The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-04-02
EXPOSITION NEWS.

A daily newspaper, eight pages in
size, to contain all the latest tele-
graph news of the world as well as
local happenings and the latest adj
vices from Alaska concerning mining
operations and new gold strikes, will
be published on the grounds of the
Alaska Yukon Paficic exposition at
Seattle this summer. The first is
sue will be published June /, the
date the exposition will open its
gates to the world and will continue
to come out daily until October j 9Th,
when the lights will be turned out
for the last time at this great ex-
hibition of the Pacific. ss H
The publication will be known as
the Exposition Daily Gold Digger
and will be the fair edition OF the
Nome (Alaska) Gold Digger. s. H.
Stevens, one of the best known
newspaper men in Alaska and pro-
prietor of the Nome paper, will per-
sonally attend to the management of
the exposition daily and has gone to
big expense to provide modern
newspaper plant to get out this pub
lication as well as to show visitors
to the fair just how a daily paper is
conducted.
Manager Stevens has also arranged
for daily Geographic service from
the leading cities of Alaska and the
news of the Northland will be
brought to the attention of the
visitors to the fair by the means of
this paper. 1t is hoped to promote
further interest in Alaska through
the medium of the Gold Digger and
thus advertise the great resources
of the district. All the latest ma
chinery used in newspapers is now
being installed on the exposition
grounds and the building has SO been
constructed as to leave passage ways
through which visitors may pass and
inspect every department of the pa
per while the plant is in actual oper-
alton.
A feature will be register list of
all visitors to the Gold Digger. The
names will be published daily in
order that persons may have some
means of locating friends visiting the
exposition during the same period
they are here.
Seven railroad routes, all of them
passing through sections of the con-
tinent full of scenic and historic in
terest, are at the selection of those
who visit the Alaska-Yukon-P Pacific
exposition. The same rates are in
force on all these lines, together with
agreements by which one may go
over one line and back over another,
still getting the advantage of the low
rates.
Taking the roads in their geo.
graphical order from north to south,
the Canadian Pacific is considered
first. 1t is scenic route of rare
beauty from the time one leaves
Halifax, Nova Scotia, or intermediate
points, until Seattle is reached. 1t
traverses the beautiful lake regions
of Canada, skirts the PERCEPTIONS
shore of Lake Superior, crosses the
great plains of Western Canada, and
winds for hours through the Rocky
mountains and the Cascades until 1t
finally reaches the beautiful Puget
Sound country. No route in America
surpasses it in scenic attractions,
views of lake and river, mountain
and valley, forest and plain. A line
to st. Paul It's United States connec-
ton.
The Great Northern is also full of
scenic interest. From st. Paul to
Seattle, an ever changing scene is
presented to the observer, growing
more beautiful and interesting as the
mountain regions are approached.
Skirting rapid rivers and climbing
through mountain passes, the road
saves its most beautiful scenery until
the end, when 1t energies upon Puget
sound at Everett, Washington, and
continues for 80 miles along the
beach to Seattle, the beautiful ex-
panse of the sound with the pin
nacled Olympics in the distance, be-