides toward diver
sifled farming and great development
in dairy, cattle and pork interests a
a result of corn culture. The fulfill
Iment of this prophecy lies with on
farmers. viii they hasten ar retar
the predicted prosperity ?s4,srss 49,. ,.,.,
nother beneficial result. of on
!. corn display was the removal of pre-
Il 5udices frolIa the minds OF wealthy me
against us as one cfop state. Mean
ct them said they had freauently bee
q requested to invest in North Dakot
] land On mortgages but they had ds
elined because we only raised wheat
but lie NE could raise corn like tia