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TIIE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1910.
A better bigger, busier Omaha
That is what The Omaha Bee has always
worked for and is working for today.
When Omaha was struggling to be a city, in the seventies, The Bee was doing yoeman
1 service; when it forged ahead, in the eighties, The Bee was the leader in the progressive work
' when the Trans-Mississippi Exposition organized largely through the fearless efforts of the late
Edward Rosewater The Bee helped put Omaha back on its feet; again, when the National Corn
Exposition was exploited, The Bee was behind it and Omaha was put on the map in the mind of
the whole country as the metropolis of the richest agricultural district in the world the logi
cal city of the Corn Belt.
But Omaha must still go ahead.
Ten years from now Omaha must have 300,000 popu
lation. Where does Omaha's best opportunity for growth lie?
The future growth, not only of Omaha, but of every
town and city in Nebraska and for that matter in the whole
Missouri River Valley every town where there is a jobbing
house or smoke stack depends on the growth and develop
ment of the newer west.
In Wyoming, in Colorado, in Utah, in Idaho, in Montana, in Washington, in Ore- ,
gon and in California, in each state there is room and opportunity, for an empire as
rich and as populous as the Netherlands.
This territory is best reached from Omaha
as a distributing center.
The railroads the Union Pacific, the Burlington, the North
western, and the Rock Island in their steel net work, reach
out fan-shaped to supply the needs of this territory from Omaha.
This territory needs Omaha.
The Missouri River Valley is the natural market place for
the sale of western land and Omaha is its market town.
Our people do not Invest in stocks and bonds; they put their money In land. This
is a great and rich country and the surplus is going to be invested in land somewhere.
Heretofore it has been largely invested in Canadian, Oklahoma and Texas land.
A man or a dollar invested to the north or to the south of us is gone forever. Planted
to the west of us, it will bring an ever increasing return. Moreover, in the newer west
are the best land investment opportunities the United States has ever seen. J
The policy of The Omaha Bee is to carry on a campaign
to further these ends. This will be done, not only through
our two publications, The Omaha Bee and the Twentieth Cen
tury Farmer; but through an annual exposition to be known as
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OMAHA, cJTA.MUA.IRlf IS to 2i, 1S11.
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The Western Land-Products Exhibit
will be held in the City of Omaha from
January 18 to 28, 1911.
Scope It will be a comprehensive exhibit of
the West, its progress, its products,
and its possibilities.
Object .The object of the exhibit is to bring a
practical demonstration of what the
agricultural west can do, direct to our people.
It will be an actual and authentic demon
stration, of what can be grown, of the cost of
production, of the financial returns and of
the conditions under which crops are pro
duced, so that interested parties can obtain
practical and accurate information.
Location The location of the exhibit at Om
aha is the most desirable in the
country for several reasons. The last two
sessions of the National Corn Exposition
were held in Omaha, because of its being in
the heart of the great corn belt and in a rich,
well developed country. The Western Land
Product Exhibit will offer a practical show
ing to the people of a section already de
veloped, of the opportunities in the new, but
only partially developed, or the entirely un
developed sections, rich in opportunity for
the pioneer and the investor.
Exposition The exposition building will be
Building the Omaha Aduitorium which
occupies an entire city block. It
is one of the best in the whole country and is
especially adapted for the holding of this
great exhibit. It will be appropriately deco
rated with a scheme especially designed for
the Western Land-Products Exhibit.
Time The time, January 18 to 28, is the best
time in the year for the exhibitor and
the visitor, and it will give the prospective
land buyer an opportunity to meet the man
who has land to sell and learn from first
hands of the land and what can be raised
on it
General Farming conditions will be shown,
Exhibits how crops are raised by irrigation,
by dry farming methods and also
under conditions in the sections where there
is a normal rainfall, each being portrayed in
a graphic manner. At the exhibit, those who
wish to know of water rights, of irrigation
methods, of the advantages of new methods
of cultivation and as to what plans of need
ing and harvesting are best adapted to the
sections in which they are interested, will be
able to obtain accurate information from
persons who are familiar with the same.
Special Exhibits of grasses as well as
Exhibits grains, of vegetables as well as
fruits, of the products of forest and
of vineyards, of western factories and of
western homes, will be shown and will tell
the visitor face to face as to what possibili
ties are open to him. The alfalfa and wheat,
oats and barley, apples and peaches, melons
and berries, sugar beets and dairy products,
as well as the countless other products of the
soil and those of mines and orchads and for
ests, will be displayed so that the person who
wants accurate information can have the pro
ducts themselves shown before him.
Entertainment Entertainment features will
be of high character and in
harmony with the general plan of the ex
hibit. Moving pictures of scenes of general
interest and many taken specially for the
exhibit will be 6hown; views showing the
land of opportunity as it is and as it devel
. ops band concerts and special features will
entertain the visitors as they attend the exhibit.
Attendance This will be a western exhibit
and the west is invited to take
part in it. Not only the states but the com
munities and all high class commercial pro
jects, worthy of the support of the people,
are invited to join. The completed results
will be a display which will attract and en
tertain, fascinate and instruct the visitor,
and place him in touch with the great oppor
tunity which he has been seeking. The at
tendance will be from the states which lead
in the preduction of farm crops, and will be
made up of men who know the value of land
as an investment.
Making a
Team out of
the Old and
New "West
The Western Land-Produoti
Exhibit will take the man to
the opportunity as well as the
opportunity to the man. It will
draw the man who is seeking
the opportunity to make an investment; it
will draw the man who is searching for a
place where he can build up his own fortune
in a new country; it will draw the man who
is looking for an opening for his sons where
they can grow up in the "new west" as he
grew up in the "old west" It will be the
greatest opportunity ever offered to those
who have lands and enterprises to exploit, to
bring them to the man who is seeking them.
Backed by
the Omaha
Bee and
Twentieth
Century
Farmer
This enterprise is backed by the
Bee Publishing Company through'
its publications, The Omaha Daily
Bee and The Twentieth Century
Farmer. It has been the policy,
of the management of these pub
lications to devote them unre
servedly to the upbuilding of the west. With
the Omaha Bee, a newspaper of national in
fluence, and The Twentieth Century Farmer,
a magazine of about 100,000 circulation, thor
oughly covering the entire corn belt, the conv
bination of exposition, daily newspaper influ
ence and education of the farmer as well as
the city investor, is bound to create immeas
urable results for the newer west. More than
anything else does the growth of Omaha de
pend on this same development It will be
held under the auspices of
The Omaha Daily Bee and The Twentieth Century Farmer
