Arizona weekly citizen., 1893-09-16
ARIZONA EXHIBIT.
A Close Inventory of What 1t
Has to Show.
A Preamble Creating the Appropria-
ton that Reads Well
Today.

| Inasmuch as the Worlds Fair b
been SO enchantingly described
newspaper reporters and supplements
in pamphlet form by others, it r
manned for Rand, McNally & Co.,
isue a hand book an accurate index
everything within the "White City
and how the visitor may see it to til
best advantage. We have examine
this guide with view to seeing what
said of Arizona's display, its "silve
ribbed mountains" its boundless wealt
of cereals, fruit, and all else entitlin
the Territory to become a twinklin
star IN the galaxy of States, and nc
finding Arizona mentioned and nc
wishing to give it up so, we tried agai
with tie same result, and being a
Arizonan, as We supposed, We conclude
there was no such place and consequent
no exhibit, when all the sunshine in GU
nature grew strangely dark.
Since the return of Alonzo Bale
those somber clouds are dissipated
however, we can not cay with siiye
! lining, so far are as his description o
our thirty thousand dollar exhibit is con
cerned, which like the beverage demon
peel ard water) described by Dickens
is not much unless you make believe I
good deal. When In plain language w
expresse our doubt as to his Statement
he referred US to Ex-Governor Tritle as {
| corroboratlve witness, and to clinch the
matter suggested that we swear him b!
telegraph at the Chicago end OF tn,
L no lyonnc FOL W nd NJ
| the exhibit, fearful that somebody may
steal 1t. He, however, need not feal
the COMMISSION of a petty larceny fol
! the reason that the 'exhiblt could not
be spouted for enough to keep body and
soul together in Chicago for lunar
month.
Robert McBroop, another Globeite
has recently returned from Chicago and
counts the articles displayed in the
Arizona building on his finger ends and
corrobOrates the following statement of
Bailey, and adds his omission of bow
and quIver full of arrows; otherwise he
says Bailey is scrupulousIy correct.
Here il BaIley's description OF Ari-
zona's exhibit:
'rhe building is estimated to cost
$4,000. This was ascertained by inquiry
from practical architects and compared
with tie costs Of other state bui dings.
The entire building is divided in three
sections and occupied by Arizona, New
Mexico and Oklahoma.
"The Arizona department contains
four Navajo blankets, tackled on the
wall, which ara evidently the property
of individuals as they are for sale; one
is marked sold The wall is further
adorned by crayon portrait OF Gen'I
Geo. Crook, (the property of Mrs. L. j.
Butler and is Cor sale), a crayon por-
trait of ex-Gov. Tritle. and five chairs,
a desk, a table, a register, and the
Arizona newspapers Oh file; also a rug
in one corner, presumably the skin OF
a mountain lion.
''In the second story, which is set
apart as reception room, are several
chairs, lounge and piaDo-all rented
property. But people viewing with
disgust the vacancy Of the former room,
seldom reach the latter; hence You can
say it is almost unknown. In front of
of the Arizona department is one cactus,
about 10 feet high, and one piece of
petrified waod.
Oklahoma and New Mexico, the ad-
joining rooms, are filled to overflow
ing with the products Of their respec-
tive Territories.
The mineral exhibit of Arizona is ne
plus ultra none better in the mines ard
mining building. The majority of the
mineral exhibit is private. The Fores-
try eqhib.t is as follows:
One piece of pine log, 3 feet long 2
feet in diameter, al exhibit board, about
3 feet wide and five feet long, upon
which is tackled few mouldings. A
photograph of same, about 12x15 inches.
A notice board upon which is the follow
ing incription.
ARIZONA,
Generally called the treeless desert,
contains nearly two million acres of
tim Der like this, almost untouched by
the axe" Your observer looked the
Fair over and failed to find any mora
than is related.
From the above inventory it viii be
seen that the entire exhibit should not
have cost the Territory to exceed four
or five thousand dollars 10 legitimate
expenses including AriZona's share of
the cost of the building and transpor-
tation charges on mineral exhibits.
Not only is Arizona out of pocket S30,
900, but interest besides at the rate of 5
per cent. per aDnum, which would
amount to an additional $4,000, the
Conds running twenty years. LII this
was all that we lost on the speculation
we might count it as valuable, though
dearly bought experience, but the frlt-
terlug away to be charitable of the
entire appropriation is not to be COM
pared in its disastrous effects with the
black eye the Territory will receive by
the impression left on every persons
mind, who enters the Arizona building,
that the stories of it being a trackless
except for the Apaches and
coyotes in 1t. is gospel truth.
What must be the feeling of the Wis
itor to the Fair, who having previously
read the act of the Sixteenth Legislature
making the appropriation for display
of Arizona's products, scans the interior
of the Arizona department? The I'M
pressive preamble to thst act reads.
WHEREAS, The Congress of the United
States has provided, by An Act proved
April 18th, 1890, for celebrating the
lOuT DuuUItulu anniversary VI thC
discovery of America by Christopher
by holding an international
exhibition of arts, industries, manufac-
lures and the products of TIE soil, mine
and sea, in the city of CHICAGO, in the
State of Illinois, in the year 1898, and
WHEREAS, 1t is of great Importance
that the natural resources, industrial
and general progress of
the Territory of Arizona should be
fully and creditably displayed to the
world at the said Exposition"
The Legislature that enacted the law
is at fault in not making it incumbent
Cd the commissioners to place before
the Arizona department statue OF
Abundance, with a horn of plenty in
each hand, instead of the wIthered and
f9rbid6ing cactus stick erected, to in
dictate, we presume, the poverty OF
ArizGna's soil.-Silver Belt.
IL SnouId be IN Every house
}. L. Wilson, on Clay street, SharpsS
burg Pa, snys he will not be without
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Consump-
tor, Coughs and Colds, that it cured
hia wife who WAS threatened with pneu-