The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1912-10-18
STATESTO
HOLD BIG SHOW
Minneapolis to Have Northwest
ern Products Exposition.
DATES NOVEMBER Y TO q

nesota, the Dakotas, Montana, Idaho,
Washington and Oregon Join in
Bringing Displays from Seven States.
To bring under one roof a complete
display of the products of seven states
and the territory of Alaska and show
on its 10000 square feet of exhibit
space the best of everything which
has been produced during the season
Of 1912 in 1,063,000 square miles of ter
ntory, is the big task which the gov
ernors of these seven states and an
organization of Western business men
have attempted.
The idea is to collect the best sam
pies from seven state and some sixty
or seventy county fairs and, bringing
them together, hold great fair of the
AMERICAN Northwest. The govern
ors named commissions early in the
year and these men, representing al
most every county in the seven states,
have been busy all summer collecting
the prize winning grains, grasses,
fruits, vegetables and plants, as we'll
as securing displays Of the products of
the lakes, rivers, forests and mines.
Show Opens In November.
It is this display, which will be
placed in new exposition building in
Minneapolis after the seasons bumper
crop has been harvested. The busi-
ness men of Minneapolis have erected
this building at cost of $4,000 and
invited the governors of the seven
states to make it the home of their
Northwestern Products Exposition. 1t
Will be installed the first week of No.
vember and open to the public from
Nov. - to %.
The great transportation companies
interested in the development of the
AMERICAN Northwest are assisting
in the work of collecting and installing
this exposition and have just an
nounced that special railroad rates
will be granted.
Each state will have a special day
ut the Northwestern Products Exposi-
tion and on these days the governors
Of the states and some prominent men
will speak in the lecture halls of the
exposition about their states. They
will have thousands of feet of new
motion picture films and stereopticon
views by the hundred to illustrate
their addresses.
But the exhibits themselves will
constitute the best guide\to the Amer.
tcan Northwest which has ever been
created. The exposition will be min.
lature worlds fair-it will be to the
seven states what the worlds fairs
have been to the American continent.
Communities Join With States.
While the state exhibits will be al.
most uniform, in that they will all oc-
cupy about>the same amount of space
and have booths of general size, vari.
Gus communities of these states have
secured space in the exposition for in
dividual exhibits. Besides the states
there will be some seventy special
booths and exhibits supplementing the
state exhibits.
visit to the exposition is ex-
pected to give one almost as much
knowledge as an extended trip through
the seven states. The whole idea is
to give the visitors Information about
the AMERICAN Northwest; to create
knowledge of the possibilities, op-
portunities and destinations to be
found in this great territory where
now only 100000 people live on $685.
100000 acres of land.
Because this exposition is given by
the state themselves, and is not In
any way private enterprise, the in.
formation it is expected to give will
be authentic The men connected with
the exhibits have been appointed by
the governors and represent the high.
est class of citizenship in the North.
west. It will be show of the whole
people of the area represented, just as
a state fair is show by the people OF
enc state.
Minnesota Most Important.
The state of Minnesota will have
the largest exhibit in the exposition
and the Minnesota display will be
more complete than the exhibits of the
Gopher state at any state fair becaus>
the Northwestern Products Exposition
is held late enough to enable those in
charge of securing the display to show
grains and fruits not ripe when tho
state fair is held. The Minnesota ex
hibit at this exposition will give a
sane, orderly and representative show.
ing of what the state is giving to the
world.
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