rieties and ample quantities (both in Horticultural Hall and
in our State building) throughout the season, consuming four
carloads of this material received by freight, and 150 boxes
miscellaneous fruits in season expressed. Awards--Grand prize,
for "collective exhibit of fruits." Gold medals, Yakima County,
Chelan County, W.L. Wright, Geo. H. Farwell; silver medals,
Chelan County Horticulture Association, Chelan County Fair
Association, Clarkston Fruit Growers' Association, Orondo Fruit
Farm, Yakima Horticulture Association, Washington Irrigation
Company (Sunnyside), Wrightville Farm, to 38 individual
exhibitors; bronze medals, to 27 individual exhibitors.
Forestry: A comprehensive collection of commercial woods, large
dimensions, rough, and a good variety of finish shown in our
various booths, counters, tables, etc.; also, a sample
collection of all our native woods, rough and finished,
exceeding in quantity (exclusive of the exhibit features of our
State building) the exhibit shown by any State.
This exhibit was entered as "collection of commercial woods of
best quality and largest dimensions; and the greatest
educational exhibit of forestry shown at the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition, in that it teaches the youth and uninformed adult
more of the characteristics and extent of the wonderful forests
of the Northwest, and conveys to the residents of the treeless
areas of the North-Central States a better knowledge of the
quality and duration of their future lumber supply than does any
other forestry exhibit shown on the occasion."
Awarded grand prize on "commercial woods." Collaborators--H.
McCormick Lumber Company, the Larson Lumber Company, Grays
Harbor Commercial Company, Pat McCoy Logging Company, St. Paul
and Tacoma Lumber Company, Clarke-Nickerson Lumber Company, the
Northwestern Lumber Company, the Northwestern Woodenware
Company, Panel and Folding Box Company (Hoquiam), E.K. Lambert
(Elma), and the American Portable House Company.
Agriculture: In this department our space in Agriculture Hall
and the lower floor of our State building was crowded with an
exhibit of all cereals in straw and seed, forage grasses,
vegetables, hops, wool, dairy products, etc.
Awarded grand prize on "collection of cereals, forage grasses,
and miscellaneous vegetables;" grand p
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