Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-11-26
THE GREAT SOUTHERN EX-
POSITION.
MISSISSIPPI

MISSISSIPPI
owes her exhibit chiefly to the rail-
roads. Spasmodic efforts were made
by individuals to present large dis
play, and while they were partially
successful, knowing how much bet
ter the state could have done, one does
not feel like praising the result. A
pretty reception room, in pagoda
form, consists of roof which is COM
pletely hidden by long gray moss,
resting upon eight pillars, one each
of cotton, corr, coal, iron ore, sorg-
hum, flax, millet and tobacco. The |
floor has a bright carpet and easy
chairs to tempt the visitor to q long
rest. The products along the lines
Of failroadare fairly wellrepresented.
From Corinth, Miss, there is
very good display of silk worms and
their products and the persons en-
gagged in silk culture at that place de-
serve commendation, for, without
making very much fuss about it,
they are building up what ought
sometime to become, in America,
thriving industry. It receives a good
many stabs from persons who launch
into it without any knowledge of its
details, and with little patience to
give to it the careful, persistent at
tention necessary to bring success,
they fail; lose the money invested,
and denounce the entire business.
And it is surprising how much fur
ther the howls are heard than the sto-
ry of the faithful, painstaking ones
who do succeed.
ALABAMA
is one of the states which left the
! labor of preparing an exhibit to the
railroads, and the Louisville &
Nashville. which runs the entire
length of the state, and has an arm
reaching out both east and west, has
! made a very good display of the
products of the state. They are so
busy blooming down about Bir-
mingham, the center Of the great
mineral district, that they couldn't
stop to attend to outside matters.
1t has earned the name "Magic City,"
for from a cabin or two a few years
ago it has grown to thirteen thousand
inhabitants. 1t Is, too, a permanent,
and will be progressive growth, for
the supply of iron ore at hand will
out-last the fortunes of many man
who is accommodating wealth so rapid
ly he thinks the generations who fol-
low after him will never be able to
spend it.
Alabama has awoke from her dulce
par niente, and posterity almost
phenomenal has dawned but of all
this another time She didn't adver-
tise herself. and am not going to do
it for her.
VIRGINIA
ought to be ashamed of herself.
With resources which easily make
her one of the leading of the southern
states, and capable of equaling any
of them in her display, che sat calm
ly down and left the labor the Chesa-
peake & Ohio railroad. Virginlans
howl for capital and emigration to
come to their aid in developing the
resources of their state; they wonder
why the tide drifts to the west and to
the great southwest; they grieve
that so many of their own young men
of enterprise go out to seek their for
, tunes and then, when the opportuni-
ty is presented for them to eXten-
sively advertise their resources at a
very trifing expense, they sit calmly
down, put their hands in their pock-
cts, and declare that if the thing is
done the railroads will have to do it,
"aoire too pore Then they shift
their quid of tobacco to the other
cheek and possess their souls in pa
tience, assumed that they have done
their duty. Nearly all the world
ever hears about the state comes
through. the efforts of the railroad
managers. Except for them. one
who never visits them might suppose
, it a portion of country permitted to
exist simply to give politicians place
! to squabble Overland so deeply
buried in politics are the other rail
road magnates that the chesapeake
& Ohio bears alone the burden of
, representing the "Mother of Presi-
dents at the Great Southern Expo
sition. The space allotted the state
is fairly well filled, and nicely ar
, ranged-a resting place, handsomely
carpeted, and supplied with comfort
able chairs. in which the visitor may
look over the state papers and adj
mire the photographs of the grand
scenery along the line of the road.
Unless it be the new narrow-gauge
road opened between Colorado and
Utah no railroad in this country
passes through scenery surprising
that on the G.. & O.-and form my
opinion from personal observation.
The great, towering mountains are
full of iron and Goals and the miner
al springs along the route are so
abundant and in such variety all the
diseases which flesh is hair to can
find remedy. Virginia possesses
/ all the elements of abundant wealth
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