History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . many features outdid even theCentennial at Philadelphia. The Tennes-see Centennial and International Exposi-tion at Nashville, in 1897, was anotherrevelation. Its total expenditures, fullycovered by receipts, were $1,087,;its total admissions 1,886,714. On J. Day the attendance was within afew of 100,000. The exhibits were ample,and many of them strikingly unique. Few,even at the South, believed that the South-ern States could set forth such fact that this was possible so soonaf
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . many features outdid even theCentennial at Philadelphia. The Tennes-see Centennial and International Exposi-tion at Nashville, in 1897, was anotherrevelation. Its total expenditures, fullycovered by receipts, were $1,087,;its total admissions 1,886,714. On J. Day the attendance was within afew of 100,000. The exhibits were ample,and many of them strikingly unique. Few,even at the South, believed that the South-ern States could set forth such fact that this was possible so soonafter a devastating war, which had left thesection in abject poverty, was a speakingcompliment to the land and to the energyof those developing it. The progress of most Southern communi-ties was extraordinary. Agriculture, stilltoo backward in methods and variety. 156 EXPANSION [1890 gradually improved, gaining marked im-petus and direction from the agriculturalcolleges planted in the several States by theaid of United States funds conveyed underthe Morrill acts. The abominable system. A grove of oranges and palmettoes near Ormond, Florida, of store credit kept the majority of farmers,black and white, in servitude, but was givingway, partly to regular bank credit—a greatimprovement—and partly to cash trans-actions. 1895] NEWEST DIXIE 157 Florida came to the front as a lavishproducer of tropical fruits. Winter wasrarely known there. If it paid a visit nowand then the States sugar industry madeup for the losses which frost inflicted uponher orange crop. The rich South Carolinarice plantations bade fair to be left behindby the new rice belt in Louisiana andTexas, a strip averaging thirty miles inwidth and extending from the Mississippito beyond the Brazos, 400 miles. Improvedmethods of rice farming had transformedthis region, earlier almost a waste, into oneof the most productive areas in the coun-try, attracting to it settlers from variousparts of the North and West, and evenfr
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