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Luther Burbank's wonderful discovery, the thornless 

 Cactus, which, according to the statements of the Wizard, 

 will revolutionize the dairy and cattle business, and give 

 to humanity a food at once wholesome and delicious. 



California. No attempt was made to make a display 

 of the resources of California, but the California Promo- 

 tion Committee had established headquarters in charge of 

 Dr. Clarence E. Edwards and Miss Chapline, where in- 

 formation and literature regarding California was dis- 

 tributed. Dr. Edwards, in a communication to the AGE, 

 states that during the time of the Exposition fully 3.000 

 people registered at the Information Bureau, of whom he 

 felt confident fully 2,700 would go to his state. During 

 his twenty-one days' stay in Chicago Dr. Edwards deliv- 

 ered nineteen lectures to 15,000 people. It is hardly neces- 

 sary to make any extended mention of California's well- 

 known attractions in this connection. 



The Dahlhjelm Company of Lewiston, Idaho, with a 

 Chicago office at 1206 Schiller Building, in charge of 

 Messrs. R. S. Thain, E. M. Reed and F. S. Millar, H. S. 

 Fish, R. D. Bokum. Jr., exhibiting Lewiston Land & 

 Water Company's irrigated lands. 



The French Land & Irrigation Company of French, 

 New Mexico, displayed an exhibit which attracted more 

 than ordinary attention, owing to the fine display of fruit 

 and vegetables, as well as grains. This booth was in 

 charge of Mr. Maxson of the Chicago office, who fur- 

 nished all callers with detailed information concerning 

 the opportunities for home-building under their project. 

 The French Land & Irrigation Company's offices in Chi- 

 cago are on the sixth floor of the Atwood Building, 

 where intending purchasers may secure further data 

 and information upon application, as well as a lot of 

 good literature gotten out by this company. 



The Twentieth Century Grader and Sage Brush Grub- 

 ber, manufactured by the Baker Manufacturing Company. 

 726 Fisher Building, Chicago, Illinois, had one of their 

 latest models on exhibition. This booth was in charge of 

 Mr. C. C. Stewart, who was kept busy answering- ques- 

 tions and demonstrating the machine. 



Denver Reservoir & Irrigation Company showed a 

 model of the irrigation system of the Company, together 

 with an exhibit of products. 



Standley Lake Irrigation System of the "Denver- 

 Greeley" Irrigation District. This also is one of the 

 numerous projects financed by the firm of Trowbridge 

 & Niver Company of Chicago. 



Bitter Root Valley Irrigation Company, of 100 Wash- 

 ington Street, Chicago, and Hamilton, Montana, in charge 

 of Messrs. Dwight L. Woodruff, F. D. Nichols, Jas. B. 

 Ransen, T. S. Miller, G. B. Nash. R. E. Mathews, J. M. 

 Lovett and E. W. Herbst. This display, being located at 

 one end of the building, the opportunities for making it 

 effective were utilized to the utmost. A large map of 

 the Bitter Root Valley, showing the irrigation system 

 and towns, and the topographic features being clearly 

 shown, together with a display of irrigated products. 



The State of Wyoming. This exhibit was in charge 

 of Mr. R. A. Whitely from Cheyenne and Professor 

 Buffum of the State Agricultural Experiment Station at 

 Worland, who delivered lectures on Wyoming during the 

 week. The space reserved included exhibits from the 

 Eden Irrigation & Land Company, the financial sponsors 

 of which are Messrs. Farson Son & Co., of Chicago, and 

 which has frequently been referred to as one of the last 

 of the first-class Irrigation Projects offering water-rights 

 at a minimum figure; also of the Wyoming Land & Irri- 

 gation Company of Greybull, Wyoming, which has de- 

 veloped a tract of 15,000 acres under their Shell Creek 

 canal. The State exhibit was a part of the permanent 

 collection maintained at Cheyenne in charge of Mr. 

 Whitely. A free information booth was maintained by 

 the State, at which circulars describing its resources, 

 prepared by Mr. Robt. P. Fuller, the State Land Commis- 

 sioner, were distributed gratis. The display of the State 

 was very interesting, and consisted of practically all the 

 products of the temperate zone. Particularly interesting 

 were some as yet unnamed forage grasses, produced by 

 scientific plant breeding upon the part of the Wyoming 

 Plant & Seed Breeding Company, of Worland. While 

 -it is estimated that there are water resources in the State 



sufficient to reclaim a total of 10,000,000 acres, only about 

 1,500,00) acres have been segregated for this purpose. 



