The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-05-17
AIRING CH|CA-
CO EXHIBIT
NATIONAL APPLE SHOW MAN.
AGEMENT IS LINING UP DIS.
TRICTS FOR SHOW IN SPOKANE
AND LATER IN EAST.

nouncement is made by the board
of trustees of the National Apple
Show, Inc, that the prize-winning
fruit of the third annual exposition
in Spokane, next November, and dis
trict and general displays from
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Mon
tana will be sent to Chicago for ex-
ploitation purposes in First Regi-
ment armory during the week of the
International Livestock exhibition.
The Chicago plan involves an ex-
penditure of $4,000, exclusive Of
the cost of the Spokane show, which
is estimated at $4,000. Officials
Of transcontinental railroads inter-
ested in the development of the
Northwestern states have guaranteed
large proportion of the fund for
the first named exhibition and the
various fruit districts in the four
states are depended upon for $10.-
900 by taking space for display pur-
poses at Chicago. No charge will
be made for entries or exhibition
space at the Spokane show, which
is open to the world.
The general exhibits will be trans
ported from Spokane to Chicago free
of expense to the growers and, in
addition, the management Of the Ma
tional Apple Show will move at least
six prize winning carloads, also the
winners in the ten-box, five-box and
special display contests, thus making
an exhibition of apples that will at
tract wide attention to the fruit dis
tricts in the Northwest, as we'll as
exploit their products. Each district
will have ono or more representa-
tives in charge to distribute litera-
ture and give out information.
Space for district exhibits at Chi
cago has been engaged by the Com
mercial club and Apple Growers I'M
ion, Hood River, Ore; Commercial
club, Wenatchee, Wash; North Gen.
trail Development league, CONNER
club and Fruit Growers union, Wal
la, Walla; Chamber of Commerce,
Ellensburg, Wash; Latah County
Fruit Growers union, Idaho; Cham
Der of Commerce, Missoula, Mont:
Commercial clubs of Stevens county.
Wash; Commercial club, Medford,
Ore; Commercial club and Fruit
| Growers union, North Yakima,
Wash; Commercial club, Lewiston,
Idaho; Sunnyside, Zillah and Spo-
kane Valley Fruit Growers associa-
lions and the Sutherlin Development
League, Oregon.
The decision of the trustees of the
show to eliminate orchard land COM
panies from making the Chicago
show a vehicle for private ajvertis-
ing, has met with general approval
and the companies are assisting the
various commercial organizations and
fruit growers associations by con-
tributing to the expense funds. They
realize that the movement will en-
courage emigration and investments
and thus is bound to be of great ben
eft to every line of trade in the
northwestern states.
Representative committees have
been appointed in several districts
to secure pledges of the fruit re-
quired to make the exhibits, also to
handle financial matters and see that
the fruit is properly assembled and
placed on exhibition in the best pos
sible condition in Spokane and Chi
cago. Commercial clubs have been
active in cooperating with the fruit
growers associations. Generally.
the rental charge for the district dis
plays at Chicago has been taken up
by the commercial clubs, the grow
ers pleiging sufficient fruit for the
exhibits.
Rem H. Rice, secretary and mana
ger of the show, is arranging for
tour of Montana and southern Idaho
to interest fruit growers there in the
Chicago show He has already visit
ed many of the principal apple dis
tricts in Washington, Oregon and
Idaho, where, he says, the prospects
were never better for enormous
yields of fruit Thousands of acres
of new orchards will come into bear
ing this season." he added, land,
Judging from the bloom-laden
branches, the young trees will give
satisfactory results.
when the plan of moving the
prize-winning exhibits to Chicago was
| first suggested, there was some doubt
as to it's feasibility, but the keen in
terest, the hearty cooperation and
financial support accorded by the
various districts quickly determined
the matter. Sufficient pledges have
been received to justify the trustees
announcing that the Chicago exposi-
! ton will be undertaken following
| the Spokane show, and we have every
reason to believe that practically
every district in the Northwest will
be adequately represented"