The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1892-07-02
Am Address.

PRESCOTT, Ariz., June %, '92
To the People of Arizona:
On the first day of May, 1898,
will be opened in the City Of Chi
cago, under the name of the
"World's Columbian Exposition" "
the greatest exhibition of the in
dustries and manufactures of man
and the productions of the soil,
mine and sea that the earth has
ever seen assembled. Through it,
every civilized nation, as well as
every State and Territory of the
Union, will strive to show the op-
portunities and inducements offer
ed by each to secure the invest
ment of capital and attract the
home-seeker. Keen-eyed wealth
and intelligent labor will utilize
the Exposition to ascertain where
their welfare will be most advanced
by becoming interested, while by
it to every State and Territory is
given, as never before, the means
of showing every attraction it pos
sesses to bring to it the capitalist
or emigrant.
With an area equal to that of
Italy with its population of thirty
millions, while possessing the abil-
ity to produce every fruit and grain
that mature under italian suns;
with the valleys of the Gila and
Salt rivers equal in fertility and
greater in extent than the Valley
of the Nile-"the granary of the
world" with coal fields reaching
from the Utah line to within the
northern confines of the San Carlos
reservation and covering an area
greater than those which have
made Pennsylvania one of the rich
est commonwealth of the Repub-
lie; with mines in whose treasure
cells lies hidden every mineral that
finds value in the minds of men;
with natural curiosities peculiar to
it alone; with the ever present re-
lies of a civilization, the oldest on
the North American continent,
Arizona possesses every attribute
to attract and enlist the assistance
of capital and emigration in Great
ing within its boundaries a rich
and populous state. Unknown
and unrecognized, for the first time
it is given the means to make its
resources and its possibilities ap-
preciated. With intelligent and
earnest effort, its exhibit at Chi
cago should be second to
none in attractiveness, variety,
novelty and richness-an exhibit
that will advertise to the world
as nothing else can the certainty
that, at no distant day within its
boundaries men will become pros
porous and rich by avalling them
selves of the wealth that nature
has lavished on it. Selfshness
and sentiment combine to demand
that this be done. To accomplish
it the last Legislature appropriated
$4,000, to be apportioned among
the several counties. Liberal as
this amount is, it must be aug
mented by individual effort, before
justice can be done fully to the
Territory by an exhibit proper
tionate to the variety and wealth of
its resources. Already one county
(Maricopa), recognizing the ad-
vantages and benefits that will ac-
crue to it from a full presentation
of its resources, is engaged in rails
ing from individual and public
sources $4,000 in addition to the al
lowance given it by the Territory.
Every other county should follow
its example as far as the ability
to do so permits.
Each should present its
chief attractions fully, and con-
spicuously, and in manner that
will command. This can only be
done by unity of action among it's
citizens, and the raising of funds to
see that the best exhibits are OBJ
tanned for exposition purposes. In
each county an organization should
be perfected to see that this is
done. Such organizations are being
effected in every other Territory
and State in the Union, and great
good is thereby being accomplish
ed. Where the conditions are such
that organizations as suggested are
impracticable, the Board of Super
visors can and should see to it that
the interests of the county are not
neglected. Whether the effort to
promote the interests of a county
be by public organizations, official
action, or individual effort, the
Board of Worlds Fair Managers
will at all times render every as
sistance in their power by active