Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-06-05
Special Train From Saint
Paul Goes to Pacific Coast
With Boosters
Bio Business Men Take Time
From Work TO Dispense
Good Work
Special to The Tribune

SAINT PAUL, June 5-As delegates
to the meeting OF the largest CONNER
cial club in the world large party of
business men LETT Saint Paul Saturday
night June y. on 900 mile trip to
the Pacific coast. The meeting of the
Northwest Development league at Sc
attic June 5 to 3, is the primary OBJ
ject OF this trip, although stops will be
made both ways at the important cities
along the line and the customers of
the jobbers and manufacturers will be
greeted.
This is the longest trade extension
trip ever taken by a body of business
men on this continent. Trips have been
taken by water which have extended to
the principal points of Europe. This
excursion of two weeks by the bust
ness men of Saint Paul, Minneapolis
and Duluth, extends two-thirds of the
way across the continent and back.
If similar excursion were run by
business men of New York City by the
time the party reached Saint Paul they
would have used only 1885 miles. Such
an eastern party could pass Chicago and
reach Saint Paul and return and then
have thousand miles to travel to equal
the trip of the Saint Paul men.
Last fall the business men of Saint
Paul went to Bismarck, N. D., for a
day, trip of 500 miles, to visit the
exhibition of crops of that state and
partake of a dinner given by the local
merchants, but nothing as extensive as
the present trip has ever been under
taken by the Saint Paul merchants, who
are widely known as energetic travel
ers.
The train of fourteen coaches will go
west over the Great Northern and re-
turne over the Northern Pacific. The
party will be three days in Seattle, a
day in Tacoma, one at the ocean side
and two days in Portland, attending the
rose festival there Stops from half an
hour to three hours will be made at the
larger cities enroute Large prepara-
tons have been made for the reception
of the northwestern boosters at each of
the stops.
The meeting in Seattle is the ami
versary of the organization of the
Northwest Development Deague form
ed at Helena, Mont, a year ago. Saint
Paul business took large part in the
trip to Helena and in the following ef-
forts to put the combination of the
commercial bodies of seven states of the
northwest on its feet to work to stop
the tide of emigration to Canada.
1t was under the auspices of the
same Northwest Development League
that ten governors of the west toured
the eastern states last fall in a special
train, until the big cars they use in J
the west got stuck in the Baltimore tun-
mel and the governors and their silk |
hats had to 60 to Washington and re-
turn on another train The east came |
to know the west better on account of |
that trip. She present trip of the men
of large affairs of the cities of Mime
sofa will cement the bond between all !
the states of the Northwest
The delegates at the meeting of the
league will consider means of increasing
the trade of this country with Alaska,
and it is barely possible that from the
meeting will come a plan for the de-
velopment of the resources of that
large territory.