The Camden Chronicle

TRANS-MISSISSIPPI EXHIBITION

Will Be Opened at Omaha In June and Will Last Five Months.

The Trans-Mississippi and International exposition is to be opened at Omaha on the first of June next and will continue five months. The chief purpose, says the Youth's Companion, is to make a display of the agricultural, mineral and industrial resources of that great group of states situated west of the Mississippi, whose marvelous development during the last half-century has added so much to the wealth and prosperity of the nation. Mining, fruit-growing, dairying, stock-growing, the beet-sugar industry and agriculture in all its branches will be represented in separate buildings. Twenty-four states and territories, all but one of which lie west of the Mississippi, are represented in the management. Most of these states have commissions engaged in collecting exhibits, and some of them have made appropriations to erect buildings of their own.

One striking feature of the fair will link the present with the past. This will be the great Indian encampment, extending over many acres, in which, through the co-operation of the national government, it is hoped to bring together representatives of all the Indian tribes, with their weapons and utensils, and an exhibition of the work of Indian schools.

Other states than those immediately interested are arranging to make exhibits. Congress has made an appropriation, and the national government will have a building and extensive exhibits. An international character is given to the exposition by invitations to foreign governments, some of which have promised to be officially represented and to encourage their citizens to send exhibits.

Omaha is less than fifty years old. With its fourteen railroads, its stock-market, smelting works and factories, it is a good type of the vigorous and growing region of which it is a centre.

Such expositions as this serve a useful purpose not only in the exhibition of material products, but in enforcing that community of interest which makes the prosperity of one state or section the occasion of satisfaction to all. Interest in this display will not stop at the Mississippi river, for the older states rejoice in the rapid growth of the younger.