People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1893 — THE GREAT NORTHWEST. [ARTICLE]

THE GREAT NORTHWEST.

Its Remarkable Development Shown by a World's Fair Exhibit. The Transportation building at the World’s Fair is the most interesting feature of the great exposition to all persons interested in the development of the United Blates. It contains a complete exhibit of the latest railway appliances as well as the quaint locomotive and stage coaches of the past. The Northern Pacific railroad went a step further than other transportation companies when it resolved to show two elegant cars, especially built for the purpose, containing samples of products gathered from the states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. The company was, no doubt, prompted to make this display because the completion of its transcontinental line made the development of the states named possible. Had ft not been for the enterprise and pluck of the originators and managers of the Northern Pacific railroad, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Washington would still be frontier territories inhabited by Indians and wild beasts, instead of being progressive and prosperous commonwealths. The products exhibited by the seven states are handsomely arranged and include all kinds of grams in the straw; threshed grains and seeds, fruits and berries; wild and cultivated grasses; ores, woods, iron and coal; precious metals and atones; hops, tobacco and flax; flour, wool and fish; tanning bark and tanning acid; marble, building stone, potter and brick: aerated, dried, preserved and canned fruits; vegetables, petrified woods, fine mineral specimens, etc., etc. In the season of fresh apples, pears, plums, cherries, peaches, prunes, grapes, berries, melons, roots and garden vegetables will be brought from the northwestern states, daily, for exhibition. In short, the exhibit comprises a general collection of all kinds of products to show the diversified resources of the seven great northwestern states traversed by the Northern Pacific railroad. ‘Visitors who intend to invest money in the northwest are reminded by attractive placards that the company still retains control of immense tracts of land in that territory, the exact figures being as follows: Minnesota, 1,200,000 acres; North Dakota, 6,Bso,oooacres; Montana, 17,300,000 acres; Idaho, 1,740,000 acres; Oregon, 800,000 acres; and Washington, B,7oo,oooacres. The two exhibit cars are marvels of the car builder’s art. They are vesttbuled; have large bay windows reaching from floor to roof; are decorated with ornamental woods from the forests along the Northern Pacific, and are in themselves an exhibit worthy of thoughtful inspection. The cars are placed on one of the tracks in the large annex to the Transportation building.

Toubist—“What the mischief are you covering up that footprint for, Sandy!” Sandy —“Weel, ye see, mister, the queen passed along here yesterday, and visited our little village, she did,ana it was the only thing she left to remind us of he visit. Bo we’U just be keepln' it carefully.”—Punch. “There are so'tne things I can’t understand," said Hal. “If I get my feet wet, I get a cold in my head; but I can wet my head twice a day and never get a cold in my reui." “There goes a man who is as well posted on strikes as any man I ever saw.” “Made a study of the labor question, has he!" “No. but he’s been a baseball umpire for years.” —lnter Ocean. “Wht is it,” she asked, “that stolen kiaxes are always the *weeiestV’ “I guess,” he replied, “it is because they are taken sirup-Uuously.”-. Boston Courier.