Arizona republican., 1899-07-01
ON THE up GRADE
Promising Movement 10 Advertise
 Phoenix in inc East.

A year ago a committee of fifty cit
 izens and property owners tried t. form an association for the betterment
 of the Salt River valley. They ap-
 pied to the board of supervisors tJ
 appoint an immigration commissi ion CT
 under the law then in force, the under
 standing being that the salary of the
 commissioner should be turned over
 to the association to be app'ied to the
 payment of the expense of advertising 2
 the valley. The association agreed Io
 raise additional funds out of which should be paid. No action was taken
 on the application for the reason that
 the board was then engaged in res'st- ing an action by Major T. c. Jordan.
 who had been appointed by the gov
 ernor, to collect his salary Super visor Norton and the other members of the board were favorable to the ap-
 plication, but to grant it would De practically a confession of judgm sn. in the Jordan suit
 The immigration commission law was repealed by the last legislature and immediately afterward following the suggestion of Supervisor Norton and hLs associates, MT J. c. Adams dTafled A bill which has been enacted into the present inn law. Under it the board of supervisors may appoint a comm .s- sioner at a salary of $500 a year and appropriate $2,500 year for the puT- pose of advertising the county. The matter has been taken up again by Mir tion to the board to carry out the law The signers of the petition are also at the same time subscribers to a fund to the appropriation made by the county board, and they constitute themselves members of an association for carrying out the purpose of the law
 The petition has been circulated by MT. Adams only two afternoons and 1t has been received in such a manner as to leave no doubt that the taxpay- CTS of the. county are fully awake to the necessity of advertising the city and valley. Twenty-two subscrip- ions have been received amounting to S1, ,350, an average of $61.50. Beside what has already bsen obtained MT Adams is confident that the s. F. P $ P. and the M. & P. railroads NIIu Iu6lI COnlSCLfOlS VIII 39cl l subscribe $250 He has been told | Oy several persons that they may be l counted upon for subscriptions of not | ess than $50 each, so that altogether | Is a result of a few hours work there l $ already not less than S2,000 of the | fund tn sight
 The object of the association IS to | put every dollar of this fund and the | appropriation into postage | stamps and and printers ink An l ,ther of the proposed benefits to the | .ounty is 8 regularly established com nercial body with a sscratary and | leadquarters, the expenses of which | will be paid by the monthly dues Of I by the members of the association.
 The following is a copy of the petl- ion to the board of supervisors and ist of subscribers to 1t and to the fund:
 We, the undersigned citizens of he county of Maricopa, respectively equest that the board of supervisors f this county shall appoint an imml- rant commissioner and appTOpri- te funds for the maintenance of this flee in accordance with an act of the egislature passed the last session; nd
 We. the undersigned citizsns of h:s county, do hereby subscribe the mounts set opposite our names 70 rouide fund to be used in connec- ion with the amounts appropriated y the supervisors for the purpose Of dvertising Maricopa county.