Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-05-18
AUGUSTA At THE RICHMOND
EXPOSITION.

The Augusta Board of Supervisors haYe
very properly postponed the question of
an appropriation towards the representa-
ton of the county at the Richmond Expo
sition, in order to obtain the opinion of
their law officer on their power to make
such an appropriation. They naturally, in
dealing with the interests OF others COM
mitted to their care, desire to proceed
legally and in order. That the opinion of
the Commonwealth g Attorney will be IN
favor of Its legality there is hardly a
doubt, and while waiting for June 4th,
the date to which the Board adjourned,
we may as well say word or two in refer
ence to the object of the appropriation. In
the first place. the appropriation is ex-
clusively one for the benefit and use of the
county. The city of Staunton, if it desires
representation, will have separate space
and its Board of Supervisors, which is the
City Council, will make an appropriation
Of such character as will secure proper
facilities for the setting forth to the world
of the advantages of the city. But the
managers of the Exposition have wisely
adopted the plan of putting the counties
individually and separately on their metal,
giving each that applies separate space,
recognizing officially the agents they shall
send. and designating large premiums for
individual counties. For instance, there
is $500 premium to the county which
makes the best agricultural, horticultural
and genealogical display; another of $500
to the county that makes the best mineral
and timber. or wood display, and so on.
AT that Exposition will be gathered many
thousands Of persons from all over this
country and Canada, who are looking for
farms located in climate where a man
can work in the open air every day in the
year.; where there is just enough freez-
ing to make ice for use; we'll watered
country with fertile soil, and where that
soil is for sale. Many others who come to
the Exposition will be looking for mineral
land and for timber land. All of these
want to see specimens of the products of a
county. which they can handle and exa-
mine; they want to see map of the coun-
ty giving the lay of the land, its popula-
ton, some idea of its schools, churches
and railway stations; they will want to
talk about these things, and for this they
want to talk to a man who lives in the
county, who knows it's people thoroughly,
and reliable man withal. To meet these
conditions; to put Augusta in line with
the other Virginia counties-for there
never has been anything to approach the
exhibitions those counties will make at
this Exposition; to give general sense of
satisfaction and confidence among our
county people that the expenditure is to
be made iudiciously and for the practical
benefit of the people from whose taxes if
is taken, and to whom it will be returned
an hundred-fold, we know of no better
step for the Supervisors to take than to
make a liberal appropriation and appoint
the Clerk of the Board, Mr.. VIM. A. Bur-
nett, as the agent of Augusta at the Ex-
position.
The Exposition is to be on the grandest
scale ever attempted in the South and ia
to last from October Sd to November 21st.
Its buildings, which will be the largest
ever erected in this country, will give over
quarter of million feet of floor space
with spacious towers and galleries, and
with steam railway running through it
for cars bringing and Carrying exhibits
Here there will be allotted space to every
county in Virginia in which to exhibit its
products. In every corner of the Union
the exposition is now being advertised and
pushed. and when the immense gathering
of Americans reaches there in October
there will be ready for their inspection the
handsomest exposition building. park and
grounds in this country. The hum of ma
chinery will be heard from morning till |
night, the richest agricultural products of |
an agricultural State will be there, and |
with them the maps and history of the
lands from which they came. It is need