Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-06-27
DOING GOOD EXHIBIT WORK
North Dakota Force at St. Louis Doing
Good Work In Presenting The Re-
sources of the State.

Gushing writes from the, St. Louis
Fair: By actual count on several days
we find the daily visitors to the two
booths in the agriculture building
averaged 5000 which is vastly more
than other states can say, and while
the state exhibit does not seem to
have favorably impressed the editorial
association there seems to be some
thing about it that brings the people
and believe more good for the state
has been accomplished than If half
the appropriation hand been spent for
a state building and it's maintenance.
But there Is a great diversity Of opin-
ion regarding state buildings. For
instance, the prevailing idea is that
every state represented at the expo
sition has state building, while in
fact thirteen have none. every one of
which has larger appropriation than
North Dakota. some OF them having a
hundred or two thousand more.
Several of the buildings were built
from private subscriptions for that
purpose or by rich individuals, and
while some of the states have fine
buildings, they have no exhibits in
any Of the exhibition palaces, like
Ohio, for instance. And four states
are not represented in any way at the
exposition, SO it will be seen that it is
a matter entirely of judgment on the
part of the commissioners from the
several states.
From the above it vii! lie seen that
some of the newspaper boys we're mis-
taken when they said every state had
a building While our newspaper men
were unhappy because North Dakota
had no building, the Minnesota editors
are roasting their commission because
they had put up such poor one, and
Minnesota's building is away more
costly than lots of others. The Mis-
sissippi commission is getting it
where the chicken got the ak for the
same reason and the governor had to
come up to pour barrel of water on
the troubled waters. The commits
sioners of North Dakota have the con-
ISOLATION Of knowing they are not alone
in being "cuffed into a peak" by their
home people and are trying to be hap
py in the maxim that misery loves
company"
A California -four and produce deal.
er visited us the other day and said
his people had gotten taste of North
Dakota's macaron1 -four and that some.
thing had to be done to satisfy them !;
that the dealers had either to ship in
the wheat and grind It or buy the
-four, the latter probably being the
outcome as he doubted whether their
millers would change their mills to
grind such grain. He was given the
address of several North Dakota mil
lers who make macaroni -four and
said he would visit the state on his
way home. Another dealer in Indian
apolis had the same story to tell and
was given the address Of the millers
and several macaroni grain risers
Still another dealer from Pittsburg
said he had been supplying eight
macaroni factories in that city with
| western flour for making macaroni
also had imported the -four from Mar.
sailles, France, for them; that If
North Dakota Vas producing the mac
aroni -four such as he saw exhibited
and tested here he could buy cheaper
from us and get better goods than by
| importing. He will visit North Dako-