The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-21
WANT IT FIXED.
Fair Commission Expects to
Correct Wrong Impression.
Would Let the World Know How
Kansas Stands.
PLAN OF EDUCATION.
Il Is to Be Demonstrated at the
Fair.
OF Course More Money Will Be
Needed.
PLAN OF EDUCATION.

The Kansas WORLDS fair commission
proposes to open the eyes of the world
or at least that part of it which attends
the st. Louis Worlds fair in 1904-With
respect to the resources of the Sunf1ow-
er state The majority of people east
of the Mississippi, and some nearer than
that even, think OF Kansas as a frontier
state where the people are on the verge
OF starvation, but where occasional big
crops of corn and wheat are raised. A
good many do not even know about the
corn and wheat Very few realize that
the greatest zinc and lead region in the
world is in Kansas. They do not know
that Kansas has one OF the creates oil
and gas fields known; that only two or
three states excel it in the production
of salt, and that it has immense coal
deposits. Little is known of the great
SmelterS and other industries of that
character which have located in south
eastern Kansas in recent years-in fact,
many Kansas people do not know much
about these.
These things will be exploited at St.
Louis in addition to the great agricul-
tural and live stock resources of the
state; the educational facilities, and the
development of the people along all
lines VIII be shown.
The Kansas commission is in session
at the astate house this afternoon pre-
pairing the specifications under which
the architects will be asked to compete
for the prize which is offered for the
The subject of how little eastern Deo-
pie really know about Kansas came up
for discussion in Governor Stanley ,
office today when two members of the
commission, Senator John c. Carpenter
and Senator r. T. Simons. We're present.
1t makes me weary" said Senator
Simons, when go back to Iowa where
used to live and see the way those
people act toward Kansas-ny own peo-
pie, mind you. They. seem TO think that
Iowa is the whole thing, and they act as
though Kansas was way out where
nothing amounted to anything. I intend
that the Kansas exhibit at St. Louis
snail beat Iowa's, at any rate
When we get our exhibit in St. Louis
just invite your Iowa friends over to
see US" said Colonel Carpenter. .and
Well open their eyes
Il was back in New York and Phfla-
delphia few weeks ago." said E B.
Iewett warden of the penitentiary, who
was present. and a man back there
asked me what we burn out here in
Kansas He was a well to do business
man and was better informed than the
average. / told him we had great coal
neids out here, and immense quantities
of natural gas, and that a large ma
jofity of the farmers over most of the
state have timber grove of their own
raising sufficient to more than supply
them with fuel. That man was greatly
surprised. He supposed there was no
timber out here and he knew scarcely
anything about the mineral resources of
the state.
II was down in Pittsburg a few days
ago. continued Warden Jewett, land
must confess that the situation down
there was revelation to me, and 1 am
pretty we'll acquainted with the state
too Pittsburg is already great place
and that entire region is almost a, con-
| tinuous town. It's absolutely wonder
full. [ am used to thinking of Kansas
as a prairie state, covered with wheat
and corn fields. but 1t isn't that way
down there"
IA wonderful change is going on in
southeastern Kansas said Colonel Car
penter, There are a number of towns
that are coming to the front with the
development of natural gas, and l look
for still greater change all over that
region within the next four or five
years. New gas and oil wells are being
opened every few days and all sorts Of
manufacturing industries are locating
there as result Within the last two
years a new element has come into
many of those communities