Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1896 — Arid Region Exposition. [ARTICLE]

Arid Region Exposition.

It is proposed in Utah to organize in co-operation with neighboring States an'“arid region exposition,” to be held successively in the principal cities of the East, for tbe purpose of showing tbe products and resources of tbe arid region and of trying to dispel tbe notion that still exisfc in some quarters that the country between the Rockies and the Sierras is a hopeless desert, given up* to sage brush and coyotes. The exposition would be something on the line of the exposition soon to be held In San Francisco. Specimens of products from the fields and orchards would be shown, with samples 6t the mineral treasures of the region. Tho exhibits would be displayed in tbe chief cities first, and then divided up for exhibition in smaller cities and throughout the Eastern States. Tbe m<iln idea la, conrae, such an exbfljitidn wbtild attract immigration and capital to tke arid West