Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-07-30
AN OPEN LETTER.
To THE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH.


IT a merchant has goods to sell he
does not expect customer to buy
until he sees the quality and price.
1t The South has lands, water pow
ers, and minerals and timber To sell
they cannot be sold unless they are
a!vertised, and unless what they are
capable of producing and the quality
is shown to those who desire 10
purchase.
The opportunity presented to the
people Of each county in the South
to advertise It's resources, free ot
cost, at the Southern Interstate
Pei manent Display and Exposition
isan 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 exhlb-
ited' 1t will cost but very little to
collect the articles for exhibition,
and allsoulhern railroads are trans
porting the exhibits free. All that
Is necessary is to direct to Southern
Exposition, Raleigh. N. G.
The following are among the ar
ticles that are desirable from each
section Of the South to place In the
Southern Exposition 10 be held in
the city of Raleigh, N. c.:
One-balf busheI of each variety of
the following: Barley, buck Nv heat,
corn, oats. rye, wheat, rice. grass
seed. cane seed, field peas. beans,
dried apples, peaches, ounces, cher
ries, pruhes, wild and cultivated Der.
ries, 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
lnte. In various stages Of manipula-
/ ton.
Ten pounds of each variety Of
sugar, one gallon. of each variety Of
moiasses and sorghum, honey one
quart or one TO ten pounds in comb
/ Two pounds of each variety o
tobacco.
Ten pounds of each qariety o
grass. one bundle, six incnes in di.
ameter, of each variety of grain il
sheaf.
Hops, five pounds, broom corn
ten to twenty 1--we heads; garder
peas rnd beans, one gallon OF eaci
variety dried.
| Plants and growing shrubs in pots
| Spirituons liquors, wines and al
kinds Of liquids, one quart of eaci
variety.
| Minerals and building stones, pre-
eioas stones, mari and phosphate
rock, any size specimens; soils. on,
DOT square as deep -sssss'Tss',;
up so as to retaia the ses0e "A @
wAsassat e sFeana.
sawed form, one inch thick. any
width, and length, If section is
sawed from the tnee, to be any size
desired, if split from the tree, the
section 70 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
rehcs and curiosities, Photographic
| views Of buildings. farms and scene-
ry. one of . kind.
| The above list Of articles may be
ADDED to, both in variety and guam
uiy. according 10 what is produced,
manufactured or found in each state
or community.
| The cheapest means Of advertis-
ing is to have . dozen columns of
ono issue Of your county papers de-
voted 10 the advantages that your
county can offer to land buyers, aud
have one to ten ahousand printed,
and send to us for distrihutlon a.
mong the large number Of visitors
WHO will attend the Permanent Dis
play, which is continuously open to
the public, and the Exposition prop
/ er, to be held during October and
November. The visitors will ex-
| poet 10 see what the South has 10