The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1912-07-04
American Land and
Irrigation Exposi
tion:...
Incorporatedl
Qncorporated)

New York, June 25, 1912
R. J. Dobell, Secretary
The Sedgwick County Fair Association
Julesburg, Colo
Dear Sir:
The expenditure Of $3.50, 900 was nee:
essary to cover rental, publicity and ad-
vertising expenses, decorations, music
guards and attendants, to make our
New York Exposition (populary called
the New York Land Show a success
last year, - to make New York and the
Atlantic Seaboard sit up and take no.
tice. Such an outlay is necessary if
any Show in this second largest city
of the world is to prove popular and
attract large and interested attend
ance from the city and the neighboring
states.
New Workers and people for the
Atlantic Seaboard have been Colonizing
and supplying capital for the develop
ment of the United States and other
sections of the two Americas, ever since
the days of Hendrix Hudson.
The Atlantic Seaboard has given the
country its best classes of colonizers
and EVER WILL in the future. New
Workers and men of the Atlantic Sea-
board built Florida's hotels; founded
the first commercial orange groves of
California; started Colorado's S first irr-
igation agriculture colony; invested in
the nation's most important land and
irrigation enterprises; and, chiefly SUBJ
scribed to the building of the country's
transportation lines.
! Four hundred thousand farmers
(among its million immigrants) annua-
lily enter the port of New York, which
furnish labor and farmers for the en-
tire ration. New York is the center of
American promotion and publicity, and
its newspapers reach eight million
readers!
| If any state or section of America
desires publicity and promotion, labor
ers. farmers, or money for develop.
ment purposes, NewYork, THE
METROPOLIS of America = IS THE
PLACE in which to advertise.
furthermore New York is bound, be-
cause of the foregoing, to become the
great American land market. Land
has not been generally advertised or ex-
plotted in this center Of money and
men. This ineXplainable neglect must
be rectified. The New York Land
! Show points the way!
! Chambers of commerce, immigration
societies and railroads will no longer be
content to issue little circulars or book
lets to make the resources of their CO.
unties, cities rnd states known ca,
They must make ocular demons trations
where men and money are! They must
show in New York that they have the
goods.
Seekers for land or employment will
visit the New York Land Show from
Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, to learn
the lesson it teaches. Great Britain
has become the foremost stock growing
nation because fairs and agricultural
shows have been frequent and great
teachers there. Farmers Will Visit
the New York Land Show receive its
inspirations, correct their mistakes,
teach their successes, and learn of the
mistakes and successes of other grow
ers il different sections of the country
The Land Show Stirs The Farmer S
Ambition!
There has never been time in the
history of America when your section
of the country could SO advantageouslv
easily and economically make an ocu.
lar demonstration of its soil products,
newer and richer opportunities, as
it can this fall at this Exposition! If