Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-12-07
SEATTLE WILL HOLD
WORLDS FAIR.


City Raises $65o.ooo IN one
Day.
Seattle An International exposition
is to be held in this city in the summer
of 1909. 1t has been named the Alaska
Yukon-Paciffc Exposition, and will aim
primarily to exploit the resources of the
lttle-known Northland. 1t will be a
$4,000, 900 enterprise. representative of
the marvellous development of the Pacific
Northwett in the past few years.
The United States bought Alaska in
1857, for $1,000, 900 the purchase being
made principally for the sake of doing
good turn to Russia, which had been
faithful to the United States during the
civil war. Since that time, the govern
ment's revenues from Alaska have been
more than $10,000,000 and the federal
government is 81, 100000 ahead in the
Alaska account, according to figures sup
piled 10y Secretary Taft.
Alaska has produced more than $780,
600, 900 worth of gold, and the fur out
put since 1870 has been $50, 34S, 762.
There are millions of acres of lands avail
able for settlement, and farming will
be the principal industry as soon as bet
ter transportation facilities are secured.
1t has been demonstrated that all sorts
of vegetables and the harder grains will
grow in the Northland,' while the in
land valleys are excellently adapted to
stock raising.
The Alaska Yukon-Pacific Exposition
will bring together in trade the shores
of the Pacific. Nine hundred million
people-more than half the population
of the globe-live in the Orient. Yet
the trade between the Orient and the
United States is not large, and that with
the Tropical Orient is not increasing.
Through the medium of exhibits, the
Alaska Yukon-Pacitic Exposition Will
teach buyer and seller what each needs.
The exposition of 1909 has been ex-
cellently started by the subscription by
Seattle citizens of $3.50, 900 worth of stock
in the enterprise. This subscription was
made in one day, and amounted to more
than SO, for every man, woman and
child in the city, No city ever before
raised SO large an amount for any pur-
pose in so short time.
The state of Washington will appro-
pirate 81 100000 for the fair, and the
federal government will be asked to par
ticipate with the same amount State
participation will be on a large scale,
and the displays made by the western
commonwealth will be especially elabo-
rate and interesting. Manufacturers
from every part of America and from
abroad will show their wares. Partici-
patton by foreign countries will be con-
fined to those which border on the Pa
cific ocean or have dependencies there.
1t is assured that the representation
which these nations will make will excel
the showing made at all earlier worlds
fairs.
Seattle, the New York of the Pacific
Coast, is located on the shore of Puget
Sound. The greatest ships of the world
ride at ancher. beside her miles of
wharves. Skyscrapers crowd one an
other on her business thoroughfares.
The city ID growing 80 fast that census
takers fail to keep pace. The population
now exceeds 100000 having more than
doubled since the census of 1909.
The exposition site has been chosen,
and laid out by John C. Olmsted, the
famous landscape architect. 1t embraces
ESQ acres of the University of Washing
ton campus. and is picturesquely situated
on the shore of Lake Washington, within
the city limits, and distant 20 minutes
by street car from the business center.