The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1901-11-23
Report of State Fair Committee

ors of Douglas county, Wisconsin
GENTLEMEN:-The undersigned, >
committee appointed by your homo,
able body, by resolution adopted Jul!
%, 1901, which resolution is as follows
ta-wit: Resolved, that the count,
board of Douglas county will aid IL
exhibiting the agricultural and Other
productions Of Douglas county at the
Wisconsin State Fair and other places
this fall, by an appropriation of Five
Hundred Dollars in money; such ex
hibittons to be made under the direc-
ton of David Dobie, William H. Webb
and n Lucius Jr. (see Vol. of Pro
ceedings of County Board, page $50
beg TO report as follows:
Fist. Pursuant to said reso'uE On
we Immediately took such steps rs
we deemed necessary to collect from
all parts of the county samples of all
kinds of grains, vegetables, fruits.
grasses, clovers, fodder crops and
other productions Of the county, and
during the first week of September
last collected and shipped to the Wis
consin State Fair a carload of said
productions, which we exhibited at
said State Fair during the second
week in September securing the prize
for the third best exhibit from any
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Second After the State Fair we
shipred the said exhibit to the Wal
worth County Fair, held at Elkhorn,
Wis during the third week in Sep
TENDER 1901, and exhibited same al
said County Fair during the entire
session thereof.
Third. We prepared and had print
ed 5000 copies of pamphlet, describ-
ing Douglas county and her agricul-
tural advantages, and we'll illustrated
with fine half tone reproductions of
Photographic views Of we'll known
farm buildings, stock, hay fields
grain. ETC., which we distributed to
the visiting farmers at state fairs.
Third. During the two weeks at
these two fairs we personally talked
with thousands of farmers from all
parts of Wisconsin and adjoining
states, and, we believe, accomplished
great good for the county thereby.
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preparation and exhibition of said
productions, we secured great many
writeups and favorable notices in our
local and state papers which has been
of great value in stimulating interest
in the farm lands of Douglas county
and which has resulted in the sale of
many tracts of land for Immediate i'm
provemenr.
Fifth. The value of our work at the
State and Walworth County Fairs has
already been proved by the fact that
since that time almost every real es
tate man in Superior has been kept
very busy showing these lands to
farmers from Wisconsin. Iowa ard
other states, who have come here
largely as the direct result of our
work. Many sales have already been
made to these visitors, who are al
most daily arriving, with their fami
lies, to make permanent citizens Of
this county.
Sixth. One direct result of our ex
hibit at the Walworth County Fair is
the purchase of a section of Douglas
county land, by gentleman who has
been identified with the creamery in
terests of the state since its infancy,
and who will within the next year es-
tablish and operate on said land a
first class, up-to date creamery. We
believe that the securing of this one
industry will more than repay US for
all our time and expense in making
the entire exhibit.
Seventh. Your committee has ex-
pended in time and money over $1,000
in this work.
Eighth. Believing that this work
should be continued, we recommend
that an appropriation be made this
year Of an amount sufficient to secure
similar exhibition next year, with
out the necessity Of the committee
being compelled, as was the case this
year, to pay all the expenses out of
their own pockets.
Respectfully submitted,
DAVID DoBIE,
w H. WEBB,