The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-07-25
THE SOUTHERN EXPOSITION.
An Open Letter From Secretar
DafrRRk

An Open Letter From Secretary
Patrick.
To the People of the South:
If a merchant has goods to sell he does
not expect customer to buy until he sees
the quality and price.
If the South has land, water powers, min
eral and timber to sell they cannot be sold
unless they are advertised, and unless what
they are capable of producing and the
quality is shown to those who desire TO
purchase.
The opportunity presented to the people
of each county in the South to advertise
it's resources, free of cost, at the Southern
Interstate Permanent Display and Expo
stion 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. It 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, N. G.
| The following are among the articles
that are desirable from each section of the
South to place in the Southern Exposition
to be held in the city of Raleigh, N. c.:
| One-half 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 cult
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; fax and jute in
various stages of manipulation.
Ten pounds of each variety of sugar; one
gallon of each variety of molasses and
sorghum; honey, one quart or one to ten
pounds in comb.
Two pounds of each variety of tobacco
Ten pounds Of each variety of grass; one
bundle, six inches in diamater, of each
variety of grain in sheaf.
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.
SpirituOus 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 foot square as deep
as desired, boxed up so as to retain the
same shape as when taken from the
ground.
Wood and timber, if in sawed form,
one inch thick, any width and length; if
a section is sawed from the tree, to be
any size desired; if split from the tree,
the section to be large enough to square
at least two by four inches, by 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 relics
and curiosities, Photographic views of
buildings, farms and scenery, one of a
kind.
The above list of articles may be added
to, both in variety and quantity, accord :
ing to what is produced, manufactured,
or found in each state or community.
The cheapest means of advertising is
to have dozen columns of one issue of
your county papers devoted to the advan
tages that your county can offer to land
buyers; and have one to ten thousand
printed, and send to us for distribution
among the large number of visitors who
" ill attend the permanent display, which
is continuously open to the public, and
the exposition proper, to be held during
October 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, tor the Permanent Dis
play 10 now being arranged in the city OF
Ra 'eigh. The P. rmanenldisplay will be
ke pit open all the year round 80 that what
10 sent 10 ri once will be doing your eec-
ton great good, and you can add to il from
time 10 time az you make collections.
Respectfully,
1T. PATRICK. Secretary,
Raleigh, N. G.