Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-10-10
SEVEN STATES TO
HOLD BIG SHOW
Minneapolis TO Have Northwest
ern Products Exposition.
Dates NOVEMBER II TO %
Governors and Business Men Of Min.
nesota, the Dakotas, Montana, Idaho,
Washington and Oregon Join In
Bringing pIsplaYs from Seven states,

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Washington and Oregon Join In
Bringing Displays from Seven States.
To bring under one roof O complete
display Of the products of seven states
and the territory Of Alaska and show
en It's 10000 square feet Of exhibit
space the best of everything which
has been produced during the season
Of 1912 in 1908, 600 square miles Of ter.
r1tory, is the big task which the gov.
errors Of these seven states and an
organization OF Western business men
have attempted.
The idea is to collect the best sam
pies from sever state and some sixty
Or seventy county fairs and, bringing
them together, hold a great fair 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 all summer collecting
the prize winning grains, grasses
fruits, vegetables and plants, as well
as securing displays Of the products OF
he 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 the seasons bumper
crop has been harvested. The bust
ness men of Minneapolis have erected
this building at a cost OF SIS. 900 and
invited the governors of the seven
states to make II the home OF their
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
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 EXPOSE
don and on these days the governors
OF the states and some prominent men
viii 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 aver been
created. The exposition will be a 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 will all oc.
eupy about the same amount Of space
and have booths OF a general size. yari.
ous 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 supplementing the
state exhibits.
A visit to the exposition is ex.
pected to give one almost as much
as an extended trip through
the seven states. The whole idea ia
give the visitors information about
the AMERICAN Northwest; to create
. knowledge Of the possibilities, op-
and destinations to be
found In this great territory whore
now only 1000. 900 people live ON 1885,
700. 200 acres Of land.
Because this exposition is given by
Ne states themselves, and is not In
my way a private enterprise, the In.
II is expected to give viii
% authentic. The men connected with
he exhibits have been appointed by
he governors and represent the high
vt class If citizenship in the North
vest. It will be q show Of the whole
people Of the area represented. just as
} state fair is q show BY the people of
state.