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A MODERN TRAVELING AGRICULTURAL DISPLAY 



PRACTICALLY ready to start on its 

 ten thousand mile tour, resplendent 

 in fresh varnish and polished brass, the 

 Northern Pacific's Northwest exhibit car 

 is "chock full" of evidence of the produc- 

 tivity and varied resources of the states 

 along its lines: Minnesota, Wisconsin, 

 North Dakota, Montana. Idaho, Oregon 

 and Washington. 



It is not at all a new plan to start out 

 such a car, for the Northern Pacific sev- 

 eral years ago equipped a similar car, 

 which was on exhibition at the World's 

 Fair in Chicago. This car afterwards 

 made numerous tours, advertising the 

 Northwest. 



However, the new car which starts out 

 at this time is of latest model, seventy- 

 five feet long, lighted by electricity and 

 acetylene gas, equipped with extra wide 

 windows, six-wheel trucks and all other 

 details of an up-to-date passenger coach. 



It is an event long to be remembered, 

 especial!}' in a smaller town, for an 

 exhibit car of this character to be pushed 

 in nn the siding and thrown open to the 

 inspection of those who could in no other 

 way see the products of the soil from 

 such a wide range of territory as that 

 lying between the Great Lakes and the 

 Pacific Ocean. The fertile wheat and 

 corn fields of Minnesota and North 

 Dak'-'ia, the farms, orchards and gardens 

 of Montana. Idaho, Washington and 

 Oregon, have all contributed their share 

 to a grand display which for excellence 

 and diversity has never been excelled in 

 any agricultural exhibit, either stationary 

 or on wheels. 



A great many of the exhibits in the car 

 were secured from the Minnesota, North 

 Dakota and ]\Iontana State Fairs, from 

 the Dry Farming Congress recently held 

 at Spokane, and from numerous county 

 fairs held last fall in Washington and 

 other state. By this method the North- 

 ern Pacific has secured a representative 

 display from all these states such as has 

 never before been assembled. 



The itinerary of the car is being care- 

 fully worked out with a view to exhibit- 

 ing it in those sections of the Eastern 

 and Southern states from which thou- 

 sands annually migrate to the Great 

 Northwest beyond the Missouri River. 

 The average Easterner, not inclined to 

 think of the West beyond the Big Muddy 

 as a vast region of cities, fields and farms 

 where state boundaries merge in a same- 

 ness of agricultural landscape, will be 



shown how attractive and how produc- 

 tive are the fields lying along the "Scenic 

 Highway Through the Land of Fortune." 



The car will be accompanied by repre- 

 sentatives of the passenger and immigra- 

 tion departments of the road and by a 

 lecturer who will give illustrated talks to 

 supplement the exhibit. Literature will 

 be liberally distributed to further acquaint 

 Easterners with the great Northwest. 



While chief interest in the car will be 

 among the farming class, yet it is planned 

 to make stops in the smaller towns to 

 show those who labor at trades and in 

 factories the advantages of outdoor life 

 and independence on the orchards and 

 farms along the Northern Pacific. 



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