Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-13
Friday Morning, May 1s. 1881.
ATLANTA's COTTON EXHIBITION.

AVLANTA'S COTTON EXHIBITION.
 The outset of the proposed cotton exhibi- ton at Atlanta, Georg1a, in whose behalf MT. H. l. Kimball recently visited this city, is reported as successful beyond all expecta-
 ion. Much interest is taken in it at the North, but in the South the feeling is said to amount to positive enthusiasm It is, says one of the prominent movers in the enter prise, undoubtedly the most important step taken on behalf of the South since the war, and is so considered by the southern people, who look upon it as a manifestation of fra ternal feeling and expect to demonstrate to the North through it. that. whatever politi clans on either side of Mason < Dixon 8 line may say and do, the planters and business men of the South are ready and anxious to establish the most intimate business and so- cial relations with the other parts of coun-, try which they are fully ready to regard as one common Union.
 Applications for space are pouring in, and ov,r $20G,OO0 has been raised thus far towards paying expenses The exhibition is to be held in Og1ethorpe Park, and the main building was begun last Monday, 300 men being put at work upon it. This building will be 75O feet long by 20 wide, with tran sept in the center of the same width and 800 feet long, and will be devoted to exhibits of textile fabrics and the machinery for produc- ing them. Another building 25O feet long by 100 feet wide will be filled with machin- cry for preparing sugar, rice and similar products. A still larger one will contain ex- hibits of all varieties of tobacco, it's products, machinery and everything connected with it. A building on the plan of that which contain ed the Kansas and Colorado exhibits at the Centennial Exposition will be given up to comprehensive display of the agriculture, the minerals and the woods of the South. This display is to be made chiefly by the southern make it the fullest and most compre- hensive ever seen. All the territory south of the Ohio river will be ransacked for suitable objects to show there, and the result is ex- pected to be @ most important display of the surface and underground wealth of the South. There will also be a building for for eign exhibits, a large restaurant and ''press pavilion
 One very interesting exhibit will be cot ooAA ASAA oAO"AhS oAAS PioAis All ehAA ooohSOo oA growth. Thirty acres of the park have been laid out in half-acre lots, and given to as many different planters for competitive trial of skill in cultivation. Pains have been taken to make this complete display of ev- cry variety of cotton in the world. Seed has been imported from Africa, India and other parts of the world sometimes at great ex- pense, single half-pound of a certain rare variety having cost $2Oo in gold. This plan tation has been already seeded, and is now being cultivated under the general direction of Mark Hardin, well known representative Southern planter Material for another in- teresting display is being gathered by MT. Edward Atkinson, who has charge of the for eign exhibit of fabrics and flores, and is col lecting specimens of every variety of cotton goods, flores, and primitive machinery for treating them. He is ransacking every DOT ton of the world to make his gathering con- plete. full display of agricultural imple- ments will also be made.
 If this enterprise is carried out as is now contemplated it will be of great benefit to the South, and it's planners and managers will deserve the gratitude of the people of that section.