Ketchum daily keystone. (Ketchum, Idaho) 1884-1884, 1884-09-27
The New Orleans Exposition.


partitions being made to make u display
u the natural resources and produce
tions OF California md the Northwest at
the New Orleans worlds fnir, but we
have hardly found time hitherto tn give
Acomprchchsiye sketch III the Expos
ton itself. its facilities md prospects.
As this is tho fur season, aud our read
er's minds will naturally turn to inior-
nation Of this kind, we deem it timely
to sketch the greut coming event In
New Orleans, our new ueighbor on the
southeast. The Exposition will open in
December and continue until May fol-
towing:
The first record OF cotton an indus
trial product for cxportin this country
lathe rcount of the shipment OF six
bugs tabont one bale) from the port OF
Charleston, s. c., in 1884, to England.
hi one century the export has increased
four million fold and the production to
seven million bales, and to value as an
export in excess Of any known product.
The National Cotton Planters Associn-
ton, at It's annual meeting in October,
1852, by resolution, suggested the pro-
priety and policy of celebrating by IL
special cotton exposition the centen-
nial OF that now leading and greatest
product Of southern industry. The
outcome OF that resolution is the Worlds
Industrial and Cotton Centennial Expo
sition. The publicity and agitation RI
the project developed such widespread
and spontaneous interest, and met with
such u popular and enthusiastic re-
sponsc. that its scope was Immediately
enlarged and made to cover all products
and subjects capable OF being brought
within the pnrview Of complete, com.
prt hensive aud exhaustive exposition.
by the foresight and sagacity OF its pro-
jectors, through IN net of Congress it
was given an international character,
and virtually placed under the auspices
Of the general government; Uuder this
act the Board of Management and com.
missioners for all the different States
and Territories were appointed by the
President, and official invitations were
extended to the governments and PEG.
ple of nll the countries aud nations in
tho world to be represented and parti.
cipate in the exposition.
The objects Of the exposition, as can
easily be seen, have become manifold.
Primarily, to Illustrate the wonderful
development in production, manufnc-
lures, uses aud consumption of that
greatest OF southern industrial pro-
duets, cotton, its scope was enlarged to
cover all other products Of the soil and
mine, thus to disseminate among the
people OF all sections and nations
throughout the world n knowledge OF
the resources, products and industrial
end manufacturing possibilities of the
southern and southwestern States.
Then, by embodying in its projects, not
only the productsof the soil and mines OF
this country but OF all the countries OF
the earth, not the illimitable issues OF
nature but tho myriad handiwork Of
mans ingenuity and skill, to make it
the exposition OF the age. Secondarily,
by this grand interchange OF cxpcrien-
COS, this comparison OF products, this
generous rivalry Of manufactures, to
pave the way to the establishment of in
innate trade relations with vast Terrific
rtes, no that the Crescent City, CON-
handing the gateway TO the grandest
a,stem Of internal water transportation
ON earth, aud possessing u harbor af-
lording secure anchorage aud n,fe nc.
cess TO the merchant ma. inc OF the
world, can be the medium for tue ex.
change Of tho products and manufnc.
lures of tho great West, North and
Aouth, for the rich ores, choice fruit