The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-22
THE TEXAS EXHIBITION.
ITS MAGNITUDE AND VARIETY
In the Worlds Industrial and Cotton Cen.
tennial Exposition--An Official Re-
port from State Commits
sioDer John Il. Elliott,

iency John Ireland, Governor of Texas:
SIR-The eighteenthlegislature, which
convened last January, passed a law
providing "for the appointment OF one
commissioner to the Worlds Industrial
and Cotton Centennial exposition and
eleven assistant commissioners, one
from each congressional district, and
also twenty or more honorary commits
sioners." The law further provides that
"said commissioner should at once
enter upon the discharge of his duty,
which shall be to collect specimens of
all the products of the state, natural.
artificial, manufactured, agricultural
ana mechanical, and also to collect data
pertaining to the several industries of
Iexas, and to effect the best possible ar
rangements with railroad and other
transportation companies for the con-
veyance OF same to said exposition and
pack, ana to arrange for ample
space and grounds for the
texas exhibit, and at the explr-
ation thereof to have returned to the
city OF Austin all articles of whatever
nature donated to or purchased by the
STATE, ana TO make tull and detailed
report to the governor of the services Inv
him performed"
In conformity with these REQUIRE
ments now beg to submit nv report
OF the work thus far done. Upon re.
celpt OF my commission on the 9TH of
Iast May, entered vigorously the field
with liked resolve to achieve success
ior Iexas II continuous effort in all the
proper and varied channels could do il.
appreciated fully the paramount i'm
portance of the great, the uneoualled
opportunity to our state in her exhibit
before the assembled world, and from
winch she had been soliciting capital
ana immigration, while / keenly felt
Inc ihadeouacy of the appropriation for
the que presentation Of our enormous
ana attractive possessions, resources
and possibilities. Other states had bean
happy habltues at previous expositions
and would come with an acenmnjatad
1und OF offerings collected through the
STATE bureaus, and with their rich ex.
periences, and assisted by individual ex-
nlbitors while Texa; had to start with not
one OF these advantages, her people
MADE to feel for the first time the yatue
Oh the rare advertisement, their ambi-
uon aroused their energies enlisted in
What might seem to many as only re-
mute or indirect benefits. The time, too.
was lhauspic!ous,as the season has been
10 as one OF remarkable drouth with its
attendant evil of distressingly short
crops; there was a financial panic and
commercial depression prevailing that
discouraged whole communities: be-
side, the public mind was absorbed
with the great national and
staee politics and positions
~ issue. 1t was, therefore, no easy
matter to excite the desired interest and
mus secure contributions for the expo-
sltlon: Undiscouraged, l labored dav
ana night in all the cities and towns
mat time and transportation facilities
enabled me to reach, and by addresses.
ietters, circulars,e tc. / concluded under
Al these circumstances that theorgani-
1atlon Oh exposition societies wasthe most
expedient agency of obtaining required
results, and accordingly 1 urged the
pan Wnlcn l can now say worked to
such superior success.
EXPOSITION SOCIETIES,
In June last appointed Mrs. @. NJ
Winkler, OF Corsicana, to the duty of or.
Sanlzlng ladies' associations we'll
showing IL is most generally through
me zeal and patriotism of the fair sex
.hat all such enterprises are advanced
70 .ne highest possible point, and mr.
posing, too, that the world should he
nauo 90 obsorveJ through their nanuI-
WORK, that Tex S, besides being para
Glse Oh plenty for the poor man and the
tich man, was at the same time the
. n1ie Oh domestic comfort, skilled in
teiilgence and educated elegance. How
ably Mrs. Winkler acted her role the
press has frequently announced. and
the "wo mans work" on the Texas
space, now presided over by Mrs. Ter
rel ana Mrs. Foster, of Houston. at
tests, while the wonder and admiration
NJ our display therein by citizens from
All the states and the old countries ~
the highest encomium upon those Tex-
anwomen who have thus told 10 The
continents that Texas OF TODAY IL the
unsurpassed abode of peace and pros
perry, where Is best recognized the law
OF the liberty of all, limited by the lib
THE TIMER AND GRASS EXHIBIT.
ANXIOUS Tor the more material pro-
9ucts DISPLAY, l appointed DIR. j. +,
Joor, oil Houston, to collect the various
woods and grasses of the state. and 70
TINS end he has been interchangeable
s,nce last July, ably aided by j. +.
riggs, esq of Marshall. Under their
supervision we now display some l2s
Nsrletles OF timber, which, so far as
can learn, IL the largest bona. fide list
ever exhibited by state at any of these
exposltions. AS consequence of this
EXHIBIT, two wealthy capitalists-one
from Eng land and one from Michigan
Viii shortly visit the walnut region of
washington and neighboring counties.
WIN the view of there establishing a
furniture factory. OF grasses we have
ssAceeuiilB 800 varieties. To best
oisplay THESE, i Crdered "A number nj
frames "a by 90 inches, protected by
glass fronts, wherein the same win lie
mounted and attractively hung ON
eight screens 10 by IL feet In size. I can
iearh OF no collection of grasses either
mere, at Atlanta, or at Philadelphia ina,
equals this. va
THE MINERAL FNPIBIT.
Inc mineral exhibit is excellent. The
granite 1.-THE peer of the New England
variety III composition and in crushinp
streneth, and possessing in addition,
nornulende, making 1t, when polished,
susceptible OF handsomer appearance,
sandstones, limestones, and other bnild,
,ng stones are exhibited, both in the
rough and the dressed conditions. These
are mainly from Burnet, San saba
aud Travis counties. Northwestern
IeNss sends us coal, gypsum
copper, lead, etc., forwarded by prof
w. 4. Cummings, OF Dallas; while from
El Paso magnificent display of lii,
more precious stones is made by Mr.
Jay. q. Kelley. From eastern lex.
we have iron, kaolln, etc, although tn,
latter article from Robertson and Lime
stone counties Is particularly noticeable
lump of kaolin from the last name,
county has much Interested New Jer
sey gentleman from that high Parnas
sus OF pottery, whose now fine porcelain
rivals the cele brated "Egg-shefl" of tn
Chinese In delicacy and lightnoss, an,
whose numerous factories make tina
states capital the Staffordshire q
America. He states that If this kaoliI
Is equal In purity TO ANYTHING 10 b
found there, and If in sufficient quan
tity, he will probably establish a factor
near the beds.
appointed DIR. A. Gregg, OF San Sabs
IN charge OF the mineral and soils dc
eartment who Is ably assisted by Dl
VIM. De Ryoe, of Corpus Christi. Thei
department is arranged with such ad
nirasle skill and taste that II Is niue
visited daily by both sexes.
THn AGRICULTURAL AND PoMoLoaIcA