Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-05-26
AT THE FAIR.
What Arizona Has at San
 Francisco.
A GRAND SHOWING MADE.
California Ranchers Apprehen- sive ofa Coming Rival in Ari-
 zona. First Prizes.

Special Correspondence to the CITIZEN To most people "Arizona" is a syn ) onym for desert. When we hear I : spoken, immediately there pass before us in ominous procession, like the evi spirits in Macbeth, Gila monsters, cen tipedes, thorny cacti, and wild and say
 age herds of horses and cattle with theil rough and fantastically costumed at , tendants. And over all this, we imagint a scorching heat beating down as though , the whole atmosphere, acting as huge lens or burning glass, had gathered al
 the suns rays, only to again throw then
 forth with redoubled force upon the al
 ready sizzling territory and killing al
 vegetable growths except that of the
 cactus and sage brush. Such is Ariz
 ona as pictured to us, but how different
 is the reality.
 | The territory, officially. has no exhibit
 at the California International Mid win
 ter exposition now being held in Sar
 Francisco, and its representation is en
 tirely due to the enterprise and gener
 osity of the citizens of Maricopa coun-
 ty. The display, almost in its present entirety, was collected originally for the Chamber of Commerce of Phoenix. Mr.
 Bruce Perley, it's secretary. was request ed by that body to superintend the en-
 large gemeut and removal of the display and its proper exhibition at the fair, and
 was given but two weeks time in which to accomplish his work. The shortness of the time, as we'll as the smallness of the appropriation, $500, prohibited him from making the exhaustive exbibit that he desired to do, but nevertheless he set to work, and the result IS a display sec- ond, in quality, to none on the grounds. | It proves conclusively that Arizona can, by the aid of irrigation, be made to blossom-and profitably too-like 8 | flower garden.
 l California, long boasting preeminence | over Florida an d the whole world in the production of citrus fruits, has been | compelled to admit, in her near neigh bor. worthy rival, and, too, one dan | gerous to her ng-enjoyed monopoly. | The Washington Navel oranges of Arlz- | ona not only won the first prize for fla | vor, color, size and general excellence, | but they have the further distinction of | having been gathered, fully metured, | in the middle of November, two whole 1 months before those of this state were l ripe. 1t can be readily understood that California growers of citrus fruits view | with rising apprehension an adjoining | section of country that can raise a su- perior quality and earlier maturing orange than they car. It would seem | like bringing cosls to Newcastle h sd not I the visiting fruit completely burnt up | the home production.
 But oranges are, by no means. all that | the territory can grow. Tastefully ar | ranged on shelves about the walls are numerous jars containing large variety of the many different products of Salt | river val ley. Ameng them may be | mentioned peaches, pears, plums, apples, crab-apples, apricots, grapes, nectarines, dates, raisins, quinces, lemons, pruDes, | olives, pOmegranates, figs, straw berries, | sun dried fruits of all kinds, almonds, peanuts, honey, green peas, string beans, pota,oes, wheat, barley, beets, cucum- 1 bers snd sugarcane with its finished | product There are two or more varie- ties of each thing bamed. Of oranges | there are ten and of grapes there are about fifteen. All the specimens are large, clear and perfect. One bunch of sweet potatoes weighs forty pounds, and a pumpkin ninety-five pounds in weight captured first prize.
 | Another object of pride to Arizona is a large bunch of dates. Although there are several of these exhibited at the | fair, this particular bunch IS the only one on the grounds that was picked in its completely ripened state.
 Standing against the wall near the entrance IS clean, tightly compressed
 bale of aifalfa hay. This, az a placard
 informs one, WAS baled by steam baler turning out a bale each minute, or thirty tons each day. The ground on
 which this was grown yields six. crops a year and from eight to twelve tons to
 the acre, the value being about twelve
 dollars per ton.
 On the central table there are five or six small tubes filled with earth taken
 from the Salt valley, and on all the
 tables and about the entire section are
 to be found a great many photographs entitled, "Views in Salt River Valley
 and throughout Arizona" They are
 excellently executed and convey inter-
 esting and new ideas to outsiders, con-
 cerning the great fertility of the terfI-
 tory and the enterprise of its citizens
 A large map, conspicuously displayed. shows one a mountainous section of country interspersed by many valleys
 and crossed by numerous canals and
 and waterways. This is the great basin I @f tl Co1t oil I pamphlets which are distribu ed in great numbers at the booth give to one all the information desired about it. These little books are arranged in questions and their answers, and tell in
 thls novel way all about the land, occupied and otherwise, its products, l and all others matters that might inter-
 est the intending settler.
 | A large register is kept and all visitors
 are requested t0 sign their names and addresses Among the recent arrivals from Arizona may be mentioned
 Robert A. Helm, George N.
 Ward, F.. s. Small and wife of Tucson.
 W B Hastings, Mir and Mrs B N Pratt
 T c. Wright, N. Kelly, E. E. Hernick, Z.
 H. Taylor and Tom Tee (Chinese) of
 Phoenix.
 Alex. Durand of Tombstone; Charles
 Davison, A. P. Snowman of Mesa; J.
 B. Hoope, Mrs. E. l.. Hill. and Mrs.
 Will Lutley of Prescott; and MT. and
 Mrs. Tom Davis, Mrs. B. E. Lewis,
 Henry Schaefer, l. H. Libold, and
 Mark Ezekiels and others from other
 parts of the territory.
 People from all parts of the
 world have left their sigma
 tdres, and as the most of these have
 carefully examined the exhibit, it is
 safe to say that better advertisement
 could not be devised for Arizona, or any
 section of country, than to be creditably [ represented at great exposition. And while 1t is greatly to be regretted that the territory, as territory, made DC exhibition at the MiGwinter fair, il must not be forgotten that great credit is due to the citizens of Maricopa county