Weekly Phoenix herald., 1884-08-14
sEcsE EfARY's REPORT
cf Progress of the Arizona
 Industrial Exposition.
PHoEN1x. 4. T., Aug. 9 1884

PHOENIX, 4. T., Aug. 1884, In compliance with an order frrn : the B ard of Directors of the Ari znna Industrial Exposition Associs lion, the following is resp, cifull, submitted as showing of the worl done. plans and intentions of tn
 Association.
 Ou the 29th of April, 1884, a meet
 ing took place in Phoenix, at whicl a committee of three wls appointct to draft and mail circulars showip! the nature of the intended move, ,anc calling for meeting nn May 10th 10 prepare for organizing q Tcrrito' rial Fair Association. Al his meet ing Wm. Isaac, E. Ro- d, Simon Novinger, Lincoln Fowler, Wm. A. Hancock, c. W. Ingalls,, c. H. Gray t. B. Kirkland, Hosea Greenhaw and Philip K. Hickey were chosen d committee If ten to incorporate uccoIdirg to law, ard a preamble and T. solution were adopted rccit- Ing that intention, and were indorsed by 56 names as in favor oi the move ment.
 The Committee prepared articles of iBcorpera ion, which were duly signed and acknowledge in tripll- cate, nn Nj y 14th, and one copy filed with tl.c Secretary of the Terrl- tory and another with the County Recorder, and call was made for d meeting of the stockholders on Jure 21st, at which meeting the subscrip- ton lists were sull out, and-a second meeting WAS called for July 23d, to elect Board of Directors.
 Al tue meeting on July 23d, 194 shares were represented, and the re-. mainder of the capital stock uniaken was subscribed for by Trustee elect NJ. H. Sherman, to wit: 4645 shares. Shares were taken as follows: Prescott. .... 30 Mesa CIiy.... 10 Maricopa. ..35 Phoenix. .23O
 A Board of seven Directors, coh> sitting of w. " Jones, Simon Nov Inger, J. Y. T. 6mith, F. D. Wells. R. E. Harrington, 5 D. Lount and Geo. E. Loring, were elected 10 serve until January 1, 1885.
 The Directors qualified aLd then elected W. ". Jones, President; Philip K. Hickey, Secretary, and NJ. H. Sherman, Treasurer. A commit tee consisting of J T. Alsap, J. E. Wharton, Ira Stroud, J. J Baker and J Y T Smith was appc inted 10 draft and submit By.Laws.
 This was done, and on July 26 Board of Directors met to receeive report which was regularly adopted and secretary ordered to pu blish call for meeting of the stockhold- CTS for August 18th 1881 to adopt by- Laws.
 Also to publish a notice calling for Bids or proposals to sell or lease land to the Association, within a ra- dius of three miles of the center of Phoenix
 The following Vice Presidents were then chosen.
 Maricopa county,-J Y T Smith,
 Yayapai county-T J Butler, Ed Wells, J c Campbell, CP Head. v Mohave countJ-W H Hardy, MT Wilder.
 Pima county-W " Hayward, c D POston, E N Fish, Samuel Hughes
 Yuma cou"ty-O F Townsend, Samuel Purdy.
 Cochise couuty-M Stewart. T F White. Graham county-H c Hooker. J B Collins. Apache County-C T Rodgers. Gila county-A A Ward, P Brady l PinaI county P Brady, Aaron 1 Mason.
 Al the meeting on August 18th, after adoption of By-Lsws, lands will be secured or arrangements made to secure the same; time set Tor holding the Fair; superintend> snr appointed; the work commenced, which will eventually do so much Tor Arizona, in Making her resour- ces known and improving her pro- lucts and values.
 The heartIesi interest is manifest sd irom all quarters, and that ou, .zhibit will be a success, we feel as- 'ured. And that the investment in ,ur stock will be wise and pro fit Ible one. we have not a doubt, as all urr ouudi gs and other experiences ndic te and fully warrant it.
 Minerals, live stock, fowls, machi> iery, grain, fruits and in fact all ur products will be at the Fair.
 PHILIP K. HICKEY.
 Sec. A. l. E. Association