Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-08-02
NORTH DAkOTA'S SECTION
A MECCA FOR THOUSANDS
ROOSEVELT CABIN PROVES MOST
POPULAR OF ANY EXHIBIT AT 4
LEWIS AND CLARK FAIR.
STATE HAS EXCELLENT SHOW
ING OF. VARIED RESOURCES
8 AND INDUSTRIES.

Portland, Aug. 2.-The Roosevelt
cabin in the North Dakota section Of
the Agricultural building at the Lewis
and Clark exposition is perhaps the
most popular place on the exposition
grounds. Since the register of the
building was opened for signatures on
June Is, more than $4,000 people have
signed their names in the book. OF
this number, 1000 were North Dako.
tans.
The cabin is that in which Presi.
dent Roosevelt, then a cowboy, spent
three years in the eighties, and it
stands in the North Dakota section
just as 1t stood on the plains. The
initials "A. r." pounded in brass lacks
by Alice Roosevelt a year ago, are
found In the outer wall near the en-.
trance to the cabin, and have attracted
nearly as much interest as have the
relics of the presidents cowboy days
which are preserved in the cabin. An
old OK cart, the property of C. w.
Andrews of Walhalla, also has attract.
ed much interest. The cart is shown
just as it was when in use, with a
red OK hitched to it, and the OK wears
an old time harness of the crudest
workmanship. "A placard on the
strange equipage states that such an
outfit was used by J. J. Hill, the
Great Northern railroad magnate, on
! his first trip up the Red river valley.
North Dakota has a display, while
not so large as that made by several
other states, is decidedly attractive
and most artistically installed. It is
showing that should induce much
immigration to the state. North Da-
kota people who have visited it have
been proud Of the appearance of their
states display, and have taken occas-
ion to compliment W. N. Steele, the
executive commissioner, on the re-
suits of his labors.
On entering the Agriculture build
ing from the south, the visitor has one
of North Dakota's most important re-
sources impressed upon him most
vividly by plate glass pyramid filed
with flax. The pyramid is eight feet
square at the base and ten feet high.
A placard proclaims that North Da-
kota raises more than half the fax
raised in the United States" and
other placards state that 1.-THE average
North Dakota wheat yield. will give
every man, woman and child in the
state $140," that "The average wealth
per capita of North Dakota is over
81 ,000," and that 1.-THE public schools
Of North Dakota have an endowment
of land worth over $4,000, OOO."
North Dakota's cereal products are
used most effectively for decorative
purposes. The states space is en-.
closed by pergola, of which the pill
lars and frieze are of grain, enclosed
in plate glass. The freize is of corn,
and a variety of grains and grasses
are enclosed in the glass pillars
among them wheat, oats, barley
emmer, timothy, millet, red top, bronze
grass and clover.
There are in all eight cases of grains
and grasses in straw, all most artist
cally arranged, and one Of the cases
contains twenty-five varieties. Oats
six. feet tall are exhibited in one OF
the cases by Lieutenant Governor
David Bartlett Of Cooperstown. There
Is case each of wheat and grasses
from Towner county, and an excellent
collection of grains and grasses from
Rollette county. North Dakota.
threshed grain is displayed attractive
ly in inverted glass jars. A Jar o.
macaroni wheat which threshed 55K
bushels to the acre, grown by E. Bill
lings of Lisbon, has attracted much at
tention. Macaroni -four also is shown
| When Theodore Roosevelt wa,
deputy sheriff in his ranching days
twenty-one years ago, he delivered
the Fourth Of July Grafton at Dickin
son, in Stark county. Dickinson hai
at the fair one of the most interesting
Of North Dakota's displays, a collec
ton of remarkably fine pottery made
from Stark county clay. Utopian ant
Venetian ware is exhibited in shov
cases which extend across the from
Of the space, and there is also som,
wonderful glazed art ware made from
Stark county clay. The Dickinson
Fire & Pressed Brick company ha
made a display of its products, an,
Portland cement is exhibited by til,
4 Portland Cement company OF Gran,
Forks.
The decorative work on the Nortl
Dakota section was done by Senate
r. w. Main, who has conceived som
most original and pleasing effects
Il The back wall OF the booth has hee1