Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-03-23


velopment association will thke
travelling land products exhibit" in
to the eastern states early this fall,
visit some $50 towns and cities, be
out over 80 days, and return to ON
aha for the big western land show
to be held there the last of October
She plan is to fit up an entire train |
of steel exhibit cars containing the
products of the states interested and
carrying tons Of information, certi-
fed by the state department; a NOV
ing picture show, hundreds of bea-
utiful tranparencies and pictures. Two
attendants will go with each car to
represent their respective states, and
general staff of six to ten people to
represent the Western Development
association, under the direction of
which the big educational trip ami
advertising campaign is to be organ
lied and executed.
California, Oregon, Washington,
Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Montana, Wyo-
ming, Colorado and Nebraska are the
states which are to be given the pri-
vilege of each furnishing an exhibit
car for this magnificent train. West
ern railroads will all be asked to
cooperate and assist in making the
trip over 5000 miles of eastern roads
possible.
This plan and some of its details
resulted from the meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee meeting of the
Western development association,
which has been meeting at the Com
mercial club here The meeting was
presided over by Ex-Governor aJmes
H. Brady of Idaho who is president
of the organization and was attend
ed by vice presidents of the organi-
cation from Idaho, Oregon, Washing
ton. Utah and Nebraska. other stat
; es in the association which could not
be represented had wired Governor
Brady their willingness to cooper
ate in any plan the committee might
formulate, and the officers in the city
feel sure a 12-coach train will be
sent east in September, carrying the
exhibit cars of 10 states, the Pull
man headquarters car and a dining
car.
Representatives of the association
worked far into the night last night
and all day today on their work, tax
ing up the special train plan as the
best of a dozen submitted for theiI
consideration.
Following the adoption of the plan
Governor Brady said:
q am personally confident of the
success of this plan and of the re-
suits it will bring to the west. / an
much gratifed with the decision Of
the committee to go about this mat
ter in a great big way. 1t is in line
with the See America First move
ment. 1t will be an exceptionally ed
ucational movement. The east doe.
not know the western part of the
United States as one part of grca
country should know another. w ar.
rct working together and as th'
east must always contribute her peo
pie to develop new countries and new
sections in America, the east viii
send us her sons after a trip of thi
kind instead of sending them to ;
foreign country or into climates
where the ways of farming AMI thu
making of living are so much diff
ferent from what they are in thu
east"
y The part of the United States Il
be visited will be Iowa, Illinois, Wis
cousin, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania
and perhaps the Virginias and Mary
r land The trip will surely be routes
r into some of the great cities of tn
+ east. including the national capital
It 1t will skirt the Ohio river countr
e on its return and cross SOUTHERN II
n linois and Missouri, reaching so ia
as possible the sections which ar
= now contributing so largely to tn
western country, as well as the ia
, south and Canada.
To make arrangements for thi
trip another meeting of the executiv
/ committee of the Western Develop
ment association will be called with
i in 90 days in Portland, when all tn
presidents of the western railroad
may be present. These men desire
4 to attend the present meeting in Sal
4 Lake, but the time was short and he
4 to first permit the association to wor
4 out its plan, then join with IL in tn
1 working out of the gigantic enter
prise.
Should the first trip prove success
fu1 fho trim will he rnoda an ANNA