Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-09-06

the entire exterior of the fair.
 The Pennsylvania and New York
 buildings, two of the largest and
 finest on the grounds, had been
 given as land mark by which the
 Arizona building might be found, and it did not take long to discover
 them. The building, owned and occupied joiutly by Arizona, New
 Mexica amt Oklahoma, bears about
 the same resemblance or compari-
 sou to either of them, as the little
 brown house on the south side of
 the plaza does to the court house.
 Situated, a. it is, directly tn the rear
 of the two state buildings men
 toned above, the visitor feels, a. he
 approaches 1t, as though he were
 getting into the back yard of New
 York or Pennsy ylvana, until he gets
 close enough to read the signs
 placed over the three respective
 doors of the building Arizona,
 New Mexico Oklahoma If the
 visitor halls from either of the
 above territories, he must experience
 a satisfied feeling of being at home.
 as soon as he sights the above
 legend, and his footsteps hasten to
 enter its portals To say that the
 building, in which the three tcrri-
 tories have joint interest, IS the
 most insignificant on the grounds.
 but feebly expresses the relation it
 bears to the others. The wonder
 k, after looking at the other build
 ings, and then at thIs, that the
 authorities ever permitted the
 building to be erected. The feeling of disgust at the sight of the build ing is heightened, Co an Arizouan. when he enters and witnesses the absolute nakedness of the interior
 of it. New Mexico and Oklahoma
 each have made an attempt to
 place some of their products on
 exhibition in their respective parts of the bnilding. The first floor
 room ol the Arizona side contains a
 flat desk in the center, a few chairs
 and a sofa, while its walls are GOV
 cred with Navajo blankets, al. for sale. In the northeast corner oi the room Is a stuffed sheep. while on the
 south wall hangs a very finely exc cuted portrait of General Crook, painted by Miss Blake. of Prescott. This portrait Is the only redeeming feature about the building In the
 lone room of the second story IS a piano or organ and a center table On the latter are three albums con. taining pictures of private resi- dences m the territory, and prob ably some public buildings, together with views of Arizona scenery. The reader Is left to conjecture the i'm pression that the above display will make on the visitor who has never seen Arizona. While seated in the building, a party of ladies from
 Phenix visited it, and the expres- sions of disgust made by them were vehement and forcible.
 The responsibility for the failure to make a proper exhibit of cereals, fruit, etc, must rest largely with the citizens of the Salt river valley. as they hold the key to the agricul- tural possibilities of the territory. The territorial commission Is cred ited with appropriating Sl,2OO for a Worlds Fair edition of the Phenix Gazette. Every one knows that such a paper, if ever published, would be devoted very largely to setting forth the resources and pos abilities of the Salt river valley for fruit growing and farming. A Worlds Fair visitor, who might chance to get a copy of such paper, would naturally inquire why such a section with such wonderful resources and possibilities, did not have some of the products on ex- hibition. The question is very pertinent one too. Why is it that the citizens of the Salt river valley, which Is by far the largest and most agricultural valley in Arizona, did not have sufficient pub lie spirit and enterprise to forward for exhibition samples of their pro dncts 2 The question is sull more pertinent, in the face of the fact that they have, for years, been try ing to work up a boom for the sale of their lands, while nearly every other quarter section in the valley is for sale. Delaware sends a ear load of her fruits there every third ! pr fourth day. As soon as that on becomes little stale. it k 1 Jumped on the market and sold, | md it is replaced by a fresh car | oad.
 California, Oregon. Iowa and | many other states operate in the iame way. Arizona, that boasts of Ter fruits being three or four weeks 'arlier thon California or any other Dlace, has not a single peach, pear. plum, apple, grape, orange, or spec men or sample of any ether fruit ,n exhibition. Not a jar of any lind of fruit is to be seen, either. n fact so far as the Worlds Far Is Arizona Is capable only 'f raising cactus, that being the nl ly vegetable product to be seen. While, as previously stated, her mineral exhibit is highly creditable, qualled by few states or territories. indeed by any, and certainly sur assed by none, there is absolutely othing to show that she possesses whatever in her soil. Verse than folly, the reckless expen- iture of the pubic funds in appro- rating them for the publication | [ a Worlds Fair edition of paper { , set forth the agricultural re- 'urces ofthe territory, must be ap- aren't to all in the face of these | cts, It has very much the same ! Dpearance that many other acts of c IT Salt River valley neighbors we. In that they imagine their tie mountain girt valley comprises i' e whole of Arizona, that IS worth a That the "outjide" a unties are mere dependencies n lich must pay them tribute, on occasions, their citizens being ly barbarians, at best, except when V Dcing to the music of the Phenix e, mpkin vine. The territory is He'd on to pay their advertising n 1, while they do not possess suffi- u nt enterprise to furnish a pump ul