The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-04-17
Vacation And Farm Data
Is Sent To Many Advertisers
PAGE TEN

Promise of a banner tourist year
and greater farm growth than Min
nesota has enjoyed for many years
ing received at the offices of the Ten
Thousand Lakes-Greater Minnesota
Association from the first advertising
efforts of 1929.
This year, according to Roy E.
Dunn of Pelican Rapids, president, the
Association is embarking for the first
time on a program devoted equally
to advertising the agricultural and
recreational advantages of the state.
The program calls for a greater ex-
penditiure than ever before, because
of the addition of the agricultural
element. This means that every COM
munity in the state will have to as
sumo its share of support to the work
says Mr.. Dunn, but with proper sup
port the most effective effort ever
made to sell Minnesota to the world
will be put across.
Since the first of the year 682 in
quiries concerning agricultural OPP
III IL
through the mails, says Mr.. Dunn.
This he believes should show conclu-
sively that people of other parts of
the nation realize no state offers bet
ter farming opportunities than Min
nesota and that there is an increasing
interest in Minnesota lands.
Inquiries concerning vacations are
much heavier than during previous
years, and at this date there is every
indication that 1929 will be a banner
tourist year. The letters that have
been received from all parts of the
United States, and in some instances
from foreign shores have come in
response to the advertising efforts of
the Ten Thousand Lakes-Greater
Minnesota association which have
been in progress for several months
to attract new citizens to the state.
Some of the inquiries have been re-
ceived from readers of farm journals
through which campaign was con-
Quoted last fall. Others are coming
through the general advertising cam
paign which has just been started in
publications with aggregate corcula-
tons of more than eleven million
readers who are being apprised that
Minnesota holds forth unusual agri-
cultural opportunities.
Mr.. Dunn is enthusiastic concerning
the outlook for 1929 and voicing his
views says: early inquiries at the
offices of the Ten Thousand Lakes
Greater Minnesota Association would
indicate that Minnesota will not only
have a banner tourist year, but that
we should also interest more persons
in coming to the state to live than
we have in many years. l am espe-
clally pleased with the results that
have been achieved so far in our farm
program. We are actually just get
ting started in this work and yet we
have had several hundreds responses
to our first efforts. We have a bic
program under way along the line
of agricultural development and if
we get the proper financial co-opera-
tion from the various communities
1929 should show marked increases
in actual immigration of new citizens
to our state. Everything depends
upon the funds placed at our disposal.
Half of the income of the associa-
ton will be devoted to agricultural
development this year and arrange
ments for the expenditure of those
funds have already been made in the
placing of advertising contracts with
fran magazines and newspapers,
billboards, and in the printing of
farm booklets which will soon be
completed by the printers.
81 have always believed that Min
nesota was the best state in the Union
and the interest we are finding in
outside places causes to feel more
optimistic than ever. The response
to our advertising efforts has been
of such character that l anticipate
great results when we turn on the
big guns in the near future. When
we turn on the guns it is our intention
to keep firing until late in the fall,
and believe that year from now
there will be no question in the mind
of anyone as to whether Minnesota is
a good product, and worth selling to
the world"