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Show The exposition last December, when Michael Horan of Wcnatchcc, Wash., carried off the chief honors with a mixed car of fruit, cost $85, 000. One hundred and ten thousand 'rtersonB attended. ""'Fourty thousand dollars in cash and premiums of five and ten acre tracts of land was raised rais-ed among business men in Spokane. There was a deficit of $3,500, which was promptly met by 100 men subscribing sub-scribing $35 each. The show is not run for profit, but for the purpose of popularizing the apple as a nat- ional fruit. It is designed to help M the growers in New England, east- M cm, middle, western and southern fl states where apple growing is an fl industry, as much as the orchardists fl in the Northwestern arrd Pacifit fl |