The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-13
SHOWING WONDER
Of SEVEN STATES
Big Northwestern Land Pro-
ducts Show at Minneapo-
lis Proving Success

Minneapolis. Nov. 13.-Fourtcen
hundred students of the Minnesota
state agricultural college. members OF
a number OF fraternal organizations
win cities are guests today of the sec
II Northwest Products exposition,
which is being held here.
Everything in soil products that
eve states can produce. in greater
p%rofusion and variety than ever
brought together before is tastefully
and attractively displayed in the
armorH annex.
Twenty-one per cent of the entire
scented in the show.
1t cost more than $4,000 to get it
together.
Its exhibits are the cream of the
products of $4,000 square miles of
territory.
The exhibits fill 10000 square feet
of floor space.
Lectures Tell of Settlers.
The 500 line and the Northern I'M
migration commission of the Northern
Minnesota Development association
effected today an important change In
the program Of the lecture course that
is to continue daily during the land
show. The 500 will relinquish half of
us lSIlulS VIII w NAAS AVA =
nesota immigration commission.
which will mean that there will be Il
fifteen minute lecture every second day
by George e. Winter of Bemidji. fully
illustrated. that will show northern
Minnesota and the process OF settling
it. actual scenes in the clearing Of the
land. the crops that were raised last
and preparations for the crop OF
the veal TO ONE first-year crops OF
past seasons from various portions.
and other views of the opening Of a
rich. ley country.
The work of the 500 lines stump
puller will also he Illustrated and the
views Of this giant machine in opera
ton will be Of interest. The program
for the lecture course had been so
completely filled hat 1t vas not pos
sible for northern Minnesota. by adj
ditional or supplemental program. to
get in. The giving over of half the
500 line time is the most important
program from the standpoint OF
interest in the work Of settling and
bringing under cultivation the north
ern part of the state.
Outdoors Brought Indoors.
the show. is that all the big outdoors
has been brought indoors. and this is
%deepened by the line of large paint
ings thai are hung about the walls
above the booth tops. There are twen-
ty-tive of them. a hay field with the
sunlight on 1t. a lake in the Rocky
sheep in an orchard. a wa
ter fall and suspension bridge. Glacier
National park scenes and a plowman
turning the sod follow in line. then
comes a scene in the Rockies. sheep on
a riv.or no rL a oNnnfr,. ceotin~ S.iSh
the familiar grain elevators clustered
about the station. and an Indian sit
ting before his tepee. with a fire light
ed. a horse in the right foreground,
the snow-capped tops of great noun
tains in the distance and a railway
train that seems almost to move. show
ing in a faint streak at their base. 1t
is the epic of the west. Purposely.
however. no effort has been made to
nothing has heen attempted in success
sive order and it is better so. One
sees how effort to follow up from be-
ginning to present stage of develop
ment, would have been incongruous
and would have given too sharp con
trast to the two ends Of the line. In
stead the pictures have been put in
where they have hest happened to At.
so that each is appropriate and each
Is IN harmony WIN what Is Deneatn
it in the form Of live exhibit.
A farmhouse with windmill. harms.
granaries and W. loads of hay being
driven away the horses prancing gaily.
comes in the nex picture. Deer
drinking at the marke Of a silvery
lake, a poultry ranch with white chic
kens. a river bank farm and a view
of the famous orchard owned by Sen
William E. Clarke at Missoula,
Mont. come in that order. There is
another river bank and orchard, a
river and road leading from the
mountains down into the plains. an IN
let in the far west with a village at
the base of rugged hills. and then in
pictures of 10 and 20. the great grain
fields Of the west. golden colored.
beautiful and inspiring.
Mountain Scenes Shown.
Mountains and plains and farm
lands follow, a Swiss chalet is shown.
Yellowstone park Views. and then a
famous Indian painting Of Chief White
Calf Of the Blackfeet tribe holding q
conference with his people prepara-
tory to signing a treaty with the gov
eminent whereby the Indians famous
Rocky mountain hunting fields lands
We're opened as a forest reserve and
a~fterward made into Glacier park.