The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1891-10-11
THE STATE FAIR
OPENS TUESDAY,
Exhibits Continue to Ar
rive at the Exposi-
ton.
E" TEXAS DAYS"
Cor. Hogg and Other Prominent
Texans Erpected- What Col.
Whitehead and Moj. .Stah-
erlin Think of the
Exhibits.

esterday)s attendance was not
as large as that of Friday, but was
yet good for rainy Saturday. Sec
retary Patrick says that the records
show that the attendance during the
opening ten days is greater than for
that period at the Atlanta Cotton
Expo sition of 1881.
Upon his return to Richmond last
Thursday, Colonel Thomas White
head, Commissioner of Agriculture,
in an interview reported in the
Richmond Times, said that North
Carolina's favorite seaport is Nor
folk and Richmond her most init
mate market. He says the South
ern States generally seem to be in
terested in the Exposition, and if it
continues to increase as rapidly as
it is now doing it will be a grand
affair. The Virginia space is rapidly
filing up. The Miller Manual
School exhibit arrived Wednesday,
and they look for large addition
from the State Fair and other Vir-
ginia agricultural societies as soon
as their own exhibitions close. The
, Exposition at Raleigh is not State
, affair, but is being given by the
Southern States International In
migration Society, and is intended
as a means of showing to the world
. the resources of the South in order
! to attract good class of immigrants.
o The society is permanent organi-
zation and contemplate hav-
ing permanent exhibition at
some favorable point in the South.
He thinks the present Exposition
will do large amount Of good and
y particularly when the 450 North
ern editors who have been invited
It to attend at the expense of the Ex-
t, position arrive and make known tc
| their readers the riches of the sunny
2. South. Colonel Sutherlin, who
d also attended as president Of the
r Virginia State Board Of Agriculture
J. and as we'll as Colonel Whitehead
n made an address on Virginia day, il
lie deeply impressed with the import
Is ance of the Exposition to the South
X Many people look at an expositio,
&c as they would at passing show
At The Exposition is now getting il
1t shape for study. 1t certainly ha
t. peculiar interest for a North Caro-
s linian. How many people know
* what wide range Of climate tn
is State shows until they see the pal
IN metto from Brunswick and tn
re balsam from Buncombe. How man
r know that as large and as fnel
is favored cranberries as New Jerse
tn furnishes are shown in the modes
ch little section occupied by Ash
Ie county. The latter county sthirt
e. miles from a railway, but it is
or garden spot, with blue grass lik
&C. that in Kentucky and with infnit
10 prospects in the way of farming
of minerals, healing waters and stoc
er. raising. Who five years ago woul
~ have thought Of rich, yellow tobacc
ui- from Edgecombe county: "
he if one takes look {
NJ. the exhibit of that county
products !obacco unexcelled in colo
will be found. 1t shows what I'll
new tobacco region can do.
in Are the railways giving the Gel
his a mile rate to the Exposition Ye
rs, terday a man said he had apple
es. last Tuesday at Oxford for tick
to the Exposition. He was to
they had no such tickets on sale az