Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-11-06
MEDAL MEDIA FOR
GREAT NORTHERN NOR ! n
Great Northern Railroad Is Ad-
vertising North Dakota
at Exposition

Advertising is an art, and if you
want a direct object lesson in adver-
Using the resources of a state or re-
gion, spend an hour or two in the
Great Northern Railway building at
the lower end of the Marina at the San
Francisco exposition.
Competing against the traffic COM
panies Of the world, this railway COM
pany has been awarded a Gold Medal
for their displays both at San Fran
cisco and San Diego.
The Great Northern Railway has
demonstrated the advantage of max
ing a complete exhibit in one build
ing, and her displays are not scatter
ed through a'half dozen palaces to be
seen or missed. according to the itin,
erary of the visitors. The exhibits
are massed and SO arranged that
everything is seen in order.
The building itself is divided be-
tween the tourist campaign and gen
eral farm immigration work in the
states of Minnesota, North Dakota
Montana, Idaho, Washington and Ore
gon, and the displays of the agricul
tural, horticultural and scenic feat
ures are convincing arguments of the
great wealth. of the Northwest. There
is no duplication and no attempt tt
cater to any particular section or 10
cality, and the displays have been ar
ranged in a manner conveying to the
observer the prime idea of the won
derul possibilities of the Zone OF
Plenty" a slogan given by the empire
railroad builder, James J. Hill, father
of the Northwest.
1t is impossible not to admire the
skill with which these experts have
worked out every detail that goes to.
ward making this exhibit a success.
The building has no other purpose
than to attract farmers, tourists and
capitalists. to the Northwest. What
the farmer is shown is concrete and
practical, he see what the soil will
produce in these states and what the
| railway means to cities that provide
markets.
Much might be said about the best
collection of photographs and hand
colored tr"ansparencies shown by any
of the roads. These transparencies
depict the scenes along the Great Nor
thern Railway lines, especially Glacier
National park, which, a created in
1910. This is Uncle Sans newest
playground which embraces 1900
square miles of land is we'll represent
ed by colored views at once conveying
to the mind the idea of "See America
First"
Among the North Dakota scenes is
a very large photograph of the West
hope, North Dakota, grain elevators
North Dakota Battleships."
Special Rate for Spuds.
Ever since last spring the secretary
of the North Dakota commission at
the San Francisco exposition, has been
striving to secure for the potato grow
ers of North Dakota a freight rate on
carlots of potatoes from North Dakota
to the coast that was in keeping with
rates given other middle west states.
1t was an uphill job, because there
had never been a carload of potatoes
shipped to San Francisco from our
state, and the railroads had to be
shown. The secretary is now in re-
ceipt of a letter from n of the lead
ing railroads crossing North Dakota
saying that within As or 50 days, a
rate of rs percent per cwt. in carload
lots will be in force over it's lines. No
doubt the other lines traversing the
state of North Dakota will follow very
shortly with the same rates.