The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-10-10
CHARLEST0N'S
EXPOSITION.
Facts About What is Being
Done to Make it q Success.

The South Carolina Inter State and
West Indian Exposition will be held
in the City of Charleston next year
The capital stock of the Exposition
Company has been fixed at $25o,oOo,
and the resources of the company are
estimated $1.0Oo,eOo 1t is propos
ed that this Exposition shall be fully
representative of the material
resources aud manufacturing and
commercial interests of South Caro-
lins and the Southern States, parti.
cularly. and of the whole United
States and their new possessions in
the West Indies and Philippines
The most encouraging pledges OF
assistance and cooperation have been
received from the authorities at
Washington aud from the Governors
and Commissioners of Agriculture of
nearly every state in the Union The
leading commercial organizations of
the principal cities in the United
States have promised their active CO.
operation, and it is expected that the
Exposition. in all its varied features,
will be the most complete
and attractive that has ever
been held in the South The
subscriptions to the capital stock
of the Exposition Company made In
the city of Charleston aggregate
5000, 900, and, as the Exposition !s to
be of direct benefit to every industry
10 the State and to every county of
the State, it is hoped that there Will
be liberal subscription made by The
manufacturers and merchant aud
business men of the wao!e State
Arrangements have been made
for an Exposition day. 1t
the Annual Fair of the South Carolina
State Agricultural and Mechanical
Society 70 be held in the City CT
Columbia during the month Of Octo
Der. and the opportunity will at that
tine be presented to the people Of the
State to subscribe 70 the foil exteui
OF their ability and disposition to
the capital stock of The Exposition
Company. The shares of the Tx
position Company have been placed
a, s5, each, payable in 'nstalments
upon the call of the Board of Dlrec
tors. and, as every industry il the
State aud the people of every county
are interested in the attraction o1
capital TO South Carolina for invest
ment and of intelligent aud progres.
siye people in search of hcmes, it is
thought that there will be lioera
subscription made, during the State
Fair, 10 the stock Of the Exposition
Company Millions of dollars are
going out West every year for IN
yestment, and hundreds of thousand:
Of people in search of homes arr
arriving in this country every year
There 10 no reason why much OF this
capita! and many Of these settler
cannot be brought to oouta Oafo'ln'
{ aud the South if the people who ar
interested ia the Improvement OF ou
opportunities will make the most o
the advantages which will be afforded
by the Exposition at Charleston TO
the full development of the resources
During the State Fair at eoluuo'
au important conference will be heia b
the representatives of the ExpoS't'0'
} Company With the co,,oo mill neo
the State, pcariy all OF whom bav
signi6ed their wish 2ad disposition t
, aid 10 making the textile features .
the Exposition complete 'o every detsi'
South Carolina, which is tceay te
. largest cotton manufacturing State !
~ Oo,tb oo6 ,he second largest man