The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-12-05
SOUTH DAKOTA'S
EXHIBIT PRAISED
GENERALLY REFERRED TO AS
MOST ATTRACTIVE DISPLAY
AT CHICAGO LAND SHOW

Chicago, Ill.-ln the great Coli
avenue, the fourth annual United
States Land Show is being held under
the auspices and direct management
of the Chicago Tribune. There are Il
couple of hundred exhibitors includ-
ing parts of the best known states in
the South and West and Middle West.
But prominently in Il class by itself
stands South Dakota. This can be
said impartially and it is heard on
every side. The Sunshine State is dis
tinctively not only in its highly art
istic decorative features but i'm the
character of its exhibits. Red and
gold are the dominant colors that
Eugene Stout of Sioux Falls chose
when he set out to make the South
Dakota exhibit one that visitors
would remember and he certainly
succeeded. Corn is the dominant pro
duct that immigration Commissioner
John ID. DeetS chose when he wished
to put his best foot forward before
the thousands of people eagerly seek
ing knowledge and information of
the products of the west. and one
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from the admiring throngs to realize
that his Judgment was good. Verify
Corn is King" in South Dakota and
nowhere in the Coliseum is seer any
thing like the showing of yellow and
red grains that are found in Section
G..
IN greatly admired corn panels
ana the piles of ears are from Beres-
ford and the former were construct
ed by Mr.. k%earney of Mitchell, who
deity wove from red and yellow cobs
a wren and a blue jay that make a
striking bit of display.
Minnehaha county is splendidly re-
presented in the finest garden truck
OF mammoth proportions, all manner
of grains in bottles and wheat sheafs
of every variety.
Rapid City and Pennington county
have the fruit and vegetables, in
Guiding "A 205 pound squash that
tops anything of its kind i'm the show
while Hot Springs and Buffalo Gap
como in for a fine vegetable exhibit.
Aberdeen has as fine potatoes as
are grown anywhere, not large but
of the highest grade, and other soc
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their best productions.
The Black Hills has one of the
finest mineral exhibits even sent out
from that section. 1T was gotten to-
Sctlcr by the Deadwood Business
club and is representative of all the
principal mines and prospects in the
Hllls, every variety of mineral and
rare metals being shown. Two cases
iull OF gold and silver nuggets, gold
specimens that run as high as $780,
900 per ton, and all the highest grade
rock to be found i'm the Hills, hold the
attention OF througs. AT the end of
the exhibit, in full view Of the add
vancing crowds, hangs the handsome
Illuminated colored panorama of
Deadwood. showing the rugged pine
clad hills whose alluring canyons and
cool breezcs, with the absence oil mo-
squitoes and hot nights, attract the
tourists.
The South Dakota exhibit is in
charge of immigration Commissioner
Deets and assisting him are Eugene
Slough of Sioux Falls for the agri-
cultural sections, and II. w. Troth,
secretary of the Dcadwood Business
club, with Mrs. Helen III. IIowland of
Chicago. one of the abicst demon
strators in this section.
Governor II. S. Wesley paid the cx-
hlbit ii short visit on Thanksgiving
day and was highly pleased with the
showing. He LETT that night for
Richmond, Va, to attend a confer
cnce of governors.