Arizona republican., 1893-07-18
ANOTHER SHOW For the Benefit of the Salt River Valley. The MidWinter Fair at
 San Francisco. A Project For a Huge Maricopa
 County Exhibit. The Reasons Offered Why Local Ad- vantage Should be Taken of
 the Opportunity.

The Salt River valley, is likely to be given an opportunity to partially make good the failure to take full advantage of the opportunity offered by the worlds fair for the dissemination of in- formation concerning it's resources and possibilities. A number of gentlemen are now advocating representation at the midwinter fair, which is almost cer- tain to be held at San Francisco next winter. It is remembered that great things were planned for the worlds fair. There was to be a display of fruits, cereals, vegetable, etc., such as the world had seldom seen. The time necessary for the preparation of the display was underestimated, and when the board of local managers got ready to do something, among the difficulties which confronted them was the breyity of time. Another difficulty was the underestimated expense and the lack of a sufficient apportionment for Mari copa county. Still another was, the in- lity at that time of the year to ob- tain complete variety of fruits, and still another was the supposed impOs. sibility of transporting fruit so far and delibering 1t in good order.
 It will be seen that at the time they arose, even the slightest of these Tiff culties was almost insuperable but now as to the midwinter fair none of them exist.
 There is ample time, the gentlemen who are agitatIng the matter, say; at this season ofthe year a collection may be be gun of every kind of fruit which grows in the Salt River valley with the exception of the apricot, and oppor. tunity is offered for selection of the best.
 The necessary funds for the expense of the display may be easily raised since the valley will not have 10 assist in paying the expense of any other ex- hibit, and lastly San Francisco is so much nearer than Chicago, the time is so much shorter, the route go much more direct that the transportation offers no difficulty at all except that of paying for it.
 Rch in fruits as California is the Salt River valley could present to her a reve- lation at the midwinter fair especially in the matter of pears, grapes and peaches for where else in the United States may such pears, grapes and peaches be found. Even in figs oranges and other semi-tropicsl fruits California might excel in quantity but she cer- tainly could not in quality and variety. In support of the advantages to be derived from the display, the project ors say that not only the at tention of fruit growers of Cal iiornia who are struggling along on high priced land will be called to the opportunities of the Salt River val ley, but that thousands of well to do visitors from the east to the midwinter fair will learn what they do not know, that the best fruit from the coast does not come from California.
 The midwinter fair will almost cer- tainIy be largely attended by most desirable class of patrons; those who | live in the north and east, who will naturally fly to the coast to escape the rigor of winter at home; tens of thou sands of others whose attention has
 been drawn by liberal advertising to | California for more than thirty years and by nearly everybody west of the Rocky mountains. Here, say the pro- | iectors, is a grand chance for the Salt River valley to spread herself all over the United States.