Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1893 — An Attractive Exhibit at the World’s Fair [ARTICLE]

An Attractive Exhibit at the World’s Fair

We gather from our Northwestern exchanges that a most attractive exhibit of products of tho seven Northwestern Statos is being made by the Northern Pacific Unilroad Company at tho World’s Columbian Exposition, which opened the Ist of May, and will continue until Nov. 1, 189;i. The samples of products which are being exhibited were gathered from the States of Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Monlara, Idaho, Washington and Oregon, and arc arr; nged in two elegant exhibit cars built especially for the purpose by tho company at their shops at Bt. Paul. Each one of tho cars has two large bay windows on each side reaching from the floor to the roof, as well as other largo windows. The cars are vestibuled and splendidly decorated. The samples of products displayed In the cars will include all kinds of grains, fruits, gtassos, ores, woods, iron, coal, precious metals and stones, hops, tobacco, building stone, wool, fish, aerated, dried, preserved and canned fruits end vegetables, and in tho season frosji apples, pears, plums, peaches, prunes, grapes, melons, roots and garden vegetables will be exhibited. This general collection of products will show the resources of the extensive regions traversed by the Northern Pacific Eallroad in its course lrom the Great Lakes to Puget Sound and the Pacific Coast, a distance of ‘2,500 miles. Intending settlers w.ll find it to their advantage to examine the samples of products in the Northern Pacific exhibit. The products will show the resources of an important region of country now opon for settlement, in which there Is room for a million families to secure Independent homes. The cars are placed on one of tho tracks in the large annex to tho Transportation Exhibit Building. This exhibit building Is one of the grandest of the Exposition buildings, and will contain for exhibit an extremely interesting collection of every known vehicle, vessel, conveyance or contrivance for transportation by land, water and air, both ancient and modern, from the finest modern locomotives, vessels and cars to the most ancient known devices for transportation.