The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-10-18
Seven STATES TO
HOLD BIG show
Minneapolis to Have Northwest.
ern Products Exposition.
Oates NOVEMBER p TO q

DATES NOVEMBER y TO "a
Governors end Business Men Of Min.
nesota, the Dakotas, Montana, Idaho.
Washington and Oregon Join In
Bringing Displays from Seven States
To bring under one roof q 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 100000 square miles of ter.
ritory, is the big task which the gov
srnors Of these seven states and an
organization Of Western business mer
have attempted. -~ i
The idea Is to collect the best sam
Dles from seven state and some sixty
Or seventy county fairs and, bringing
them together, hold a great fair of the
AMERICAN Northwest. The govern
ers 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 well
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 a new exposition building in
Minneapolis after tho seasons bumper
crop has been harvested. The bust
less men of Minneapolis have erected
this building at a cost of SIS, 900 and
invited the governors of the sever
states to make it the home of theil
Northwestern Products Exposition. II
will be installed the first week of No.
vember and open to the public from
Nov. IL to %.
The great transportation companies
Interested in the development of the
AMERICAN Northwest are assisting
In the work of collecting and installing
S0lo CApOoll1OA I'M A&SO JuoI al
1ounced that special railroad rates
will be granted.
Each state will have = special day
ct the Northwestern Products Exposi.
ton aud 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 ia illustrate
their addresses.
But the exhibits themselves. will
constitute the best guide to the Amer
lean Northwest which 'has ever been
created. The exposition will be a min.
failure 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 VIII all oc.
oupy about the same amount of space
and have booths Ut q general sire, vari.
Gus communities Of these states have
secured space in the exposition for in.
Aiviaual exhibits. Besides the states
there will be some seventy special
booths and exhibits suppleusenting the
state exhibits.
4 visit to the exposition is ex.
pec.ed to give one almost az much
knowledge as an extended "trip through
the seven states. The whole idea is
A. r1{y@ itho ,;cStOps S>P1-ooI4n ohn.,x
thu AMERICAN Northwest; to create
q knowledge Of tho possibilities, op-
pDrtunities and fasclnAtions to he
foHnd in this great territory where
. only 100000 people live on 1885,.
'ooAs000 acres of land.
Because this exposition is given by
TIE states themselves, and is not in
any way a private enterprise, the in
formation 1t is expected to give will
;he authentic. The men connected with
the exhibits have been appointed by
the governors and represent the high
EFT class of citizenship In the North
wsst. 1t will be 4 show OF the whole
1soule,of the e represented, just as
. state fair IL a show by the people OF
one state.
minnesota Most important.
Thu state of Minnesota will have
the largest exhibit in the exposition
and the Minnesota display will be
Aorseomplete than the exh1bits Of the
Gopher state at any state fair because
the Northwestern Products Exposition
- held late enough to enable those IN
charge ct securing the display to show
grains and fruits not ripe when the
stale fair Is held. The Minnesota ex.
hibt ct this exposition will give q
saae. orderly and representative show.
Ing Of Whist the state IL giving to ths
Wos1aLf
Tells where to Get hornsa
Whist IL trne Of the Minnesota, ex-
hibit viii be trus Of the others. They
will ten visitors what the lands Of the /
win do and the msn in
viii inforn people or give them
showing how and where TO
DecuFeeas heme IN the American North.
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