Yates & McLain Realty Company of Colorado 

 Springs, Colorado, made an interesting display of the 

 products of this climatically favored district. 



Baldwin County, Alabama. Sub-tropical fruits and 

 tresh preserved, and "Casava," the new food plant. This 

 exhibit embraced that of the Magnolia Spring Land Com- 

 pany of Chicago, with Mr. J. D. Foley in charge. The 

 Alabama-Sumatra Company, in charge of Mr. P. S. Hamm 

 and the Baldwin County Colonization Company, a Ger- 

 man organization. 



Yakima Valley, Washington, Exhibit displayed by 

 the United C9mmercial Clubs of Yakima Valley, repre- 

 senting the cities of North Yakima, Sunnyside. Toppe- 

 msh, Zillah. and Prosser, all of these districts being a part 

 of the Government's justly famed Reclamation Project. 

 The exhibit was confined almost entirely to apples, and 

 was donated to charitable institutions of the City of 

 Chicago at the close of the show. 



San Diego County, California, Exhibit, upon behalf 

 of the county, represented by Mr. Jas. E. Jasper. This 

 was made up of a beautiful collection of citrus fruits, 

 apples and nuts, one of the prominent features being a 

 large theremometer showing the daily range of tempera 

 ture at San Diego, California. 



Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. It must have 

 been a source of gratification to this enterprising Rail- 

 road Company, which has done so much to lead thou- 

 sands to a "better life'' in the great Southwest, to witness 

 the immense amount of interest aroused by its exhibit, 

 crowded as it was to the point of discomfort from morn- 

 ing to night. As a matter of fact, it required the efforts 

 of a number of police officers to maintain some semblance 

 of order among the throng which gathered to view this 

 exhibit, which consisted of an exact reproduction built of 

 adobe brick of a typical Pueblo Indian dwelling and 

 Navajo Hogan, with all furnishings, and of a number 

 of Pueblo and Navajo Indian families, the whole set off 

 by a painting in the background, representing a charac- 

 teristic northern Arizona landscape. 



Fort Smith, Arkansas. The chief feature of this ex- 

 hibit was a farm wagon manufactured at Fort Smith, and 

 loaded in an artistic manner with farm and garden prod- 

 ucts. Mr. W. S. Furman was in charge. 



The Rock Island-Frisco Railroad Company. This 

 exhibit consisted of a huge map 15 feet by 30 feet, showing 

 all of the States traversed by lines of this road, its Cities 

 and chier <ii features, and agricultural products, 



and was arranged so as to present the view to the ob- 

 server as being taken from the City of Chicago, looking 

 south and southwest. Tastefully arranged exhibits of the 

 products along its lines were arranged about the walls. 



Southern Pacific Railway Company. Perhaps the 

 largest amount of space in the hall devoted to one exhibit 

 was that of the Southern Pacific and allied lines, con- 

 sisting of four ingeniously devised models of farming 

 scenes along its lines, backed up by panoramic views and 

 displaying in order pictures of Central Texas and Louisi- 

 ana, Southern California, Central California and the Hood 

 River Region in Oregon and along the line of the Oregon 

 Railway & Navigation Company. A miniature double- 

 track railroad, traversing all these sections, and the 

 boundaries between them by tunnels, with a complete 

 block-signal apparatus, over which a miniature railroad 

 was kept in constant operation, completed a series of 

 pictures as artistic as they were clever. The entire dis- 

 play presented a faithful reproduction of the district 

 mentioned, and was worked out with a faithfulness of 

 detail and artistic feeling highly creditable. 



Farson, Son & Co., Chicago, 111., with offices in the 

 First National Bank Building. This enterprising firm, 

 which has behind it a record of creditable effort in the 

 work of reclaiming Desert Lands in Wyoming and in 

 other states under the provisions of the Carey Act, de- 

 parted somewhat radically from the methods adopted by 

 other exhibitors; in fact, it represented no display of its 

 activities aside from what was shown in the exhibit of the 

 State of Wyoming in connection with the Eden Land & 

 Irrigation Companv, whose securities were underwritten 

 by it. Its entire large space was generously devoted to 



