The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-03-27
SPOKANE IS after
THE S|LvERWARE
Planning to Recover Cups Cap
twed by Canadians at Dry
Farming Congresses

LETHBRIDGE. Alberta. Canada.
nearly all Of the silver cups and val
liable prizes at the Dry Farming con-
crosses at Billings, Spokane and Colo
RADIO Springs. have got to look to
their laurels this fall, for the Spokane
Chamber OF Commerce is going to en-
deavor to recapture all that silver
ware and some smore besides, accord
ing to the entries and space reserva-
tons made for that organization at
the International Dry EARNED Pro-
ducts DISPOSITION, to be held at Leth-
bridge, October alps.
Daniel Morgan, financier and bank
err Of Spokane, is the organizer of
this movement to give the Canadians
"a big run for their money" and he
II one Of the most energetic men on
the Board of Trustees of the Spo-
kane Chamber of Commerce. AS
chairman of the agricultural, horti-
cultural and dairying committee of
that organization, Mr.. Morgan is
making things hum, according to all
reports. He has stirred up the
growers of world prize winning grain
in Alberta and Saskatchewan by his
announcement, and they are this
early preparing to grow still better
grains than heretofore, and some are
now devoting their evenings sorting
seed with microscopes by oil lamps.
In statement issued this week,
following meeting of the trustees
Of the Spokane Chamber Of Com
merce, at which a large appropriation
was made to meet the expense of
gathering an exhibit, Mr.. Morgan
said:
I'VE are going IN strong for every
thing in sight at the big Dry Farming
Congress Exposition at Lethbridge
next October. We shall enter several
exhibits in the sweepstake class for
one bushel Of hard wheat, in which
the prize 10 a $500 Rumely tractor
engine, and we are going to COM
pete for the valuable prizes for dry
farmed fruits, grasses and cereals. We
are out for the silverware that the
Canadians have been carting home
for three years past, and We plan to
bring back as much as they have car
ried of. and then some more for in
terest and good advertising.
Martin J. Vessels, curator of the
chamber, is to have charge of the
decorative features Of our exhibit,
and also collect and prepare the
grains, grasses and fruit We are to
have the cooperation of the Inland
Empire Association of Commercial
Clubs. and there will be besides ex-
htbits under the district classes a
large number In the individual COM
petitions. in fact, we are going to en-
ter on everything grown in Washing
ton, Oregon and Idaho--and We are
going to have the prize winners. too.
Our delegation and our exhibit is
going on a special train. We have
the assurance Of big delegation,
too, and we have engaged Bob Hen
bricks Bfngville Band. which was
the hit of the National Apple Show
last fall. Then. too, we will have SO
members of the Enakops Patrol, in
uniform, and they will do some stunts
that will make people sit up and take
notice. William S. McCrea, the i'm
perial kopsan Of this Mysterious and
Mystic Order. Is in charge of this
part of the arrangements, and he has
applications from enough members
to nearly fill the train already. Res
ervations are being made for num-
Der of the leading dry farmers of the
Inland Empire. and. If the accommo-
dations are insufficient with one train,
we will run two.
THE Eastern Washington delega-
ton will be big one, as dry-farming
holds the attention of thousands of
successful farmers in that section.
About 100000 acres of our best
dry-farmed lands are devoted to
wheat, and we can grow wheat, too.
Wait till they see it in Lethbridge!
We also grow oats and barley, and
we are going to have some of those
Oregon potato growers with us, for
Tillman Reuter-. who has won the pc
tato prizes In the past, is out for
every one of those offered this year
And in alfalfa there Is going to be
something doing, too!
I'VE And great enthusiasm in the
plan to enter in every class open to
US, and we will have the biggest and
best exhibit ever sent out of the In
land Empire