Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-06-02
THE new MEX.
IC0 OF TODAY
Will Be Made the predomnating Feature of the
Territorial Exhibit at the St. Louis
Worlds Fair.
Commission HAS DECIDED
TO ERECT A BUILDING

If the general plans ana ideas of the
New Mexico Commission for the Louis
lana Purchase Exposition at st. Louis
are carried out, the exhibit from New
Mexico will be one of which no citizen
of the territory need be ashamed. The
first meeting of the new commission
was held yesterday and after it's organ
ization by the election of Charles A.
Spiess of Las Vegas, as president; Carl
A. Dalies of Belen, vice president; w.
b. Walton of Silver City, secretary; and
Arthur Seligman of this city, treasurer,
the remainder of the meeting was nee
essarily devoted to mapping out plans
for a creditable exhibit, in a general
way, the details to be developed lat&r
on.
1t was definitely determined that New
Mexico will have building. This may
be with Arizona jointly or may not.
President Spiess was instructed to
write to the Arizona commissioners on
the subject of the two territories unit
ing in the erection of a building as it
was thought one that would be more
satisfactory could be put up by the two
jointly. However, if Arizona prefers
not to enter into such an arrangement,
New Mexico will put up a building of
its own and President Spiess was in
structed to go to ST. Louis, select a site
and make other arrangements for it.
1t was determined that the exhibit
shall be more of the New Mexico of to-
day than the New Mexico of history.
The historical features will not be neg
lacted and will be adequately shown,
but the idea of the commission is to
make more prominent, the progress, re-
sources and development of the terri
tory. Modern New Mexico will be the
general plan on which the exhibit will
be collected and displayed. The desira-
bility of New Mexico for investors and
the possible earnings of capital here
an effort will be made to attract inves-
tors.
The diversified resou1 rs Of the terri
tory will be displayed in such manner
as to make the contrasts and the va
riety striking and produce an impress
sion not easily forgotten. The advance
ment and progress of the territory in
educational lines will be made particu-
larly prominent. The work done in the
different schools and institutions will
be given much space, and there will be
a general use of photographs to show
the buildings of both public and terri
torial schools.
The commission will endeavor to inn
press upon the public that New Mexico |
Is good place for the homeseeker to
turn his attention to, and will try to
impress upon the homeseeker the possi-
bilities in farming. In agricultural
lines, fruits from San Juan County, the
Espanola and Santa Fe valleys, the
Mesilla valley, the Pecos valley and
other parts of the territory will be CIV
en- a prominent place. Grain from Taos
and Mora counties and the Rio Grande
valley will be attractively arranged.
There will be new departure in the :
matter of exhibits from this territory in
that the commission will put forth ev-
cry effort to have large and complete
exhibit of the livestock interests of New
Mexico, in sheep, CATTLE, horses and
Angora goats. This has not been at
tempted heretofore and the commission