Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-10
THE EXPOSITION.
Those Who Wish to See All the Show
Should Wait a Month Longer
Lower Rates Promised.
Texas Has More Space Than ANY Other
State, But Her Vast Resources Are
not Fully Represented,
Special TO the enre,ts.

Special 70 the Gazette.
New ORLEANS, La, Jan. o when
a bank opens the cashier is in his
place ready for business. When a
school opens, the pupils are generally
I'LL there. When a merchant opens,
his goods are generally placed and
ready TO be sold, and when ball opens
the music begins and the dancers are
there 10 obey the calls. No so, how
ever, with the exposition. Opening
H. did not open 1t. when
II "openedn but few ex.
hi5its we're in place, and several
days will yet elapse before they will
all be in place. 1t will be the 18th Of
this month before the bulk OF them
Of next month will they all be CONF
Ileted,
l would not advise any of your
readers TO come here hef re the mid
die of this month, ard If they want TO
see all that is to be seen they had
be- tier wait until near the end of this
not want to see any OF them disnp
pointed, as many hsve beer who we're
led to believe that the
Opening day" meant what
the term implied. Large bodies
move slowly, and this herculeau en-
terprise ia so much larger than was Mt
first contemplated, il requires long
time 10 perfect it. Besides, the rail-
road nnntnufaffl q ,rf,fAe, Ia
nuunce their lowest rates for transports
alton until the show is ready for the
million. They must first feel certain
that the FEAST Is ready and the multi.
tude prepared for il before thew an
noUuCe their r. adiness TO comply with
the dem tnds Of the MASSES That the
rates will ultimately lie entirely aatis-
factory there is no doubt. The leading
business men of this country are as
ISOLATED with railroads, ana public
clamor will not be likely to sway them
In this or any kindred enterprise. The
presumption 10 they will do what Ia
right when the time comes to do il.
The Texas exhibits are now nearly
all in and the bulk of them placed
Every crow believes its own the
whitest, and we feel proud of ours.
Aud yet ours excels only 10 variety
and quantity, for individually con-
sidered many OF them will suffer by
mparisOn. Some states, for instance.
lay over us ia their display of min
erals, others in fruits, diners In vege-
tables, others in large and small
grains, others in woods, Others in
manufactures, aud so on TO the end Of
the chapter; but on the whole, we hold
our own In the aggregate. We have
more space than any other state, and
IL will all be occupied. Our state
might have done much better than 4.
has done. 1t has not put its best foot
forward. Many places like Galveston
have done nothing towards this exhi.
hition. The sum allotted by the legis.
lature was too small and the right
spirit has never been fully awakened
All has been done chat could be done
| by those who have charge of the mat,
ter, but Oue-half Of the entire govern,
| ment building at least would be re
| Quired to enable Texas to make such 9
display as she is capable of making
a state that has iron ore enough and
pine timber enough and marbl.
| enough and wheat region enough anC
! cotton lsnds enough aud cattle nougl
! to run these United States y century
and other resources in proper
| ton, ought to have crowded
! it's allotted space from IL.
foundation to It's don't! Had our state
with ita immense territory and re
sources, been as fully represented al
some Of the smaller states, this woulC
have been done. Our state, for in
stance claims to have more live stock
than any other, and yet there is not
live thing from Texas in the stock
yards. She claims 10 haye the only
iron ore in the United States from
which car wheel can be made with
out the admiNure of any other iron
and cement rock enough to supply th,
United States for centuries, and ye
there are no signs of either here lie
San Antonio, Round Rock and Kelley
vile tell us why? Every minera
known TO commerce lies hidden be
meath our surface, and tina
IL the reason perhaps VIII,
II is not exhibited here, The truth Is
Texas should have en- exhibition
building of her own at her capital, anC
1t shnuld be as large IS this govern
ment building. In 1t should be place,
specimens OF all her products tina
have accumulated aud all others 81
last as they accumulate, and then lie
other states eudeavOr To emulate her
and our magnitude would soon becom,
apparent to the whole world. IL woult
be a mastodOn among the MONKEYS |
would remind all of the fable OF Oh,
frog and the OK. If the obi ct of tbi
display was TO induce Immigration I,
cur state, the object will not be full,
attained.
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