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OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNlNfl, OCTOmm 8, 1911.
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Fruits of Wonderful West at Second Omaha Land Show
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HEN the second Omaha Land Show
opens its floors at 6 o'clock on the
night of Monday. October 16, It will
afford opportunity to the people of
this city and the middle west to wit
neES a display the like of which has
never been staged in this section of the
country. The Bhow will continue until Saturday,
October 28, with doors open from 9:30 each day
"until 10 o'clock at night. The admission has been
fixed at 2 3 cents to enable everybody to view a
vast line of exhibits that will be educational as well
ns pleasing in a high degree.
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and besides the mayors and city officials of Omaha, J
South Omaha and Council Bluffs Governor Aldrich fv.
NvIU be here to assist in giving the exhibition an
Buspicious start.
To provide a proper setting for this compro
lienslve showing of the resources and products ot
the west the Coliseum better known locally as
the Ak-Sar-Ben "Den" will be transformed into a
great exposition hall. The arrangement of the
floor will be such that fully one-third more space
Is available than was occupied by the first Omaha
Land Show in the Auditorium. It is not even touch
ing on exaggeration to say that the scene of beauty
presented to land show visitors will be a surprise
end a delight from the front door to the far walls.
Entrance will be made into a court of honor
rwhlch has boen planned cn an elaborate scale, with
H serious regard for artistic effect. This court wl'.l
1)0 forty feet wide and 100 feet long. Brilliant
lluminatlons and decorations in keeping with tho
character of the exhibition will break on the view
the moment one sets foot Inside the door. At the
rnd of this glittering court of honor will be an
electric fountain twenty feet In diameter, fronting
the big stage constructed purposely for this show.
This stage will be reached by a large scenic stair
way, which will be a striking feature in Itself. On
all sides will be entrancing vistas filled with col
lections of exhibits from every section of tho west,
arranged by master hands.
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cm fruit country. Along this line southern and
southeastern Washington will be worthily repre
sented by a very extensive exhibit. Oregon Is like
wise a heavy producer of meaty and palate-tickling
prunes, and 3,000 feet of panorama has been se
cured for presentation at this show. This will give
a' close view of tho pruno orchards, tho pickers,
the drying process, packing, etc. Tho panorama
la the work of the artist, Schryer, who originated
the Johnstown flood panorama. It will show also
the hop fields and hop picking. The Willamette
Valley Commercial association and the Salem Board
of Trade combined to have this panorama made for
presentation In Omaha.
Cherries, Berries and Grains Galore.
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in their natural state and "treated" in various
ways, will be shown plenteously.
Bnrbank Sends a Great Collection.
tYnlt the Bitf Feature in Exhibit.
The fruits of the wonderful westland are to
liave the place ot honor, in a sense, at this second
land show held In Omaha. In almost illimitable
varieties fresh, dried, in glass, processed, evapo
rated and preserved every kind of fruit grown
from tho Missouri to the Pacific will be (rofusely
offered for Inspection and criticism.
Counted separately, fully 760,000 apple, will be
on exhibition In the various group displays. Many
thousands of oranges, lemons, tangerines, limes,
shaddocks, pomegranates, grapefruit, will also be
on view. Prunes, raisins, pawpaws, figs, bread
fruit, cocoanuts. sugarcane, peanuts, pine nuts and
pineapple all will be in the show booths in almost
endless array. General and particular Information
touching peculiarities of kind and cultivation will
be famished first hand to Inquirers by expert fruit
growers from the section, where the product Is
crown.
There will be arches of fruit, column, of fruit,
ftrlngs of fruit luscious specimens on plates, In
boxes, piled promiscuously; in pyramids and geo
metrical designs; fruit In the rough and polished
to bring out the skin tints that are as beautiful
US the rainbow, firsnes. t-orrlo?. nfflfg. arrtr
Burbank, the wizard of the garden, tho or
chard and the conservatory, will send at least 200
varieties of his specialties In the very best form
that G. H. Nlcholls can contrive and Mr. NIcholls
is conceded to bo the master workman in preparing
the wonderful Burbank products for popular in
spection. This one exhibit will be remarkable In
itself, and probably the greatest ever sent out
from Burbank'. Alameda and Santa Rosa experi
mental plots.
Over three-score varieties of the best apple,
in the world are to be sent to the Omaha show.
Ganos, Rome Beauties, Wagners, Newtowns, Yel
low Pippins, Pearmans, Bellflowers, Jonathans,
MclntOBh Reds, Arkansas Blacks, Western Ruesets,
Delicious these and other apples covering tho
wide range of the entire west will be on exhibition
at the Den. Those Interested can here learn more
about the growing and marketing of apples, the
care and selling of this tremendously valuable crop,
than they could from books In a year of reading.
They will learn, for instance, that tho Delicious is
peculiar to Washington alone; that California is
the best loved habitat of the Bellflower; that In
Montana the Mcintosh Red grow, best and most
plentifully; that the Rome Beauties, Jonathans,
Arkansas Blacks, Wagner, and Pippins develop to
their highest estate In southern Idaho and Utah;
that certain soils and climatic condition, give tho
most satisfactory results in particular varieties.
Out of the one-time wild and mysterious west
now the richest, most picturesque and promising
section of the union will come hundreds of car
loads of the finest fruit grown on earth. Yea, and
surprisingly excellent grain, grasses and vegetables.
As one man who has been canvassing the field for
a whole year put it, "This show will be a revelation
of western progress. California slone is to send
ua m ''il and ,prilpnf1'fl sji ihibli that to
see it will be as good as a trip to tho state itself."
