The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-08
EXPOSITION FUR
 1917 IS GIVEN
 A B|C BOOST
PRESIDENT OF ALASKA CLUB OF LOS ANGELES, IS
 ENTHUSED.

David T. Roy, president of the Alaska club of Los Angeles, in a letter to the owner of The Citizen, received Friday, strongly favors the plan of holding an exposition in this ed in Fairbanks, and is now mem Der of the legal firm of Roy X Yager.
 It is the opinion of Mir Roy that such an exposition would bring to this city from 25O,O0O to 500 900 people. His letter, in part, is as follows:
 regularly, and 1 assure you that it gives me a great deal of pleasure to read of what the different friends and acquaintances are doing in and around Fairbanks.
 Tn one of the issues notice where the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce and the citizens of Fair banks are thinking seriously of hay ing an exposition in Fairbanks at the opening of the railroad into Fair banks I do not hesitate in sayins Z that l believe that would be one of the best enterprises for the devel- opment of Alaska that could be un- dertaken. There is no question in m ymind but what if there were reasonable rates made from the Outside to Fairbanks direct, the in ner passage advocated and the beau tiful scenery booklets and circulars gotten out, but what it would be the cause directly of 250,000 to 500,000 people visiting Fairbanks and other portions of Alaska. There are many inquiries in month from outsiders, who ask me and others what Oppor- tunities Alaska has.
 "A few days ago the State Fedora tion, which includes practically all the states and territories of the United States, located at Los Angeles, held a meeting when the presidents and different members who were pres ent agreed to have a Carnival of State Societies. At that particular meet ing they asked me what We could show them from Alaska. told them that We could show as much from Alaska as any state in the union The question was advanced by some person from Kansas what could We possibly show in an agricultural line told them of the potatoes that l had seen raised in and around Fair banks, the oats, cabbages, turnips and different vegetables. They thought that was out of proportion to the various statements they had heard of Alaska, that it was nothing but frozen, solid chunk of ice. Now this is the impression of seven out of every ten people who come from the middle West. The Carni- val Societies will have their meet ing starting on June Sth, 1914 and lasting up until June goth. Each state will have a booth and in that booth they will have the different productions of the state and each of those productions will be event ually voted upon and sold to the highest bidders
 You can readily see what great opportunity things of this kind will be for Alaska, but unfortunately the time is so short and the time of tle year is such that we, from Alaska, could not show what we could do.
 II write this to you, so that it might be well for the people of Fairbanks, particularly the Chamber of Commerce and the business men to get in touch with the different State Societies of the different cit ies and start the little campaign at this time for the exposition at Fairbanks; and whatever l can do toward advancing the interest of Fairbanks and the interest of the people therein, or the people of Alaska, I want it distinctly under stood by you and my friends that will willingly do, and at no time