The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1910-05-27

Special to the Globe.
Knoxville, Tenn, May 24.-The
Negroes of Tennessee and the
South will play conspicuous part In
making the Appalachian Exposition a
success. Al strong committee has been
appointed, headed by one of the lead
ing men of East Tennessee, and al
ready they are making themselves
useful in the development of the en-
terprse.
The Appalachian Exposition will be
held for the advancement of the va
ried interests of the great Middle
South, and consequently for the en-
richment of the Nation 1t is pro
posed:
First: To stress the vital impor
lance of conserving the forests and
streams of the Appalachian region.
Second: To exploit the resources
and potentialities of this wonderful
mountain empire.
Third: To demonstrate the prog
ress of the South in agriculture, min
ing, manufacturing and commercial
pursuits.
The keynote of the Appalachian Elk
position, that which differentiates it
from all other displays of this charac-
ter is its demonstrative nature It
proposes, from the use of actual OBJ
ject lessons, to show the Importance
of conserving the natural resources,
and of developing them where now
the force of exploitation has been
but feebly exerted.
1t is to the interest of the South
generally and to posterity, that the
extensive forest resources and the wa
ter power originating in the Appala-
chians be forever guarded against de-
pletion, and creating of sentiment to
that end is one of the primary objects
of the Exposition.
The Appalachian Exposition covers
in its scope eight of the most impor
tant Southern States, and its POSSIBLE
tiles are unlimited.
1t will be one of the objects of this
enterprise to demonstrate to the farm
ers, cotton planters, and to the world
at large, the possibilities of making
farming pay without dependence on
a money crop, such as cotton and to-
bacco. With this end in view a great
agricultural display building will be
constructed which will hold exhibits
from the mountain portions of the
eight states included in the Southern
Appalachian country.
Persons not acquainted with the
Blue Ridge and connecting ranges of
mountains have little conception of
the forage, food and fruit potentiali-
ties OF this region. Buried gold, met
aphorically speaking, lies waiting for
the men earnest enough and energet-
ic enough to dig it out.
First among the assets of the Appa-
lachian region are its timber stores.
HardWoods are present In abundance,
as yet hardly touched by the timber
man, Offering immense financial re-
turns under scientific and preserva-
tive forestation The Appalachian
Exposition is the one agency at work
to remedy the evils that exist in the
present methods of exploitation and
development of timber resources.
and to increase the returns from and
insure the protection of the hard
wood forests
The mining of coal is a present
great and a greater future industry
of this section.
That the movement for a great APP
.palaehian Exposition was inaugurated
lat the most opportune time to become
an agency for good to the whole peo-
pie is proven by the widespread in
terest in the question of the conser-
walton of our natural resources and
in the South as a new land of oppOr-