The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-10-25
BOOSTING FOR
PELICAN CITY
COLONEL TRAVIS WANTS FARGO
ANS TO FAVOR NEW ORLEANS
FOR THE LOCATION or THE
PANAMA CANAL EXPOSITION IN
19f5-THE LOGICAL POINT.

Col ], L. S. Travis of Austin, Tex
is in the city promoting the Worlds
Panama exposition of New Orleans
lColonel Travis is veteran newspa-
per man and ready speaker. He said:
4 I am asking your commercial club
Ito pass resolutions favoring New Or
leans as the logical point for holding
the exposition, celebrating the opening
jof the Panama canal in 1915 ] have
passed up the Mississippi valley from
the crescent city to North Dakota, and
am glad to see that the people Of the
entire valley are alive to their own
Interests i'm the preference they show
Tor New Orleans. CT course, no one
doubts that New Orleans Is the logical
point as being the most accessible to
! the largest number Of people. There
are 65,000,O00 people in the United
States who can reach New Orleans in
one day and a half's travel New
/ Orleans, naturally, is the central point
and should be the distributing mar
ket for the great Mississippi valley
from the Canadian border to the gulf.
There is no state in the northern part
Of the valley that should be more di-
rectly interested in this proposition
than North Dakota. Every stream
creek and rivulet trending south
through North. and South Dakota is
buttressed by banks of almost solid coal
This coal is practically undeveloped
and North Dakota. holding on her
creeks and river banks a wealth of
coal, sufficient to supply the world
with feul, is without an outlet except
west and east, where the demand is
already supplied by the native pro-
duct, unless carried to such distance
that the cost of transportation would
pc prohibitory. The exposition at
New Orleans will attract the home
seeker and the capitalist to the won
derful resources and undeveloped
wealth that is only waiting an outlet
and a ready market to make North Da-
kota the greatest coal state in the
union. From this exposition will GER
tainly come the completion of a deep
waterway from the Canadian border to
the Gulf. This will not only furnish
the states Of the upper valley with
cheaper transportation, but with a
ready market for products that have
heretofore emained untouched.
THE export and import trade. with
the gulf coast cities, amount to nearly
5OO,O00,000 a year. OF which amount
over 70 per cent passes through New
Orleans. It is easy to see how much
this would be worth to the north end
of the valley, when cheap transporta-
ton and an open market in the south is
secured.
Another reason for holding this ex-
position at the mouth of the MISSISSIPPI
pi Is that New Orleans is better pre-
pared to entertain the crowds that
would go to such a celebration than
any other city in the United States. |
In very recent years she has spent |
100000 for levees, and has full con-
troll of the world. The city also owns |
It's belt railroad, and ne other city in |
The United States has such facilities |
The fact that England, Spain and |
France, every republic in Central and |
South America, and thirty four states |
If the union are directly interested in /
New Orleans as the logical point to
celebrate the greatest achievement Of
he human race since America was dis
covered should be a SUFFICIENT argu-
nent to determine the location. Con- l
sress will determine in December or
'arly in January upon the location
II the exposition, and I hope my next
'isit to your beautiful little city will
,e to ascertain how much you pro-
'ose to appropriate for your exhibits"