The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-29
.rhe Xnrth e.arnltna Exrnsitlo


The Philadelphia Times Of tie
2ist inst, s. } $: While some
sections Of the South have been
cursed with get-rich-quic bub-
bIas. .ioatea by cunning and un-
scrIpulouS spectators, it is
gratifying to note the fact that
tie general Industrial advance
ment ii the South is substantial
and healthy. \ better under
standing has lately been brought
about Of the mutual wants of
the North and the South. We
have immense surplus capital;
they have incalculable undevel
oped wealth; and gradually our
people are learning the truth
that in many sections of the
South the same amount Of capi
tai and labor will produce much
more profitable results lii the
same industry than they will
produce in the North.
During the last decade the
South has done much to make
its resources understood in the
North by a succession of State
Expositions, The National Elk
position of New Orleans was a
financial failure, but it accom-
plished good results. 1t was the
best object lesson the South had
ever presented to the country
and the world, and its beneti-
cent influence is not yet ended;
but ti.e more pr~ctical method
.of portraying the tempting
wealth Of the South has been by
State Expositions. They have
been held at Louisville, at At
lantl, ut Montgomery and at
other points in the South, and
they itlve gathered practical
men Of capital from every part
Of tile North, resulting in North
.era investments and Northorn
.ea".1y dading their way intU
scnt II Gt localities which have
beel rapidly developed into in
duhfr.al centres
Th Southern Exposition for
1881 will be held III Raleigh, the
capt. Il Of North Carolina, from
the lst of October until the lst
of December. In thismoyement
all Of the fourteen Southern
States and New Mexico and
Arizona have United, and ii viii
certainly b. one of them0st in
teresting an / instructive of all
tile Expositions in the South for
Northern people, 1t will bring
out more prominently than ever
before the agricultural resources
81 tile South. and the great ad
gantages the Southern States Of
fer to farmers over the far West.
Ten years ago the Times predict,
ed. after a very careful examina-
ton into the agricultural condi
ton and opportunities OF the
Sout /. that the time could not
be far distant when the tide of
agricultural emigration would
turn from the setting sun ~ the
more inviting South; and every
year has strengthened that con-
victiou.
North Carolina is peculiarly
an agricultural State. Ii has
iron aud coal, it has cotton and
tobacco: 1t has every cereal
grown in Pennsylvania: il has
fine pastures, gran water pow
ers. valuable timber, genial eli
mate. fruits in almost every
variety, ami easy access TO mar
ketS: but it has, above aiI. hun
dreds of thousands Of acres of
worn or half titled lands which
are much more valuable 10 tlte
practical farmer to-day than the
lands in the West costing quite
as much, and where distance
from markets aud cyclones,
droughts. grasshopp"rs, etc,
rob the farmer uf the truits Df his
tuii. The North Carolina Ex-
position will boa most valuable
lesson to the North in the ugri-
cultural resources of the state
especially and ~ the o!i South
ern States generally, AMI thOls.
ands of Northern people II all
industrial glasses should get
down to Raleigh during the fall
months.