Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-11-04

slow it is in nearly every outsiders
opinion. e. TX
The building need not be- large but
in a place where 1t will be seen and
where people pass, not where they
have to go out Of their way to reach.
1t can be erected by subscription
among business men or by the Com
mercial club--theyg always have NOM
ey. Some Of the business men who
are In the lumber and hardware bus
mess can give some OF the material
needed. Comparing other places and
the present street exhibit I am Of the
opinion that the building should be
80 feet long and, ten wide Appear
ance and manner of display is the
most vital part Of the whole thing.
The exhibit should not be just the
products themselves. . Each exhibit.
or article, should have card attach
ed stating the name Of the producer,
size of his farm, distance from town,
and Bismarck, and the valuation per
acre. BY looking at the card, then
the article exhibited the Investigator
can see all he wishes to know saving
much time and interrogating. If he
Is then favorably impressed you Will
hear from him and soon too.
If this system of tabbing exhibits
is followed every farmer in the coun-
ty will make it point to see that
his best reaches the Commercial club
to be entered as an exhibit and you
will have every farmer wide awake
to the subject and ready to compete
with his neighbors causing good ma
tured rivalry and every time one of
them comes to town he will be seen
admiring the year round county fair
and it's latest arrival in the exhibited
contents.
The newspapers can help vastly in
keeping track of new exhibits and re-
marking on tneir quality, etc., giving
exhibit and exhibitor honorable men,
ton. Prizes, by those in charge, for
the year could be given exhibitors for
the several subjects exhibited. Every
one in the county should get into the
movement and then there would be
results such as the hard workers for
the upbuilding of this county are
looking forward to.
Most advertising of towns and
counties is through pamphlets, books
and folders. Usually hundreds of
dollars worth of this printed matter
falls into the hands of people who
care; or know nothing about farming.
See the money needlessly lost to the
advertisers this way.
This sort Of advertising is not to be
abandoned either but compare the
printed matter cost of advertising
with this exhibit idea and think
which is more convincing, cheaper
and more successfully reaching those
you wish to reach. q.
Hundredssof places throughout the
land have-hot aired-their wonder
full productive abilities until men now
say, IT wonder how much of this is
true, It looks good on paper" See
ing is believing, so let the people see
that beyond these hills is land that is
as good as that seen from the car
windows east of here.
In the exhibit can be given the city
advantages, government business
Eaouses, schools, etc., enumerated, the
commercial club notices, business
house advertisements. list Of hotels
and many things which would bring
an income to help pay the expense of
this exhibit habits lighting at night.
its other costs which may from time
to time present itself and the expense
LOT erection. I
~ The changing of; exhibits as they ar
rive or deteriorate could be left to a
committee of those in charge but one
*personJshould be the receiver Of them
and one place designated as the re-
ceiving point to eliminate uncertainty
among those sending or bringing ex-
hibits. $:44a - =. 2
have mentioned the Commercial
club throughout this article so often
because nearly always those bodies
elsewhere seem to have charge of dis
plays of this nature and it is along
the very lines which they follow and
hope some of my suggestions may be
of use to that body in Bismarck and
If used hope they will be as success
full toward the end in view as I have
seen them in other sections of the
country which I have had the pleas
ure of visiting.
Respectfully,
-DeForrest Bodies.