Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-09
BIG PLANS FOR LOCAL SHOW
Two Outside Shows to Help Land
Products Exhibit.
OTHER STATES ARE PREPARING
shows at Chicago and PittsburE BE
fore One In Omaha win increase
Amount OF Display and En-
thuaiasm for Local Affair.

Preparatory 20 the big Western Land |
Products exhibit to be held IN Omaha
January IS 20 y, several % the states sur
rounding Nebraska are going TO put ex-
hibits In the similar shows 20 be held at
Ptttsburg, Pa, and Chicago. The Pitts
burg dates are October II to ~ and the
Chicago dates are November II TO December
4 Prospects are good that both shows
will be 30 large and successful as 20 kindle
q spirit OF enthusiasm that will bring to
omaha's exhibit a GROWING glory.
For some time past the Colorado state
Board Of Agriculture, backed by Governor
Shafroth and all the hustling CONNER
cial bodies of that commonwealth
have been hard at work getting
up exhibits to be placed at the three shows
The Colorado board will have an exhibit OF
it's own and in addition every county IN
that state will be in evidence with some
sort OF display Of its products.
A spirit Of emulation has been aroused
in the Centennial state that is spreading
into Kansas and Wyoming. In both OF
these states men are already skirmishing
for exhibits OF every kind from one corner
to another, and they are sending in reports
indicating that when their stuff Is as
sembled at central points they will have
something to interest and astonish the east
and possibly a good many people in the
west, too.
Inspiration for the work being done in
the states mentioned is furnished by the
offer OF the Union Pacific railroad to pro
vide the proper space at the Pittsburg and
Chicago shows, and to carry the exhibits
TO and from these points. This railroad
has also had organizers and lecturers in
the field working up interest with most
| encouraging measure of success
Nebraska seems LaREard.
Up to this time Nebraska seems to be
the one laggsrd among the states 20 be
directly benefited by these land shows
which will attract the attention OF investors
and possibly settlers TO a greater degree
than any movement Of the kind in years.
While Colorado has already arranged for a
special day at Pittsburg and Kansas and
| Wyoming have taken positive steps TO get
the recognition that is their due, II has
been found a difficult task 10 get anybody
/ walked up in this state to the possibilities
offered.
Governor shafforth and the state Off
| GERS and the Colorado state Board OF Agri-
culture have agreed to be In Pittsburg on
/ the day 10 be devoted TO their state, and
] this fact will be featured strongly by the
management.
! Word has come from a man in the field
in Wyoming that he will have a most
creditable exhibit at the three shows from
at state. In Kansas, too, ana In other
states with possibly much less 70 gair
than Nebraska, q deep interest has beer
aroused.
Fred A. Shank. special representative Of
the Pittsburg Gazette. Times and the Pitts
burg Chronicle-Telegraph, has Deen working
for some time in the west. 70 stir this in.
terest for the Pennsylvania land show, and
he has had the assistance Of special ex
perts from the Union Pacific OF course
all this will mean that the Omaha SHOW
in January will set the ultimate benefit
George McDOnOush Talks.
George L. McDonOugh of Omaha, VIII
has been attending the National Irrigat Of
congress and exposition at Pueblo has jus
returned and reports that he found lttl
trouble in enlisting the interest OF the Colo
RADIO people. They are alert to the op
portuntty presented safd Mr.. McDonough
land Nebraska people should wake up an
get busy. The Union Pacific has sent It
experts into the field, and they are gettin
results. but the railroad cannot do II al
Surely there should be public spiri
enough in this immensely rich agriculture
state TO see to 1t that we shall be in tn
spotlight TO some extent, at least, at thes
great exhibits of the land products of tn
west.
"our people should realize that NebTask
is q mighty. large factor In the puliin
power of agriculture in this country. on
OF the very greatest, and should be prom
to act accordingly. Here is a combinatio
of three great opportunities, with Omaha &
the apex, so TO speak, being the show {
latest date, and II our farmers and bus
ness men and newspapers will all pull t
gether we can give to the Interested poop
OF other sections a material and most in
, teresting exhibition OF what we are doing.