The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-05
AN INDEX TO INDUSTRIES
THAT is WHAT THE COMING STATE Ex-
HlBlT WILL Be.
All Manufacturers who do not Wish to Make
Individual Exhibits are Asked 10 at
Least Send Samples Of their
Products.
To North Carolina Manufacturers:

To North Carolina Manufacturers:
Gentlemen: The North Carolina State
Agricultural Society takes pleasure in of
fering to exhibitors the premium list Of
its 1hirty-eighth Annual Fair. which will
be held in Raleigh, North Carolina, from
Monday, October oath to Saturday. Doth
1898.
The patrons and friends of this time
honored institution will be gratified at
the evidences of renewed prosperity that
are everywhere apparent.
The new management are imbued with
the idea that the great North Carolina
Fair still has an important function
to perform in the business economy of
North Carolina and the South.
The great object of the State Fair
is TO exhibit as far as possible the res
ources and Industries of the State. North
Carolina has made more rapid progress III
manufacturing enterprise during the last
twenty years than any other State IN
the Union
The managers for the present year will
make special efforts to secure exhibits
from every manufacturing establishment
in the State. These articles will all be
properly labeled and all arranged in di-
vision in the main building to be known
as an Index to North Carolina Indus
tries" 1t matters not how small the
article, all will receive the same atten-
ton OF course some exhibitors may
wish to have a display of their own; SO
much the better if they dove have
ample room for ALL There is not Il
manufacturing establishment in the State
that cannot send something.
Cotton mills can send a bolt or a
half bolt of Dlaids bunch of yarns
or Irvine. All wooden mills can send a
few Of the products of their looms.
Canning establishments, samples of their
fruits and vegetables. Wood-workers,
samples of their skill in some form. Tan
ners can send samples of their leather
and dressed skins. Saddlers and har-
ness-makers can send a saddle. a birdie.
or set of harness. Millers can send
"A barrel of North Carolina flour corn
meal, etc.
Carriage and buggy and wagon-makers
can all send vehicles or other useful ar
ticles to add TO this interesting exhibit.
~ are invited to send something.
The service of an expert viii be Sc
cured, who will arrange these exhibits IN
the most attractive STYLE We believe
that it will make one of the most inter-
esting exhibits ever shown at any State
Fair. 1t is hoped that every manufac-
turing establishment in the State will
send something. Every article viii be
cared for and returned at the close Of
the Fair, unless otherwise directed.
Let the exhibit be truly an index
to North Carolina industries.
SEPARATE EXHIBITS.
The foregoing plan is not intended TO
supersede the separate exhibits expected
from some of the largest establishments
in the State We want just as many
of these individual exhibits as possible,
but when this cannot be done. contribu-
tons TO the general display can be
made
While it is true that our manufacturing
industries have grown in North Caro-
ton in the last few years beyond
the most sanguine expectation of our
people, on the other hand the agricultural
interest has not kept pace with it, and
is by no means equal to what it was
prior to the war;
appeal to the manufacturers of the
State to aid the Fair, for in so doing
they help the farmers, and they contri-
butte largely towards the development
and the upbuilding of North Carolina.
Yours truly,
JOHN $. CUNNINGHAM,
President n. G. Agricultural Society.
Cunningham, N. g.