The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-11-01

lllnnsap0ll; 70 Han Northwest,
eIn Products Exposition.
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DATES NOVEMBER Y. 70 q

Governors and 1uslnsss Men OF Min
nssota, tho Dal<otas, n ontana, Idaho,
Washington and Oregon Join Ia
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 it's 10000 square feet, Of exhibit
space the best OF everything which
has been produced during. the season
Of 1912 in LOGS. 900 square miles Of ter.
ritory, is the big task which the gov.
srnors of these seven states and an
organization of Western business men
have attempted. -:
The idea is to collect tho best sam
Pies from seven state and some sixty
or seventy county fairs and. bringing
them together, hold 1 great fail 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 Ill summer collecting
the prize winning grains, grasses,
fruits. vegetables and plants, a. well
~ securing displays Of the products ,ot
the lakes. rivers. forests and mines.
: Show Opens In November. .
1t is this display. which will be
placed in new exposition building In
Minneapolis after tho seasons bumper
crop has been harvested. - The bust.
ness men of Minneapolis have erected
this building at a cost Of $4,000 and
invited the governors of the seven
states to make it the homo Of their
Northwestern Products Exposition. 1t
will be installed tho 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
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.
ton and on these days he>goyernors
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
lean Northwest which has ever been
created. The exposition will be min.
tature 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 win all oc.
cupy about the same amount OF space
and have booths Of 4 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 experimenting the
state exhibits.
A visit to tho exposition IL ex.
pected to give: one almost AZ much
knowledge as an extended trip through
the seven states. The whole idea 10
% give the visitors information about
the AMERICAN Northwest: to create
. knowledge Of the possibilities, op-
portunities and Vaccinations to be
found in this great territory where
now only 7.o00.o0 people live on $685.
0O0, 900 acres Of land.
Because this exposition Is Owen by
The states themselves, and IL not in
any way a private enterprise, tho in
formation it IL expected to give will
be authentic. The men connected with
the exhibits have been appointed by
the governors and represent the high
ct class of citizenship in the North
west. It will be a show Of the whole
people Of the area represented, just as
= state fair is q show by, the people Of
one state. .
Minnesota Most important.
The state 6f Minnesota will have
the largest exhibit In tho exposition
and the Minnesota display wilt be
more complete than the exhibits Of the
Gopher state 1T any state fair because
the Northwest tern Products Exposition
IL held late enough to enable those in
charge Of securing the display to show
grains and fruits not ripe when the
state fair is held. The Minnesota; ex:
hibit at this exposition will give q
sane, orderly and representative show.
ing Of what the state Is giving to the
world.
Tells Where 20 Get Homes.
What is true Of the Minnesota ex,
hbit will be true Of tho others. They
will tell visitors what the lands Of the
Northwest will. do and tho men In
charge will inform people or give them
literature showing how and where to
secure 4 home In the American North.
west. ,s -. ~;
/ Many amusement features viii be
introduced In keeping with the char
scter of the exposition. The Mime
sofa First Regiment Band-ths crack
band Of the state, win give four daily
concerts and there win b other dig
nifled amusements and features. II
Win be everything e show and moth
tng to sell. >,@s %. s
Buy or build Z home on monthly
payments. See Knutti & Wanna.