Bisbee daily review., 1904-01-16
WORLDS FAIR
 CHAIRMAN HERE
MAJOR A. ]. DORIAN, PRESIDENT
 OF ARIZONA COMMISSION.
Comes to 6isbee to Secure Exhibits for the Worlds Fair-The Copper Queen Making Up a Fair Exhibit. Native Ore Wanted.

A quiet little gentleman, unassum ing in manners, but bronzed with years in the mining fields of Arizona, came quietly into Bisbee on Thursday evening, and registered at the Cop per Queen Hotel. His coming had been announced some time ago in the columns )f the Review. It was Ma jor A J. Doran. the president of the Board of Worlds Fair Commissioners of Arizona, a body of three of the best known and practical men in the Territory of Arizona. appointed by Governor Alexander O. Brodie, to pre- pare and take care of the interests of Arizona at the St. Louis Exposition. The commission is composed of Ma ior Dorm, Robert Leatherwood and the Hon. B. A. Packard. Governor Brodie is ex-officio chairman of the commission.
 Had His Excellency, the Governor
 searched the Territory over with a fine tooth comb, it would not have bee possible for him to have chosen
 commission to carry out the provis
 ions of the act of the Territorial legis | lature, than the persons named above
 Major A. J. Doran is one of the best posted mining men in this section Of 1 the country, as is also Mir. Leather | wood, and none are more familiar generally with all sections of it than B. A. Packard Ever since the ac' of creating the commission, these gen tlemen have been strenuously push ing forward thew oTk Ofobt aiming ex | hibits for thefa ir. The illness of MT. Packard, much to his own person al regret, as well as the two other | members Of the board, has necessarily detailed 10 Major Doran and Mir. Leatherwood what would have been the work Of Mir Packard. and it is be- cause of Mir Packard's confinement to the sick room that he is here. glad ly to take up the work of his compan- ion
 The object of the commission, pri- marily and objectively, is to secure such exhibits as will best exemplify the resources from the standpoint of mining. horticulture. agriculture and education. The task of gathering these is all about completed, except in so far as appertains to Cochise county. Five thousand pounds of the finest apples and fruits that were ever raised in any country on earth, are already on cold storage in the city of St. Louis. awaiting the time when they will be .aken out and placed on exhi- bition, to surprise the people of the world with what We can raise in this land of the tarantula and gila mon- sters. as cur Eastern friends would have us believe. Lemons, lines and oranges from the vicinity of Phoenix are in abundance, all selected, and it is fact that these grown there are the best koown fruits of America As a matter of fact, the orange is tested by the oil in the rind, and Arizona oranges are said to contain this in quantity and quality not found else where. The commission is in re- ceipt of a letter from Mir Taylor, the Director General of Exhibits, request ing the procuring of several date palms, which are grown to perfection only near Yuma, and the commission have procured them for Mr. Taylor
 Major Doran called yesterday upon MT. Walter Douglas, the Superintend- ent or the Copper Queen Mining Com pany and made known his errand to this district. As is the well known