Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-05
Shall We be Represented:

| On the 1st of June next there is to be
| opened in the city of Raleigh, \. c., a per-
| manent Southern museum or exhibit of the
natural products of the South: also the
| products of the workshop and factory
This is done under the auspices of the
Southern interstate immigration bureau.
This bureau is not fully understood by our
readers. and, therefore, we give a brief his
tory OF its origin.
The different state departments, seeing
what odds they had to work against in com
petition with the great Northwestern
states, the agents of whom used false state
ments to keep desirable settlers and manu-
facturers from locating in the South,
thought it wise for all the Southern states
TO pool their interests, as it were. \ con-
yention was called to assemble in the city
OF Montgomery, Ala, on the 18th day Of
December, 1855. The governors of the sew
eral Southern states appointed delegates to
represent their states, and more than GOO
from all the states, including Maryland on
the north and New Mexico on the west. as
Sembled and mutually agreed upon plan
of action, which was to form Joint bureau,
to be known as the Southern interstate
immigration bureau; and that that bureau
should be composed of one man from each
Southern state, with a general manager, to
have full power to carry out the desire of
the people of the South. On the 18th of De-
cember, 1890, a second convention was
called in like manner to review the work
that was lnaugurated at Montgomery The
convention was held in the city of ASheviile
n. c., and the verdict of the convention
was unanimous in saying the South had
started on the right road, and that the COM
binatiOn was a good plan for the develop
ment of the South. At the Montgomery
convention, Gen. f. B. Chiffon, of Austin,
Tex, who was commissioner of lands and
immigration for that state, was chosen
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at the Asheville convention. The wish of the
majority of the delegates was to remove the
headquarters from Texas to a point
near the northern border of the Southern
states, and open Il representative exhibit Of
the products of the South. 1t was thought
best to choose either Baltimore, Wash
ington, Richmond or Raleigh, and that the
selection of either one of them be made ac-
cocding to the greatest aid extended in the
way OF money and buildings. RaleighS
offer was considered the best by the gem
eral management: they Offering money con-
sideratiOn sufficient to pay the removing eX-
penseS of the bureau and the use of very
large and commodies buildings for the use
of the state displays. We publish in another
column list of articles and the quantity
that any town or county can send for exhi-
bition 1T the permanent exhibit, and there
is no expense except the freight charges to
Raleigh.
Thousands of people from the Northern
states and Europe will visit this exposition
expecting to see exhibits from every part of
the South, and it behooves our people to
stir themselves at once and see that cred
liable exhibit is sent from this section.
Special information may be obtained by
addressing Gen. +. B. Chiffon, Raleigh, n.
{. Exhibits may be sent at any time, as
the exhibit will be permanent one, but the
sooner they are forwarded the better il will
be for our county We should not delay in
obtaining all the benefit we can from the
great work being done for Us.