The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-01-03
THEwORLD's EXPOSITION
Commissioner McWhirter's
Letter to the Tennessee
County Courts

American, Sunday.
Commissioner McWhirter, of the I
Bureau of agriculture, sent the fol- |
lowing letter, yesterday, to the
judge of each county in the state.
The object in view is to raise funds
for the production of the best spec
linens of Tennessee's resources, to
be sent to the Exposition at New
Orleans, which will begin on the
1st of December next. Farmers
will be furnished with rare seeds,
and will be given every opportunity
to aid this endeavor. Capt. Nc
Whittier goes to Washington next
week to procure the seeds, etc.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Dec. 29.-TO
the honorable the Judge Of the
county court-Sir: Impelled by a
sense of the obligations resting up
on the state of Tennessee to widen
her capacity for the development of
her almost illimitable resources of
field, forest, mine, water power and
manufacture, feel it my duty to
address you as your commissioner,
the object of which is to suggest
the importance of prompt and pos
tive enactments being made by the
honorable county court over which
you have the honor to preside, at
its quarterly term, LIST Monday in
January, 1884, for the purpose of
Screating a county fund, to ena-
bic your county to be fully repre-
sented by specimens of its resour-
ces, in the Worlds Industrial
National and International and Cot
ton Centennial Exposition, to be
held in the city of New Orleans, La,
commencing Dec. 1, 1884, and to
continue until May l, 1885.
The management of the EXPOSE
ton has at our suggestion set
apart 1900 square feet of floor
space and 2,400 square feet Of wall
space for the state of Tennessee,
which can be used free of charge,
and 1t only remains for you, the
representatives of the people ofyour
good country, whether or not you
will elect to utilize the same. You
are aware that our state Legislature
has not made any appropriation
whatever for this purpose, and in
fact, it will not convene before the
first Monday in January, 1885,
which precludes the possibility of
timely aid from that source.
/ The question is, will your honor
able body adjourn without tax
ing some active steps toward
furthering this grand investment of
your wealth; will yon permit this
golden opportunity TO pass unim-
proved of placing before the eyes of
the world the living evidences of
your skill, your agricultural, forest
and mineral resources? 1t would
be most unfortunate for you so to
decide. An appropriation Of $3.50
average from each county in the
state, property expended, would in
sure for that county a splendid
display OF al its resources. Upon
this sum, Haywood county, in West
Tennessee, made herself famous at
the Southern Exposition at Louis
vile, KY, and has thereby turned
the tide of immigration not only to
her own borders, but to the whole
of West Tennessee.
4 1t would be an opprobtum upon
our state if it failed to avail itself of
this, the grandest university of OBJ
Iject teaching" ever offered to the
south. Think of it! An exposi-
tion building embracing within its
walls more than 100000 square
feet of floor space, open to the
world, and that too very near our
doors, and in the great metropolis
of our own dear southland!
Please bring this most important
matter to the notice of your honor
able county court in such manner
as will induce it to make the neces-
sary appropriation for carrying out
the objects intended, and also have
them to appoint one of your most
active, progressive and competent
citizens to superintend the expen-
diture in cooperating with this
Bureau, and report the result.
With the compliments of the sea
sen, l am, with great respect, your
friend truly,
| A. j. MCWHiRTER, Com.
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