The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-02-08
frank Nj. Eddy, Harold KnutSOn and
Two Other MinneSOtdnS Fur
niSI. the Hot Air
TOURING DOWN IN IOWA
Railroad Car Filled With Fruits and
Vegetables From North
Star State
(Speciai Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
ST CHARLES, Iowa, Jan. H:-Edl-
tor Herald:
In compliance with the promise
made you at the editorial meeting at
Long Prairie l Shall endeavor to write
asfort account of the trip made by
the Minnesota exhibition car to date.
The car, which is furnished the
state by the Great Northern railway,
is an ordinary passenger coach with
tire seats removed. Both sides, and
also the ceiling, are artistically decor
ated with grasses and sheaf grains
which give the hundreds of daily WIS.,
itors fairly good conception OF Min
nesota's proves in the line of raising
grains and forage. In the center is
long counter adorned with a grill
work partition running the full length
on which are displayed fine samples
o. corn. large jars of preserved fruits.
etc. also placards giving statistics re-
garding Minnesota's production of
butter. eggs. potatoes. the various
grains, iron. timber, ETC., which set
forth in very eloquent terms the
II ~ lei e5IS oppos-t J7nities which tsIis
state has to offer the homeseeker in
vestor and pleasure seeker.
The object in equipping this car
and sending it out on the road is to
advertise the wonderful resources of
Minnesota and the many opportuni-
ties which We have to offer the home
seeker in the.way of cheap homes, and
ca observation | should say that
tni~ IS the MIST effective means yet
ussc to reach the homeseekers of
othar states. A similar car was sent
out last year under the charge of
sam +. Fullerton and the results of
that expedition were far beyond the
hopes of the most Sanguine.
| can conceive of no state i'm the
union where car of this character
can accomplish more real good than
right here in Iowa. The ignorance
Of the average southern Iowan regard
ing the North Star state would be
extremely ludicrous were it not for
the aggravating side of it, In the
first place he does not recognize the
fact that there is another state in the
Union aside from Iowa. Talk about
loyalty to your home state. 1t is ex-
emplified in Iowa as in no other state
that / have ever visited. The people
will start off with grand flourish by
saying that Iowa has the world beat
when it comes to raising corn and
hogs and l think that is proba-
bly, true for have seen some very
fine specimens of corn since coming
here-also great many hogs.
The people of southern Iowa are
fully twenty-five years behind the
times. In the week that l have been
here have come in personal contact
with fully three thousand people and
out OF the number but eight or ten
have ever been in. Minnesota, or more
than twenty-five miles away from
home. Their common conception of |
our state is that it is cold, dismal
waste where one spends most of his
time getting acquainted with Indians
and polar bears. They smile incredu-
,lously when we say that we have ac-
tually suffered more from cold since
coming down here than we ever did !
in Minnesota, which is an actual fact,
for here they have damp cold that
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