This can readily bo believed when a rough
analysis is mado of the showing to bo made by
different sections of California. For instance, the
Chambers of Commcrco of Los Angeles and Ban
Diego will have the largest exhibit in tho show
in area and variety of material. - This exhibit will
comprise 85 per cent of the known products of
the world, from the famous sweet wines of the
valley vineyards to bread fruit; from tho modest
melon to the lofty cocoanut. Wheat and oats will
be in evidence, of a quality to beget pride, and in
the citrus fruit lino nothing will be lacking. Of
orange. 450 boxes are to be sent to Omaha. This
means about 7,000 Individual pieces. In the mak
ing of arches and In the decoration thereof thl.
one exhibit will use 15,000 pieces of citrus fruit,
and the resulting picture will bo a delight to be
hold. Alameda county, California, through the Oak
land Chamber of Commerce, besides the usual pre
sentment of good things, will make its new cotton
growing Industry a special feature of this show.
It has but recently become known that in the Im
perial valley cotton of tho finest Egyptian long
fiber can be grown. Specimen, of this cotton will
be shown in the boll, in fiber form and in the shape
of manufactured cloth from the first cotton mill,
erected on the Pacific coast.
Another Alameda county and Oakland exhibit
will comprise fruits and flower, from famous Cali
fornia nurseries, and this Is the first instance of
such a combined exhibit being sent cast.
lUihins and Prunes, Oil and Gems.
Thousands of pounds of raisin, will bo a fea
ture of a large exhibit from Fresno. Raisin bread
will be distributed free from this booth on Wednes
day, October 2 5. Fresno will also have a gorgeous
display of table and wine grape, and a complete
line ot the sweet wines for which the district is
famous. I lore sIko will bo seen white and blue
figs, fieah, dried aud preserved; and Inquisitive
ones will have a chance to ece Bnd study the very
useful little fly that is indlsponsablo In fig culture.
Nut. ot many varieties and diversified farm
products are not overlooked in tho Fresno exhibit.
Tulare county, California, will occupy a gen
erous space with an aggregation of prize citrus
fruits and n big line of small fruits, likewise sugar
beets, fresh and canned vegetables and a very fine
exhibit of grains.
Something distinctive as an element In west
ern prosperity 1. the oil industry, which Jn various
section, is developing rapidly and successfully. The
Coalinga district and Bakersfleld are Joining in an
exhibit of their grain product, and the many kinds
of oils that are produced and refined In that sec
tion of Collfornla. This display of oils is expected
to prove most interesting as a variation ot the
general layout.
San Diego will present a handsomo booth, full
of contrasts in product. The list will range from
potatoes to precious stones, from celery to high
class citrus specimens, small fruits and articles
made of seaweed, now being utilized commercially. '
Here will be shown case, full of American gems,
such a. turquoise, tourmalines, amcthyBta, moon
stones from Moonstone beach, rubles and other
Jeweler.' stones.
Utah anil Washington Coming Strong.
J. Edward Taylor, who is making for himself
a great reputation as a high-class judge and ex
hibitor ot western products, will have charge ot
the Utah exhibit at the Land Show. He promise,
to make It the most complete in makeup and the
most beautiful in arrangement that Utah has ever
stood sponsor for. Besides an extensive array of
apples and peaches from Utah orchards, Mr. Taylor
will make a special display of malting barley and
of oats. In this exhibit will also be shown gypsum,
salt, sulphur, copper and gold and silver-bearing
ores.
Today the prune Industry Is one of the great
est ainoug thoso appertaining to the immense weBN
Cherries will be made a strong ca-d in the ex
hibits from the Willamette valley, in Oregon, and'
from the Yakima valley, in Washington.' It was on
farm in the Willamette valley, near Albany, that
the wonderful Blng cherry originated, and tho
grower, of this delectable fruit will show it in every
form in which cherries are put un for consumn-
tlon. Those who know the plans made'asBert tho
cherry exhibits will be a source of delight to all
beholders.
The Yakima valley of Washington will send
to the show an exhibit ot berries the like of which
probably nover before was seen eutslde the section
where they are grown; and the Spokane valley I.
to make a dslplay of melons calculated to
capture prizes anywhere. Peaches of many high
class varieties are raised in the Yakima valley, and
this delicious fruit Is to be shown in bewildering
abundance from thl. and every other state where
they are grown.
Idaho will be at tho big fruit, grain and land
exposition with a display of apple, that will be a
llttlo exposition In Itself, from tho best orchards Jn
the state. And this progressive Btate will have
other profitable and attractive products of solid
merit with Its apples.
Colorado Is Not IjagKiug.
Colorado is to bo again extensively repre
sented. Tho Centennial stato's pride iu dry farm
ing is to have full exposition at the hands of ex
perts who know Intimately tho relative value, of
grains, grasses, root crops, melons, tree and bush
fruits. Mineral, and ore. In tho crude and refined
atate will not be overlooked, and, a. usual in every
thing of this kind that Colorado exhibitors under
take, nothing will ho left undone to inak th
Colorado exhibit. Individual and collective, hand
some and substantial.
South Dakota, Montana and Nevada will make
slrenuou. efforts to hold up their ends of the lino
a. great producing states. They have bought a
good deal of space and their exhibits are expected
to compare favorably with any made at the show,
especially as concern, the development of agricul
ture and horticulture.
Cream of the Year'. Products Secured.
Tho managers of the second Omaha Land
Show want to Impress on tho people of the west
that the date, .elected make It possible for indi
viduals and organizations to offer the very best of
thl. season's product for exhibition. Last year th
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