The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-06
EXHIBITS PLANNED INCLUDE FIN
EST FRUIT FROM ALL PARTS
OF THE WORLD.
Two Months in Which to CompIetc
Buildings, and More Than 80
Per Cent of Work Done.


culture exhibits will be a feature of
the Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition
at Seattle this summer and magnifi-
cent displays are being prepared for
exhibition PURPOSES by every county
of the larger counties have erected
their own buildings at the fair, and
the smaller counties have space in the
agriculture building, a handsome struc-
ture facing the Cascades and Geyser
Basin. and one of the exhibit palaces
forming the central picture of the fair
In this building, as well as in the
county buildings will be a complete
display of the fruits, vegetables and
grains of eastern and western Wash
ington. Butter, eggs, poultry and pro-
duce generally will also occupy space
in this building and the dairy building
on the grounds will constitute the
"live exhibit for there the state of
Washington will have a model dairy In
operation and open for the inspection
of visitors. In the agriculture building
will also be a display of all the lat
est dairy and farm machinery.
The displays of fruit from Oregon.
Washington and California will be
the greatest ever assembled for an in
ternational exposition. In the Cali
fornia building will be hundreds Of
jars of fruit especially prepared for
the exposition as well as shipments Of
fresh fruits received daily from the
south. Oregon has a cold storage
plant in it's building at the exposi-
ton and already Several carloads Of
choice Oregon apples are on hand fo-
exhibition purposes. On Oregon day
the exposition cherries will be given
away to the visitors as well as the big
red apples.
Eastern Washington will send car
loads of choice apples such as were ex~
hibited at the National Apple show at
Spokane in December, 1898, and grains
and grasses will be used extensively
I'm the decoration work on the interior
of the Spokane county building, an or
nate structure just completed.
In fact horticulture will be featured
by the counties of Washington and the
states participating at the exposition
and Alaska will display quantities of
fruits and vegetables raised beyond
the Arctic Circle. The grains and
grasses of Alaska will be one of the
features of the Alaska building at the
fair and the United States govern
ment proposes that the visitors to
Seattle shall learn something about
the agriculture possibilities of the
northland
Ir. the Canadian building at the ex-
position horticulture products will also
be featured and the Grand Trunk rail
road will make q display of the fruits
and vegetables as well as the grains
and grasses of that section of the
Dominion of Canada. through which
the line passes, British Columbia, ag-
riculture features will be given much
promine nee in the Grand Trunk build
ing.
IF all the horticulture products to
be displa we'd at the Seattle exposition
were gathered together for one great
exhibit it would require more than ten
acres Of exhibit space and this big
fruit show will include almost every
variety. with the exception of the trop-
zeal fruits. The Strawberries and mel
ons of Oregon and Washington as well
as the choice apples of both states will
he on exhibition by the thousands.
Poultry will be featured at the ex-
position and the display to be made
according to assurances at this time.
will constitute one of the largest pOul-
FRY shows ever seen in the northwest
Tn Sonoma CT unity, California, are a
large number of the largest chicken
ranches in the world and from Petalu-
ma. the center of this industry, viii
come a fine exhibit of high grade
poultry.
The exposition itself is now so near
complete that many of the exhibits
for both the agriculture and manufac-
lures buildings are being received In
Seattle and the fair will he ready to
the smallest detail when the gates
open juno 1.
Great progress has marked the build
ing of this exhibition from the very
start. With two months still remain
ing i'm which to add the finishing
touches the exposition as whole Is
now more than so per cent complete
and could be opened, if necessary, one
month earlier The fair is being hello
on the campus OF the University o.
Washington and seven buildings, of
permanent nature, will revert to the
University at the close of the exposi-
ton. These structures, representing
the heavier construction work of the