Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1885-04-04

supposed" remarked Dan Scott last
week duringa friendly call at the Journ
al sanctum, TO taffy a people, so long at
least as ones sojourn Is protracted
among them; but as soon as am be-
yond their influence it is utterly im
possible for me to suppress the plain,
unvarnished truth"
"Why, have you been prevaricating
about the people of New Orleans ?" we
ventured TO ask.
"No," he continued, "but I've been
telling only half the truth. The whole
truth is, the success Of the Worlds ex-
pOsitiod at New Orleans is attributable
to the people Of the northern states and
territories. 1t was their energy, enter
prise and liberal expenditure Of money
that enabled the management of the
exposition to make show; and now
the southeners are taking on airs over
the northern mud sills.'"
"What are the real condition of
affairsT
TO illustrate the condition Of things
,lowi { ere I'll reh sc ole incident
aud it will serve for hundreds OF others
If similar gally nature. During the
time the carpenters we're engaged in
erecting quarters for the live stock e.
hibit delegation Of southern breeders
held conference with the exposition
management and demanded separate
quarters for the live stock of the south.
They gave DIS q reason for this .hat they
didn't propose to mix their gilt-edgesl
stock with the deceased cattle Of the
north. Their demands were acceeded
to and commodious quarters provided
for their fine haired lhoroughbreds (?).
In due time the deceased cattle from
the north,' in the shape of large herds
Of Norman and Ciyesdale horses the
finest to bc found in America and large
bands from other valuable strains of
northern eqnines. aggregatihg in value
many thousands Of dollars, arrived and
were placed ON exhibition. Some time
afterwards racked was heard in the
southern live stock quarters, and upon
investigation a couple Of Indifferent
short horns were discovered in the large
building provided for the glt-edye stock
for the sunny south. A week later an
"f. colored, scrawny Jersey Was added
To this gilt edge live stock exhibit This
inpour Of live stock from the southern
states continued until our departure,
when an inventory or the southern live
stock quarters showed nine alleged
ort-horns, three little Jerseys, half
dozen mongrels and one horse Of no
established pedigree. The diseased
stock from the northern states were,
from the nature of Things, awarded
premiums to the extent Of $4,000. Yet
: he live stock breeders Of the south had
to have exclusive accommodations"
'In your Judgment, what do you think
will be the result Of the exposition.
will it materially benefit the south 2"
"It will benefit New Orleans Temporal
rily, hut will ultimately prove detri.
mentral to even that decaying metrop
oils. This may, perhaps, seem incon-
sistent, but I've got reasons for my be-
lief Nearly or quite 100000 northern
people have already visited the great
A large majority Of this
immense army Of intelligent. discrimin-
a,ing excursionists, did not 20 there SO
much to see the exposition as to see the
south. Not few made the trip with a
view Of locating in that land Of the
myrtle aud the vine, but returned home
absolutely satisfied with the north.
Those whom met from northwestern
Iowa and Dakota declared that this
region is garden of Eden in compari-
son with the best section they had en-
countered south of Mason and Dixon's
line. This fact will work injury to the
south, because four out of every FIVE of
them, who had been picturing that
region Of soft winds and sunshine as
land in which they could escape the
zero breezes and billiards. Of the north
and find pleasures and contentment,
will not let an opportunity escape to
disabuse the minds Of their friends and
the moving public generally Of this er-
roneous idea. Hence, the injury the
exposition will do the south by staying
y large influx of immigration she would
otherwise have enjoyed"
us the south making any material
progress"
II was unable to discover any along
my route, though the exhibits ut the ex.
position show that something 10 being
accomplished in the way Of developing
her mineral resources. The towns in
Louisiana and Mississippi have grown
but little, II any, during tho past twenty