The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-01-05
INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION.
Commissioner McWhirter Writes u
Stirring Letter to the County
Judges.

Capt. McWhirter, Commissioner
Of Agriculture, has addressed the ful>
lowing letter to the Judges Of the
County Courts in the State, with
view of stirring them up to the im>
portance of advertising the products
aud resources of the State in the
Great International Exposition at New
Orleans next year.
To the lion. Judge Of County Court:
sHvrLLE. Dec. %, 1S83.-Im-
PEELED by sense of the obligations rest
ing upon the State of Tennessee to
widen her capacity for the develOp>
ment of her almost illimitable re
sources of field, forest, mine, water
power and manufacture, feel it my
duty to address you, as your Commits
sioner, the object of which is to sug-
gest the Importance of prompt and
positive enactment being made by the
Honorable County Court, over which
you have the honor to preside, at its
quarterly term, the first Monday in
January, 1884, for the purpose of
creating county fund, which will
enable your county to he fully repre-.
sented bv specimens Of its resources
in the Worlds Industrial National
and International and Cotton Centen-
NAL Exposition, to be held in the city
of New Orleans, La. commencing
Dec. /, 1884, and to continue until
May /, 1885.
The management of the Exposition
has at our suggestion set apart 1900
squaIe feet Of floor space and 2,4OO
feet of wall space for the State OF
Tennessee, which can be used free OF
charge, and it only remains for you,
the representative of the people OF
your good county, whether or not you
will elect TO utilize the same. You
are aware that our State Legislature
has made no appropriation for this
purpose whatever, 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 honors
BILE body adjourn without taking some
active steps toward furtherIng this
grand advertisement of your wealth
Will you permit this golden opportu
uity to pass unimproved If placing
before the eyes of the world the living
evidence of your skill, your agricul'
tnral, forest aud mineral resources
, II would be most unfortunate for you
to so decide. An appropriation O
two hundred and fifty dollars average
from each county in the state, proper
ly expended. would insure for tina
county u splendid display of its re
sources. Upon this sum Haywood
county, of West Tennessee, made her
self famous ~ the Southern Exposi
ton, Louisville. KY, and has, there
by, turned the tidA Of immigration
not only to her own borders, but T.
the whole of West Tennessee. ]
would be an opprobrium upon on
State if it failed to avail itself of thi
the grandest University of ohjec
teaching ever offered to the South
Think Of it An exposition building
EN- nracing within its walls more thai
100000 square feet of floor space
open to the world-and that near GU
doors, aud in the great metropolis u
, own dear Southland.
Please nring this most importan
matter to the notice of your honora
ME County Court in such manner a
will induce it to make the necessar
appropriation for carrying out the OF
jects intended, aud also have them t
appoint one of your most active, pro
gressive and competent citizens to gu
perintend the expenditure in cooper
3 alton with this bureau and report re
I suits.
With the compliments of the set
son, l am, with great respect, you
friend, truly, A, j, McWHIRTER,