Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-03-21

Inc second dUuuI 1AuusIAAoA LA
position will be held in the Exposition
Building at Bismarck October Ito Is,
1912, and promise to so far eclipse
in magnif1cence anL splendor the first
annual exposition, that it will seem
like an entirely dihe trent occasion.
The experien e which the officials,
and the Bismarck business men, who
were vitality In the success of the pro.
ject secured in the management OF
the 1911 Industrial Exposition will
serve them in good stead this year.
The Men Behind The Guns
The North Dakota department OF
agriculture and labor Of which Com.
missioner w. G. Gilbreath is the head
has the exposition project under its
direct supervision, while the Bismarck
commercial club will have full charge
of the street attractions, and will
back tie exposition financially. The
commercial clubs efforts will be per-
sonally directed this year by Presi'
dent Fred l.. Conklin, and nothing
will be left undone that will in any
way ASSURE greater success of the
venture. 80 far as this organization
is concerned.
Club Financially interested.
The Bismarck commercial club IL
now engaged in raising approximately
$4,000 to be used for exposition pur'
poses, and Is making rapid Roadway
toward securing the desired amount
over half that sum having already
been pledged. No difficulty will be
experienced in raising the remainder
of the required amount.
Splendid Outside Attractions Assured
In the matter of securing, outside
attractions. 1t wilt be remembered
that the 1911 exposition was planned
too late in the season to bring the
best concessions here. as the show;
menhad already billed their fall dates
and bad no open time to devote to
Bismarck. This year the commercial
club is commencing its campaign to
secure concessions as early as pos
sible, and there will be many splendid
attractions and novel forms Of amuse
ment for the entertainment of the
large crowds THAT will visit the Elk
position City during fair time.
= Proposed Attractions
In addition to the shows and other
street attractions which the CONNER
cial club Will endeaVOr to secure Tor
the Exposition, plans are now on loot
for holding kennel show, a poultry
show, and an automobile show. Some
of tie members of the club are also
In favor Of bringing the Indians from
the Fort Berthoad and the standing
Rock reservations to Bismarck during
exposition time, and putting ON q
wild west feature, Indian village, etc.
These and many other plans are now
under discussion by the members ana
officials Of the club, and new ideas
are coming up each day which Will
be threshed out in due season.
More Settlers viii b Secured
If the plans OF Commissioner GIL
breath are carried out the 1917 IN
dustrial Exposition will assure such
magnificent proportions that North
Dakota will become known far and
wide for the great harvest fair where
at she will display to the world the
best products of her mines and fields,
and fertile plains. More thrifty set
tiers will be attracted to the valley
in the east, the broad prairies OF the
middle counties, and to the sunny
Missouri Slope. T.
Conditions Very Favorable
The soil and weather conditions
this year were never more favorable
for a bumper crop, and It Is expected
that the display of products which
win be collected from every nook
and corner of the commonwealth will
have been unsurpassed by any previ-
GUS exhibits arranged by the depart
meat Of agriculture and labor.
Campaign will Start Early
Commissioner Gilbreath has written
to every county commissioner In
North Dakota, as well as to about
twenty prominent men in each county,
and has taken up the matter of com-
ty exhibits with them He has re-
quested the men to whom he has writ
ten. all Of whom are deeply interested
in the work of displaying the states
resources, to go before their boards
of county commissioners and urge
them to ask a one and one quarter
mill tax under the provisions Of Sec
ton 24O2, r. c., 1905. that the COM
missoners might, in the event they
would secure the necessary number
Of subscribers, make an appropriation
for an exhibit from their counties.
Altogether Commissioner Gilbreath
has written nearly one thousand let
ters in regard to this matter. In ad-
dftion, either he or some Of his rep
reoentatives will call upon each coun-
ty board personally and state the
necessity for that county being rep
fecented at the 1919 Industrial Expod-
ton at Bismarck. The campaign,
starting this early, will be productive
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