The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-03-28
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Indiana Should Show Her Resources.
ST. LOUIS, March 19, 1902.
To the Editor of COURIER, Jas
per, Indiana. Sir:-ln this,
|, the city Of st. Louis, Mo, on May
/, 1908, the Louisiana Purchase
) Exposition will throw its gates open
to the world. The magnitude OF
this Worlds Fair will be apparent
to you when compared with other
enterprises of a similar character.
!, The Louisiana Purchase Exposi-
ton, it is intended, shall befittingly
} celebrate the gigantic one billion
acre purchase by "Uncle Sam
} through the agency OF Thomas JET
ferson in 1903, at cost OF fifteen
!, million dollars. Out of the Louis
lana Purchase have been carved the
following states and territories:
: Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri,
Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Me-
braska, North Dakota, South Da-
} kota, Colorado, Wyoming, Mon
tana, Indian Territory, Oklahoma
Territory.
These states and territories stand
as a living monument to the fore
sight ard sagacity Of Thomas JET
ferson. Ii is the one hundredth an
niversary of this event so renowned
in our history that our Government
proposes to celebrate from May 1st
to December 1st, 1903, in the city
of St. Louis.
The facts set forth herein will
convince you that this exposition IS
properly designated a Worlds Fair.
The ground space required upon
which to build the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition is 1900 acres, as
against 633 acres for the great Col
umbian Exposition Of Chicago in
1898; 1886 acres for the Exposition
at Paris in 1900; $50 acres for the
Pan n-American Exposition at But
falo, New York, in 1901, and 236
acres for the Centennial Exposition
Of Philadelphia in 1876.
Thus you will see the ground
space required for the building of
; the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
is nearly twice as great as that re-
auired for the Columbian Exposi-
ton of Chicago, and one-fourth
greater than the combined exposi-
tions Of Paris, Buffalo, and the Gen.
tennial Exposition Of Philadelphia.
\ Tc still further illustrate the mag
nitude Of the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition, we furnish herewith a
few figures regarding the relative
cost Of this and other expositions.
The Paris Exposition was built at a
cost of SO, 100000; the total cost OF
the Pan American Exposition was
$4,000, 900; the construction cost
of the great Columbian Exposition
of Chicago was $1S,322 900, while
the construction cost of the Louis.
lana Purchase Exposition will be
$50, 100000.
The United States Governmen
has appropriated $1,000, GOO in aid
OF the Louisiana Purchase Exposi-
ton, and the late President Mckin-
lev issued proclamation extending
a special invitation to every country
in the world and every state in the
, Union, to participate.
The city OF st. Louis appropriated
$4,000, 900. In addition, the cit
izens Of st. Louis raised by popular
subscription 100000. To this
enormous fund Of $4,000, 900
which is available for the use Of the
exposition, the state Of Missouri
!, has appropriated 81 100000 for a
. building and an exhibit.
The buildings are being erected
. under the supervision Of the best
architects in the world, and as you
will observe by the figures just fur
nished, upon scale of magnifi-
cence never before attempted, and
neither effort nor expense will be
spared to make the Louisiana Pur-
, chase exposition a colossal Worlds
Fair.
The state Of Illinois has already
appropriated $25O,000 for the Hi
! nois display. The state OF Iowa has
promised like amount for her ex-
hibit. Olher state have made gen.
erous provisions for befitting repre-
sentation, and not single state,
whose Legislature convened this
wioter, has failed to make liberal
, provision for a display OF its re,
/, sources.
Indiana Is one OF the leading
/, states OF the Union. Her people are
among the most prosperous and in
telligent. Tne products Of her ag'
f, ricultural and manufacturing dis.
tricts have always occupied a prom