The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1911-01-11
ANNUAL MEETING
Virginia Tennessee Industrial
and Agricultural Association.

do hereby memorabilia the General As
scmbiy of the State Of Virginia and tho
General Assembly OF tho State of Tennes.
see To enact a law authorizing counties in
the State OF Virginia and counties in The
state of Tennessee to make appropriation
or appropriations FOR available funds in
hand to be used for the purpose of cx.
plotting the resources of such counties.
* ! funds to be handled through what
ever Responsible agency may be selected
by said counties taking advantage OF the
privilege accorded them.
Resolved, further That In making
said expenditures no individual or partic-
ulnr district Of any county participating
in this advertising campaign shall profit
directly through the use Of said public
funds, but we respectfully sugGcs, tina,
such authorizing act as we petition for
shall provide for broad and comprchcn-
sivc method that will benefit all alike.
Resolved, That copies Of these rcso-
buttons be directed to the representatives
aud senators in the General Assemblies of
the two states from the counties partici-
pa,ins in this association work, and that
they be and are, hereby requested to in
troduce bill before their respective as.
semblics covering the main conditions set
forth above
The meeting adopted the further reso-
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Agricultural and Industrial Association
in meeting assembled that cordial en-
dorsement is given the proposition to
establish great highway between Mcm-
phis, u mn, aud Bristol, Tenn. Va. be-
iicving that such road will not only
greatly enhanes values along its entire
line. but tina, it will tend to bring the
people of West Virginia and Northern
Mississippi and Eastern Arkansas into
closer relations and iato better under
standing of the splendid counties en-
braced in what is known AS upper East
Tennessee
The association further provided in
resolutions adopted as follows:
Resolved, by this association that the
county secretaries be. and are, instructed
10 request OF the land and Industrial de
par,ments of the railroads operating in
the territory to forward the address of
said secretaries literature issued from
time to time by said railroads pertaining
to people who are seeking farms, timber
or mineral lands in the Appalachian re-
gion, and that secretaries be urged To
communicate a, once 10 prospectors
whose MINES may thus be obtained. Civ
ing all information relative to their par
ticiilar counties
Relative to the proposed Panama expo
sition, the association adopted the follow
ing in favor Of New Orleans as the place
for snch an exposition:
Whereas, a great international expo.
sition will be held in the United States
during the year 1918 for the purpose of
celebrating the completion Of the Panama
canal, and
Whereas, the city of New Orleans il
before the senate and house of represen
t"tives at Washington, pctitioning that
body TO name the Crescent City a, the
place for holding said exposition, and
Whereas. If the city of New Orleans
is selected as the site OF this great inter
nationa! exposition it will bring through
Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee
thousands and thousands of people who
have not heretofore had any opportunity
to see this region or TO enter into even
the most casual investigation as to its
magnificent resources, therefore. be it
Resolved. That this association, rep
rcsen,ing men in all lines OF business in
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