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Our farms and rural communities afford the best homes and most 

 profitable farming in the country. Our lands offer better investments 

 and surer returns. With your assistance, farmers and land-owners, we 

 will make these facts known to the crowded agriculturalist of the east, 

 the blizzard-tossed farmer of the north, and the drought-ridden strug- 

 glcr of the west — increasing the demand for and value of every acre of 

 tillal)le land in the State. 



Thus, too, shall we make known to the world that while wc produce 

 three-fourths of the world's output of zinc, of the forty counties under- 

 laid with zinc ore, the mining thereof is extensively followed in but five 

 or six, and even in these exceptional opportunities for investment are 

 offering. 



Government tests and reports shows our quarries produce the finest 

 building stone in the country, but this fact is scarcely known outside of 

 the State. We must demonstrate it to the world. 



With the support of loyal Missourians, we will bring to the atten- 

 tion of capital the vast deposits of glass, sand, onyx, coal, iron and other 

 commodities, awaiting only the touch of enterprise and capital. 



In gum wood, which grows and is milled only in this Slate, is the 

 greatest substitute for mahogany. This, with our other lum1:)er inter- 

 ests, must be exploited fully. 



In health and pleasure resorts we rival the seashore. To insure popu- 

 larity and patronage for these, the world at large need only know of the 

 health-giving properties of their waters and air; the facts we will make 

 known, with the proper assistance of those interested. 



Our great educational institutions must be fully exploited and our 

 wonderful public school system fully exemplified. To do this success- 

 fully we must have the assistance not only of the educators of the State, 

 but of all those interested in education. 



I might go on citing fields wherein specific benefits will be derived 

 by our people and the State from this exposition, but have already occu- 

 pied more than my allotted time. 



Perhaps a word of explanation is due as to why no greater progress 

 has been made to date by the Missouri Commission. 



Very soon after the Commission was first appointed, they began to 

 arrange for the preliminary work and had accomplished a great deal along 

 this line, when it became apparent that the Fair would of necessity be 

 postponed. We then deemed it wise to postpone further work for the 

 time being. 



We have now again actively taken up the work, and in a short time 

 all preliminary arrangements will be completed, heads of departments 

 appointed and active work begin in earnest. The Commission from 



