Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-08-28
STATE EXHIBITS
AMAZE VISITORS
Wonderful Progress Made by
State Show in Exposition
Exhibits.

MI I'll DdkOla eNnlullS 2I the rama
ma-Pacitic exposition amaze visitors.
During recent years diversified
farming has obtained a strong foot
hold in the state and not only wheat
and flax, but rye, barley, oats, millet,
speltz, alfalfa clover and corn have
been successfully and generally
grown. The latter; crop-corn--is the
real eye-opener, and much of the
North Dakota exhibit at the exposi-
ton revolvos around this crop. And
is is right tnat the state should show
corn as one Of the principal crops, fol
IN the past five years wonderful prog
ress has been made in the growing
of this great cereal In 1910, a little
less than 100000 bushels of corn
were raised in North Dakota, while
last year nearly 100000 bushels
were harvested. Corn to any state
means much. I. means the raising of
hogs and cattle. but it has deeper
meaning also. The growing of corn
not only cleans the land of noxiol.s
weeds, but it cultivates the soil and
puts back into it untold richness that
AIDS IN growing larger crops of other
cereals in the following years. The
intelligent farmer knows that a eli
mate that successfully raises corn is
a good climate to tie to, for corn is the
most valuable crop known to mankind.
1t is fitting that North Dakota push
her claims as a corn state, for the fur.
Their reason that $50 years ago the In
dams of what is now known as North
Dakota. raised corn and raised it sue
cussfully. in the last century when
Lewis and Clark made their famous
exploratory expedition through the
then unknown great Northwest, they
spent one winter with the Indians of
North Dakota, and part of their daily
menu consisted of corn, raised by
their Indian hosts.
North Dakota has more coal than
any other state in the Union. Start
ling, but true. For many years the
United States Geological Survey gave
the state 100000, 100000 tons OF coal
but a recent survey adds greatly to
this estimate, and in the Palace Of
Mines at The exposition is a set of
cubes showing the coal in each state
in the United States, and North Da-
kota leads them all with an estimate
OF $4,000 100000 tons. There are
$4,000 square miles of coal land in
North Dakota. while Pennsylvania
only has 1850 square miles of coal
land. The North Dakota coal is
known as Ignite coal, one Of the best
| formations of gas COAL the gas eX-
tracted from it being high grade OF
marsh gas-one of the hottest gases
known. The coal is also strong in 9th
err bv-products, for besides 10000 GU
bic feet of gas in dry ton, there can
be extracted crude oil, tar, pitch, am.
monia and wood stain, and still the
residue will produce briquets that
have nine-tenths thevalue of anthra-
! cite coal. An eye-opener indeed
But the North Dakota state exhibit
at the exposition further takes off the
"blinders" by showing consecutively
| that the state has immense and unde.
veloped deposits of potters clay
! equal to the clay imported from Ger
many and England by American pot
! tiers. This is a real strong statement,
but nevertheless true, as can be seen
by visiting the North Dakota building
and examining the samples on display
ranging from the finest examples OF
| the potters art down to the every day
articles of commerce, such as tile
jars, jugs, crucibles, brick, etc. For
years the School of Mines, located at
the State University at Grand Forks,
has been experimenting with these
clays until now we are able to an
nounce to the world that North Dako
ia will soon be the principal pottery
state in the Union. Best of all, the
coal and clay lie close together, and
water is near at hand. For the pros
pective investor III the pottery bust