Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-07
THE S0UTH'S GREAT FAIR.
THE EXPOSITION'S BEST WEEK
YET.
The Coming Preliminary Trial of
Gins and Cleaners-The New Eng
land Manufacturers on the Display
"A Strong and Patriotic PIea for
the Success OfIhe Vast Enterprise.

ATLANTA, November 6.-Last week was
the best the Exposition has had. The
number Of visitors increased 40 per cent.
This week cheap rates go into effect on all
the Southern lines. A preliminary trial of
cotton gins and cleaners will be had on
Wednesday. The cotton for this test
has been selected from a single field.
Each competitor will be given hundred
pounds. The time will be taken and the
fibre and the seeds weighed. After ginning,
each lot of lint will be packed separately,
and all the parcels will be sent to Boston
for inspection at a meeting of the New
England Cotton Manufacturers Association
on November 30th. The actual competition
Of gins and cleaners for the awards will oc-
cur In December, when the National Cotton
Planters Association will be in session.
Another large delegation Of splnners will
attend this competition, which is expected
to settle ccnclusively several questions Of
vital importance to the future of cotton
culture.
The following statement is furnished the
press by Messrs. Atkinson and Garseed in
behalf of the National Cotton Manufactur-
ers' Association
First. The committee of the New England
cotton manufacturers and their friends have
separated, most of them going home. They
concur In this opinion that the meeting OF
the National Cotton Planters Association to
be held December 9th, from three to six
hundred in numbers, should be met by
an equal number Of manufacturers
from the North. They affirm that, IL this
can be brought about, it alone will fully
Justify the Cotton Exposition. They have
found that the tools and machines for
planting and preparing cotton for spinners
are of utmost interest and importance to
both grower and spinner.
They have found an exhibition of cotton
machinery such as has never before been
brought together in this country or else
where. They have found in the annex
buildings evidences of the natural re-
sources of the Southern section in sgri-
culture, in commerce, in minerals and in
timber, which could not be eQualled from
any other equal area of the earth's
surface, aud in the uses to which these re-
sources will shortly be applied. They find
the promise Of vastly greater numoer Of
customers for their own mills than they eX-
pect to find competitors in Southern mills.
They have met the Southern manufacturers
with hearty good will and earnest wishes
for their success.
They find reason to send back from the
North as soon as they return their master
mechanics and Overseers to study the sub
Jet as presented here. They concur unani-
mOusly in the judgment that there is greater
promise of improvement In many direc-
tiors, bus especially in the handling
OF cotton, which would emanate
from this exhibition, than from
any one ever held before. They earnestly
hope that crowds from the North will meet
crowds from the South, that the benefcent
influence of this meeting may extend be-
yOnd material interests and work a common
good for our common country.