The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-08-26

of your railroad lines, asking them to
cooperate with the public officers in
getting up a collection for Louisiana.
Tho time is most propitious for such
an exhibition. Never before were so
many capitalists looking to the South
for profitable investment, and if all the
Southern States will cooperate SO as to
make grand exhibition, tho results
will be startling to ourselves and to
tho whole country.
Very respectfully,
! J. i. KILLEBtEW,
Chief Dept. Of Minerals and Woods.
| Commissioner Harris will have the
list completed in n day or two, when
the names Of those composing the
committee to lool, after the interests of
Louisiana at the exposition will be
published.
This committee will represent Louisi-
ana in all the several departments
wherein products, minerals, woods,
etc, may appear.
The management desires that the OK
hibits of minerals and woods, especially
such rs have great economic value,
and which oflor field for the profit
able investment Of capital, should be
large and attractive, and fairly represent
the resources of the country in the pro-
ducts of mines and forests.
In tho suggest i've synopsis of the min
crai exhibits Which may be secured
from each State, Louisiana is rcferrcd
to as having deposits Of sulphur, rock
salt, Ignite, iron, OGRE and gypsum.
Woods FOR exhibition may consist of
every kind for use, ornament or posses
ing peculiar properties, rough, dressed,
vanished, in sections of logs, in plank
slaves, shingles, laths, spokcs, hubs,
feliocs, shocks, masts, knees, railway
ties, bent work timbcrs prepared by
;aturation or otherwise to resist decay
or any other form which may suit the
| fancy or the convenience of tho OK
hibitOr.
Railroad companies, owners of saw
mills, coptratora, capenters, cabinet
makers, wagon and carriage nlanufac-
tureIa, will find it TO their interest to
make this exhibit an attractive one.
The present inquiry for timber and the
growing demand for ali useful woods
makes this a most favorable opportunity
for such exhibits. The Southern States,
especially, hold large reserves Of tim
bcrcd lands, which Will be :, source OF
immense wealth in tho near future if
competition is aroused through 4 grand
display at the Exposition.
| The management asks the hearty CO.
| ofSA.SAacl .sAA "NIkcAV VI VciAcIS
and workers i'll wood, as; we'll as of all
railroad companies, in max in. such 4
collection rs will fairly represent the
| timber capabilities ana Resources of
this country.
| Liberal premiums will be awarded
| for tho most complete exhibits in this
department, ana free transportation
given the same. No entry fees for OK
hibits in this department will be re-
quircd.-N. a. pic,ynntc.
In connection with tho above and on
the same subject we publish tho follow.
ing extract from a late letter in the
New Orleans Times with regard to the
representation which Louisiana is to
make i'll this great exposition at
Atlanta:
| Now comes the question what can
Louisiana do to share in the benefits
| certain to follow this International OK
position?
10 answer that question TO my own
satisfaction I have been consulting the
reports Of the United States commits
sioncr of agricuiturcs for series OF
years and am surprised ut the natural
wealth of my State as shown by those
statistics. The area and value oftimbe,
lands, rs set forth in one report, is
simply astonishing. Cypress, live oak,
sweet gum, hickory, ash, pine, hack
berry, magnolia, sweet bay, black
walnut and several varieties of oak
cover hundreds of thousands of acres
In Avoycllcs alone there arc 800,
, acres of oak forests, 100000 in cypress
so 900 in Magnolia, and rs many more
in hickory. This in a single parish
and there are many others just Is
heavily wooded. But, says some cynic
there's no market for il and no way o
getting it out. No, and there never
will be until tho great forest wealth o
our State is brought to tho worlds
attention. Hut let it be set forth in due
form ut this international fair, Will
specimens of the woods and maps
showing the immense area they occupy
, and capitalists will not fail to find
/ way OF getting that timber to market
, ! need not tell Your readers of the sal
, beds of Petit Ansc, the sulphur or Cal
c:rSieu parish, and of the marls IN,
, iinc$tonrs distributed so general,
through the State. We all know they
are the there, but Why not let tn,
world see them? England and thu
United States furnish u market fo
tetili%er:i that II never tver$tntked, ant