The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1903-06-12
BIG SANDY PRODUCTS.
What Will Our People Send to St.
Louis Worlds Fairl

Many of the citizens of the Sandy
valley have for years been laboring
earnestly and zealously, donating liber-
ally of their time, money and energies
for the development of the valley along
all lines that would bring ont the coun-
try's latent wealth and with it more of
lifes comforts toitscitizens Now that
their efforts have been crowned with
success by slackwater and railroad con
struction to transport our products to
the markets of the world, gives us as.
surance that at last many good things
are coming our way, aud that our peo-
pie net d not, hereafter, wholly rely ON
the sawlog crop to provide the comforts
and necessarles of life, 1t now behooye
every good and loyal citizen to lend
! a helping hand to this development I
our country by thorough and persist |
ent advertisement of our section by an
exhibit of all its varied resources at st
Louis Exposition next year and let the
people of all lands ON the globe not on
| ly know that all good things are coming
our way, but that we already have them
in abundandance and 20 spare. That
it is populated with n people that are
enterprising, intelligent, social, moral
and no manner tolerate the birthstone
business so extensively practiced ins some
parts Of the state
wish to impress on the minds of the
farmers Of the county theimportance of
making creditable show at st. Louis
next year of all our agricultural and
horticultural products. Many of these
will have to he taken from the crops of
the present season and il is hoped that
many farmers will do their best to aid in
this exhibit so essential to our prosperi-
ty and good name
Samples of the cereals, sorghum in
all its forms grasses, cloyers, Tobacco.
hemp, fruit and vegetables will be i'll
the line of the exhibit
Any member of the local committee
or the NEWS will at any time take
pleasure in giving any information de,
sired with regard to the preparation
and quantities Of articles or pro
!, ducts designed for Lawrence county,
exhibit
Five thousand square feet of space
has been allotted to Kentucky in tn,
! Agricultural building. and three thous
and square feet in the Horticulture
building of the Exposition OF this to
tai of eight thousand square feet on
county will receive its proportion.
: Shall we fill our space It is up t,
y MS. No tax has been levied on MS eth
er by the State or county in providing
this great opportunity to exhibit our re
!. sources agricultural and horticulture
lines. If we fail to fill our portion O
space allotted to us in this exhibit,
: will show to the world that we do ne
= appreciate the kindness Of our public
spirited men who have made this poss
BILE by their liberal donations of none
:. and time and placed the opportunit
:. within our grasp free of tax to til
county, in theabsence ofappropriation'
as was done elsewhere,
- SO thorough has been the organic
ton of the entire State by the Kentuck
!. Exhibit Association ION private dom
= tons that the committee membershi
> numbers 40 members but without Il
cooperation of the farmers in raisii
=, all products that collectively will for
a creditable exhibit, failure is bound
y. result and we loose the grandest oppo
~ tunity that was ever extended to Al
people aud that free of taxation
" Recently many new industries ha
- sprung up in our county and most not
- bly, among those that pertain directly
~. agriculture is that Of breeding the a
CORA goat, the producer of "mohail
:, and although it has been but a very +,
years since the hrst Importation W
made, these brush-killers now numt
~ over two thousand head The own'
mi Of some of these Hocks assure us Il
IL they will not only exhibit mohair at
lis, exposition butwill have the real q
ur- there in person
A Now let each farmer who raises a
\ is extra good products in any of the graf
sod fruits, vegetables or grasses, etc, ca
ed fully preserve small quantity of t
: years crop as but few articles can
grown and matured in time for the
w position, which will open in May ,
lhe close in October
hen W T. KANE,
9TH Member Lawrence County G.
Fallsburr. Ky.