The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-01-22
TO SHOW RESOURCES
OF PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Products to be Displayed in Grand
Central Palace in New
York City.

York City.
Commercial organizations Of all the
cities and towns of Washington, Ore
gon and British Columbia are request
ed by the Pacific Northwest Tourist
association to cooperate with the asso-
citation in an exhibition of products
natural advantages, scenery, resour-
ces and other attractions of the Paci-
fic Northwest to be held in the Grand
Central Palace of New York City, the
greatest exhibition hall in the world,
in the latter part of April.
Tentative arrangements for this
great exhibit which will be confined
to the territory embraced by the asso-
citation, were made by Herbert Cuth-
bert, executive secretary, on a recent
visit in the east to arrange for the
tourist travel ofs 1920. The EXPOSE
ton project was endorsed by the di-
rectors of the Pacific Northwest Tour
list Association and the campaign to
interest the commercial organizations
was begun at the meeting of the
Washington State Chamber of Com
merce in Yakima, Jan. z, when the
representatives of the commercial
organizations of Washington pledged
themselves to get all possible support
for the exhibit in their respective
cities and to secure at least 5000
square feet of exhibits from the State
of Washington. The exposition will
entail no great expenditure of organi-
cation funds as it is necessary only
to secure 10000 square feet of ex-
hibit at $1.50 per foot to meet the re-
quirements Of the exposition manage,
ment and little difficulty is anticipat-
ed in getting exhibits from railway
and steamship lines and large indus
tries interested in the wide sale of
their products as basis on which to
build.
In explaining the exposition plans
to the State Chamber of Commerce
meeting at Yakima, Mr.. Cuthbert
said:
"It will be grand travel, See Am
erica Now exposition under the aus
pices Of the Pacific Northwest Tour
list Association and will illustrate what
the Pacific Northwest has to show to
visitors, home steaders, new residents
and investors in the way of scenery,
railway and steamship transporta-
1 ton, natural resources, agricultural
products, fruits, dairy products, cann-
ed goods, manufacturing and indust-
rial lines, lumber, cement, shipbuild-
ing, power developments irrigation
projects and state land settlement
plans. It will afford a splendid OPP
portunity for the exploitation of pro-
ducts of this section.
"The exposition will give an excep-
tional opportunity for publicity for
those industries which are engaged in
national advertising campaigns which
can show how, from small beginnings,
they have grown to be among the
largest concerns in America.
"The greatest publicity value of the
exhibit is due to the fact that the
Grand Central Palace is in the center
of fifteen per cent of the population
of the United States and sixty-seven
per cent of the financial power. It |
will not only advertise cur products
to large percentage of the buying
public but will also advertise the
resources and opportunities to make
money from invested capital to
the biggest financiers of the country.
"The association is asking the state
chamber of commerce to take the lead
in seeing that the State of Washing
ton is properly represented and, thru
the members of the state chamber,
that each commercial organization
sees that it's own city is properly re-
presented.
There could be no other means
devised by which the scenery, the nat
ural wealth, the large industrial pos
sibilities of the Pacific Northwest
could be brought to the attention of
the nation so spectacularly and in a
single moment almost, and by which
financiers could get an adequate
idea of the profitable use that can be
made of money in the states of Wash
ington and Oregon and the Providence
Of British Columbia, as is presented
by this exposition"