The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-12-03
THE COLUMBIAN FAIR.
HE GRANDEST STATE IN THE
UNION SHOULD HAVE THE
GRANDEST EXHIBIT
AT CHICAGO.

There is Need for First Glass GeoIog.
ical Map OF North CarOlina..The
opinion of Great Inventor Quoted.
Especial Cor, to STATE CHRoN1CLR.)
SALISBURY, n. c., Nov. 29.-I grasp
the hand of Peter NJ. Wilson and heartily
endorse his suggestion that prepara-
tlon for great exhibit from North Car
DINA at the Worlds Fair in Chicago
should begin at once.
Previous efforts along this line at
Boston, New Orleans and Raleigh aston
lshed not only strangers but ourselves as
we'll. We have never done our best
and never can. Above and beneath the
sun kissed soil of this grand old State
there be such vast stores Of wealth that
any effort to make collection of speci-
mems to indicate its real extent can but
be futile; but we can easily step to the
front of any other State in showing
variety of resources, and we ought to do
1t. North Carolina is not re-
celvlng her just proportion Of
the money that is steadily flowing
into the South, nor are the brainy men
OF the country paying SO much attention
| TO her as to other sections.
Why is this ? We don't know why,
but we ought to try to learn. Maybe it
is because they don't know what we
really possess. If that be the difficulty,
then let's remove it.
Let's organize, and organize early.
Then let's begin work, and begin early,
and let's show the millions of ofpeople who
will go from every quarter of the globe
to Chicago in 80 that North Carolina is
the greatest State in the sisterhood of
States that form this, the grandest coun-
try upon which the stars shine.
Should the Legislature take action
Unquestionably. 1t should give the
matter the most careful consideration,
and it should provide unsparingly, if
need be, for a collection and arrange
ment Of the most complete exhibit of re-
sources and the most systematic and
thorough setting forth of advantages that
we have ever yet made.
Our mountains of marble, of slate and
of granite; our mother lodeS of manga
nese, iron and coal our rich tissues of sill
, yer, Of gold and Of copper stretching
along our part Of the great Appalachian
belt; our broad areas Of native wood
land, where the poplar, the pine, the
, walnut, the maple and all other woods
: known in the kingdom of forestry
abound inexhaustibly; our broad valleys
and fields, on which grow almost spon.
: taneously nearly every stalk and plant
Y known to agriculture.
:, All these things we have and we know
~ oh h. fAn&
! have them, and invite men and money
to come and to keep coming, and aid u
a in our grand new era of industrial de
! velopment. Let the Legislator
r help and let all the people help
and as at Boston our exhibi
5 at Chicago will speak to the industria
: world in tones that will be heard an,
n needed.
# In this connection there is on
: other important thing the Legislator
a ought to do. l. ought to inaugural
plans and appropriate sufficient none
: for making and publishing correct an
r. complete geological map of Mort
q Carolina, to be made not from wha
O "grandpa told uncle John," but froU
,. actual and careful surveys made by th
). best engineers and geologists that ca
p, be secured. One of the most eminen
q. men in America said to me recently:
II am surprised that your State, pos
# sessing as it does such vast deposits {
Ia mineral and metal, should not have
% reliable geological map" "and the none
,e that it will cost to have one made" b
"a continued, twill be the best investmeI
+. your State has ever made"
" Let's get ourselves in readiness an
then step up where we belong-in th
y very front. of progressive States.
! F. B. ARENDELL.