Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-10-10
THE EXPOSITION AT CHARLESTON.
II will be Thoroughly Representative Of tho
Industrial, Interests OF tho South.

Industrial Interests Of tho South.
The South Carolina Interstate 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 S250,0OO, and its re-.
sources are estimated at s1,O00,OO0. 1t
is proposed that this exposition shall be
fully representative of tho material rc.
sources and manufacturing and CON-
mcrcial interests of South Carolina and
tho Southern States particularly and of
tho whole United States and their new
possessions in tho West Indies and the
Philippines. Tho most encouraging
pledges of assistance and corporation
have boon received from the authorities
at Washington and from tho Governors
and Commissioners of Agriculture of
nearly ovory State in tho Union. The
leading commercial organizations of tho
principal cities in tho United States have
promised thoir active CO. operation, and
it is expected that tho exposition, in all
it's varied features, will bo tho most CON-
plctc and attractive that has cvor been
hold in the South
Tho subscriptions to tho capital stock
of tho Exposition Company made in tho
city of Charleston aggregate nearly $780,
600, and as tho exposition is to bo of
direct benefit to every industry in tho
State, and to every county of the State,
it is hoped that there will DO liberal
subscription made by tho manufacturers
and merchants and business mon of tho
whole State.
Arrangements have been mado for an
"Exposition Day" at tho annual fair of
tho South Carolina State Agricultural
and Mechanical Society, to DO held in
Columbia during the month of October,
and the opportunity will at that timo be
presented to tho people Of tho State to
subscribe to tho full extent of their abil-
ity and disposition to tho capital stock
of the Exposition Company. The shares
have been placed ut S5 each, payable in
installmcnts upon tho call of tho board of
directors, and as every industry in tho
State and the people of overy county
arc interested in the attraction Of capi-
tai to South Carolina for Investment and
of intelligent and progressive people in
search of homes, it is thought that there
will be liberal subscription made dur
ing the State Fair to the stock of the
Exposition Company
Millions of dollars arc going out West
every year for investment, and hundreds
OF thousands Of people in search of
homes are arriving in this country every
year. There is no reason why much of
this capital and many of these settlers
cannot DC brought to South Carolina and
the South if the people who are inter
cstcd in the Improvement of our oppor-
tuniticS will make the most Of the adj
vantagcs which will be afforded by tho
exposition at Charleston for tho full
development Of their resources.
During the State Fai at Columbia an
important conference W, be held by tho
representatives of the exposition Com
pany with the cotton ID i'll men of tho
State, nearly all of whom have sgnilicd
their wish and disposition to aid in
making the tcxtlc features of the expo-
sition complete in every detail. South
Carolina, which is to-day the largest cot
ton manufacturing State in the South,
and the second largest manufacturing
State in the Union, ought to present a
study in progress at the exposition which
will impress the visitors to the cxposi-
tion and result in the extension of orr
commercial relations with tho countries
of South America and tho West Indies.
During the month of October the North
Carolina State Fair will be held at Raj
cigh, in that State, and the Georgia State
Fair will be held in Atlanta. Arrange
mcnts are being made for the full pro-
scntation of the purposes OF the great
enterprise at Charleston to the cotton
mill men of North Carolina, which ranks
second to this State in cotton mill dcvel-
opmcnt and improvement, and of Gcor-
gia, which is n good third in the race for
manufacturing supremacy. An opportu-
nifty will be presented the manufacturers
OF these two States to join in the textile
exhibit at Charleston; and with these
thrcc--with the Carolinas and Georgia
"'iNlhS toSclncf upon Il uCllnllC and I
wcll-considcrcd plan-thc great textile |
at Charleston will contain tho !
richest treasury of manufactured cotton |
goods that has ever been presented
Gen. Il. w. Noise, Of Sumter, has been
appointed the State Commissioner for
south Carolina Of the Exposition Com
pany, and will make a thorough canvass
)f this state in the interest of the enter
prise He will be prepared to receive
to the capital stock of the
company and TO answer questions as to
he scope OF tho exposition and its meal
'ulabic benefits to the people Of South
carolina. The progress of this State
inrlng the past two decades has been
without a parallel in tho history of any
country, and the exposition at Charles
Ton will serve to emphasize this marvel.
'ns growth and to impress upon capital
SITS and homc-Scckcrs tho chances for
'utnrc development in a State whose
ind"vclopcd wealth has, with all our
growth and prosperity, scarcely yet been
,ouchcd.
Exposition Day.
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