The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-09-15
EXHIBIT RESOURCES
Of NORTHWEST
LAND PRODUCTS SHOW AT ST.
PAUL By SEVEN STATES
AND ALASKA.
Washington, Oregon. Idaho, Mon.
tana, North Dakota and Minnesota,
Together With Northern Territory
to Advertise Possibilities Of .sBest
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st. Paul, Sept. 11.-After the sea-
sons crops have been harvested when
the country faces q prosperous holt
day season and q promising New
Year. Gland products show" will be
held in st. Paul by seven Northwest
ern states and the territory of Alaska
to show geographically the resources
and products of the soil, mines, for
ests, lakes, rivers and factories to the
people of the Middle West.
These are the states which will
participate with official exhibits:
Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Mon
tana, North Dakota, South Dakota
and Minnesota.
Gov. Walter E. Clark, of Alaska, is
now having an exhibit gathered by
Mr.. Falcon Joslin, of Fairbanks,
which will be an important part of
the show in St. Paul.
Purely Advertising
Unique in its organization, the
enterprise has no sentiment in it
whatever. 1t is purely an advertis-
ing proposition for the states inter-
ested, intended to reflect on It's 20,-
900 square feet of exhibit space, the
possibilities existing in the 1868,
l244 square miles Of territory en-
braced in the states of the Northwest
ern Development .Legue-'the best
section on the map of the world for
a home"
Other shows may have been held
to commemorate some important
event, been founded on sentiment or
history, but a land show such IS will
be given in st. Paul commentaries
no event, victory or discovery. 1t is
hoped by its officers and directors that
it will mark in formal way the OPP
ening of new era of pioneering in
the Northwestern states.
For These States Alone
The '.Northewestern Land Prod
ucts Show as the enterprise is off,
cially known, is given by the North
western states for the benefit of
these states alone. No others are
admitted and Canada is barred.
Every one of the states will have
an official exhibit covering at least
500 square feet of floor space in the
Municipal auditorium of st. Paul.
where the show is to be held.
Lewis Penwell, of Helena, veal
thy land and live stock owner, il
president of the development league
and also of the land show. Will A.
Campbell, formerly Of the Omaha
Commercial Club, is permanent sec
rotary of the league and general
manager of the show.
Mr.. Penwell describes the enter.
prise as "a panorama of life in the
states represented. reproducing in a
small space almost everything in the
Northwestern states, but the noun
tain peaks, waterfalls and mighty
rivers themselves, and showing these
In moving pictures and on canvas. :
| Speaking of the general results OF
the show, Mr.. Penwell says: mot
onlp does a land show demonstrate
resources of given section to the
prospective settler who will work the
land, but 1t interests the man with
|capital for industrial enterprises"
! Prominent Men Named
Governors of the states to be rep
sented have named men prominent
in development work to look after
exhibits, and these will be installed
with the authority of the state Itself
behind them. In Washington, Rufus
In. Wilson, OF Seattle; H. c. Samp-
son, OF Spokane, and DIR. Dennis w.
King, of Wenatchee, will collect and
install the exhibit.
| C.. G. Chapman, secretary OF the
Oregon Development League, and
William Hanley, of Burns, will be IN
charge Of the Oregon exhibit.
Idaho has an immigration COM
4 missioner, S. ]. Rich, of Boise, who Is
collecting fine exhibit. He will be
assisted by former Gov. ]. H. Brady,
REILLY Atkinson, of Boise; William
i Morgan, of Moscow, and Senator G.
In. Potts, OF Occur d'Alene.
/ Gov. Norris has named L. New
Imam, Of Great Falls; ]. H. Hall. COM
missioner of agriculture, and Ralph
lW. Reynolds, Of Lewiston, to look al
tier the Montana exhibit.