Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-31
An Omen Letter.

To the People Of the South
Ifa merchant has goods to sell be does
not expect a customer to buy until be
sees the quality and price.
| II the South has lands, water powers,
minerals and timber TO sell they cannot
be sold unless they are advertised, and
unless what they are capable OF produc-
ing and the quality is shown to those who
desire to purchase.
The opportunity presented to each
county in the South to advertise its re-
sources, free Of cost, at the Southern
Interstate Permanent Display and Ex-
position is an exceptional one, and no
wide awake section can afford to be left
out.
Below we give list OF articles and the
quantity that can be exhibited. 1t will
cost but very little to collect the articles
for exhibition, and all Southern railroads
are transporting the exhibits free. All
that is necessary is to direct to Southern
Exposition, Raleigh, NC.
The following are among the articles
that are desirable from each section of
the South to place in the Southern Ex-
position to be held In the city of Raleigh,
N. c.:
One-hslf bushel of each variety of the
following: Barley, buckwheat, corn. oats,
rye, wheat, rice, grass seed, cane seed,
field peas, beans, dried apples, peaches,
ounces, prunes, cherries, wild and Guilt
waited berries, nuts and acOrns.
Preserved fruits IN half-gallon glass
jars.
One to ten pounds of each variety of
cotton IN seed and lint; flax and jute IN
various stages of manipulation.
len pounds of each variety of sugar
one gallon of each variety of mollasses
and sorghum honey, one quart or one to
ten pounds in comb.
Two lbs. of each variety of tobacco.
Ten pounds of each variety of grass
one bundle, six inches in diameter, Of
each variety of grain in the bheaf.
Hops, five pounds broom corn, ten to
twenty five heads; garden peas and
beans, one gallon of each variety dried.
Plants and growing shrubs in pots.
Spirtuous liquors, wines and all kinds
of liquids, one quart Of each variety.
Minerals, building stones, precious
stones, mari and phosphate rock, any size
specimens soils, one square foot as deep
as desired. boxed up 90 as to retain the
same shape as when taken from the
ground.
Wood and timber specimens, il in sawed
form, one inch thick, any width and
length if a section is sawed from the
tree, to DO any size desired if split from
tree, the section to be large enough to
square at least two by four inches, 10y
four feet long
Manufactured goods, from cotton. wool,
fax and silk, each sample usual width,
six Yards long; from wood or iron, one
specimen of kind.
Stuffed birds and animals; Indian rel
les and curiosities; Photographic views
of buildings, farm and scenery, one OF
kind.
The above list of articles may be added
to, both In variety aud quantity, accord
ing to what is produced, manufactured, or
found in each State or community,
The cheapest means of advertising is to
have o dozen columns Of ono issue OF your
county papers devoted to the advantages
that your county can offer to land buyers;
and have one to ten thousand printed,
and send us for distribution among the
large number of visitors who will attend
the Permanent Display, which il con-
tinuously open to the public, and the tx
position proper, to be held during DC,
tober and November. The visitors Will
expect to see what the South has to offer
to home seekers and capitalists.
Do not wait until October. Take this
work up at once, for the Permanent Dis
play is now being arranged in the city OF
Raleigh. The Permanent Display will be
kept open all the year round so that
what is sent in at once will be dong your
section great good. and you can add to 1t
from time to time as you make collec'
tions, Respectfully,
1T. PATRICK, Sec'y,
Raleigh, n c,