The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-01-17
THE PARIS ExrUsiTi0N.
AID Urgent Appeal froa, Senator BuiIsr
tlaRt South Carolina send Specimens and
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The following letter from Sc "tor Bat
ler TO the Hon. B. f. Crayto' resident
of the State Agricultural ane .1echani-
cal Society, needs no explanat,vn:
u. S. SENATE CHAMBER,
WASHINGTON, December ~, 1877.
Hon. b. f. Cfdyton, President State Ag-
rtculturdt and Mechanical Society, An-
derson, S. c.:
DEAR SIR--It is very important to
our people that the resources of South
Carolina be lully represented at the ap-
preaching Paris Exposition, and if you
concur in this opinion, suggest that
you viii take such steps at an early day
as will secure for exhibition average
specimens of every department from the
s.oatest to the smallest. For instance.
A small bale Of our low country moss,
witt. brief description of the manner
OF its use in making horse cellars, mat
tresses, &c; npecimens of our phosphate
and kaoiin deposits; different kinds Of
wood for building, manufacture of yehi-
Giles, &c.; iron, copper, gold and magne-
sia different kinds of pottery clay, with
brief description Of the manner of its
manufacture in vessels, with sample of
the vesse.; specimens of our soap-stone
deposits, clay for making brick, and q
specimen brick; granite and whet-rock !;
bale or bales of our cotton; bale or bales
of our different kinds of grasses; samples
of our rice, and every variety Of our ce-
reals and products which are not perish
able; peanuts, cotton seed, with the oil
made from them, Yith description of the
mode OF expressing the oil; specimens
our flora and funa; specimens of our hor-
ticultural products, fruits, &C., specimens
Of our manufactured goods of every kind
and description.
In fact, we should have on exhibition
specimens and samples of everything in
the State which will inform the world of
ouf resources. If drawings could be
made without too much expense the
water power ON our streams, and of our
manufacturing establishments, with the
location, latitude, climate, accessibility
by railroad or water transportation. L
would be very desirable.
Gov. McCOrmac, the American Com
missioner, has not promulgated his rules
ahc regulations for the guidance and
government of exhibitors, but he will do
ooJ auo yOu Cuu NC SOteGutu accordingly.
They will be published, have no doubt,
in our papers, and you can determine
what is best to be done in that regard
after seeing them.
1t might be desirable to ask the Legis-
lature to make moderate appropriation
to aid our people in preparing and for
warding articles for exhibition, and
know of no better or more appropriate
medium of expending such an appropri-
alton than yourself end Capt. James N.
Lipscomb, Master of the State Grange.
We have in South Carolina resources
unsurpassed by any State in the Union,
and they are, as it were, sealed book,
unopened and unknown to the outside
world. We must break the envelope sud
let others read what we have of interest,
and through you aud your society, and
its various MISUNDERSTANDING socie-
ties, the State Grange and its dependen-
cies-the book must be opened.
am sure that you will do n the JUS
tice to believe that in whatever contrib
utes to the advancement and welfare of
South Carolina, you may rely confidently
upon my cordial supper; and co-opera-
ton, and that you win pardon the liberty
| have taken in making the foregoing
suggestions. Very truly yours,
NJ. G.. BUTLER.