Arizona silver belt., 1893-12-30
REPORT OF FuE WORRIES FsaR coM.
 PENSIONERS.

MIssIONERS.
 What pufports to he tho final report
 of the Arizona Worlds Fair oommis
 sioncrs is published in the Arizonr
 Enterprise Of Dec. 24th We uso thc
 phrase what purports to be" advised. ly, us the only financial statement made
 in the Enterprise is that covering the
 receipts and disbursements on account
 Of the mineral exhibit, comprising less
 than one half of the total expenditures
 from Arizuna's Worlds Fair fund.
 However we find tho omitted data
 published in the Arizona Republican
 and Phoenix Herald of Dec. 23d. Why
 tho Enterprise withheld it ia mex-
 plained, unlesss it bo that Che figures
 too plainly shows the misrepresentation
 of the funds.
 The statement of the disbursements
 for the mineral exhibit is amply suli-
 eient, however, to prove thata large part
 of the appropriation was frittered away.
 Tho cost of collecting the mineral ex-
 hibits was S4,2ll.03 freight on same, Sl, ,2Si. Ss--total, $5, 495.9I. Cost of
 installation, salary and transportation of agent and commissioner, S6, 647. .s1;
 W. K. Meade, travelling expenses on shipment of oros S92O; ". c. Barnes, ditto, S80l which shows that the OK penditnres on account of the mineral exhibits, aside from the cost of colleo- ton and freight to Chicago reached the extrayagant sum of s7,272. 4, making the total disbursements for minerals SIP, 75S32.
 1t should be remembered that almost all the ores and minerals displayed were gretuitous donations, and in addition. the Copper Queen Company generously pald half the salary of an assistant at the mineral exhibit during the entire six months of the Exposition.
 We glean from the statement pub. hshed in the Republican and Herald that the Fair Commissioners drew mileage and per diem aggregating | SIl02.44. Among the benefciaries of | this money is W C. Barnes, who served only portion of the time, and sue | ceeded w O. o'Nein, SI, 392 63 | (o'Noill received S507 3W;s. p. Bohan | (who served only portion of the time. 1 succeeding W. J. Branuon) s1. .272 70 (Braanen received S7ll.7D; R. C. | Brown, SS74, 15f ". X. Meade, s675 Geo. F. Coates, S6OO; The Arizona Gazette was paid Sl 200 for 1000 copies of it's Worlds Fair edition, while 57, oOo copies of the creditablo publica- ] ton, Arizona, by T. R. sorin, cost only S3Ol,O9,
 The cost of the Arizona building is stated at s, 249 33; furniture and fix. lures Give chairs, a desk, table, rug and |. register, and rented piano, chairs and ounge) S360. 51 maintenance of build ng s767.
 Wool cost s42 .3O-the commissions ITS should have bought more, as there vas not enough to pull oyer the eyes of Arizona people.
 \. $. Berray, Gila county's comnis. ioner, expended of the appropriation { '2lS.65, the commissioner of Coohise ounty, S349,9o, and of Graham eoun- Y sa48.14. The display of ores from hese three counties were the best in .rizona's exhibit.
 Ibere was originally appropriated or Maricopa county Sl ,040, all of { ihieh was expended and not cabbage c talk or kernel of grain to show for it. special allowance of S943.52 was a subsequently, made to Maricopa. a The furniture in the Arizona build c lg, which is alleged to have cost 36O.5l, at the close of the Exposition. as sold for S21 and as nothing is said i, bout the building, we presume that d -as thrown in. i The s3o, 900 bonds appropriated by a ie legislature stand as a debt against e z ie Territory; they run twenty years g nd draw interest at the rate of , per II ant per Rnnum, making an additional h 30, 900, which the Territory will be n llled upon to pay for the Worlds e air experience The money is. . though lost to sipbt to memory dear ,,