Arizona republican., 1905-04-13
The Business Men Gan Do
 Things if They Try
A BIG TERRITORIAL FAIR
It Is Now One Of the Assured Enter prises of the Future-The Project Is Business Matter of Far Reach ing Importance.

ZOlld lcIIlLOlldi 4cAl anu NiAG III oN AAAlT ing of it's nursing bottle. That's what i this is and incidentally it is a birds eye view of what happened at the | Hotel Adams cn Tuesday night and which was referred to at some length on the spur of the moment in yester- days paper. Spur of the moment" is used advisedly for the real work of the nights proceeding was the last thing that took place and it was still in progress at press time yesterday morning. It was probably nearer an all night session than any business meeting ever held in this city and the stride forward was a longer one than was ever before taken by the business men of Phoenix in the same length of time. Briefly, between dark and
 daylight Tuesday night. the business men of the city and valley resolved
 that Arizona ought to have a territorial
 fair and acting upon the resolution at once financed the enterprise by sub
 scribing $23,7OO to it's stock, which amount was increased yesterday to SPA, 45O and which MT. Adams says he is confident will be further increased
 to at least s3O,OOO.
 As was mentioned in the previous report MT. Chief Justice Kent who presided at the banquet was in the
 himself the best of toastmasters by ! confning himself strictly to the bus
 mess of the hour. but hiding every movement behind a masquerade of humor But though the program was one of complete and continued decep- 1 ton it was not dishonest. The toast master repeatedly warned the guests
 that he was deceiving them and that he was doing it at the instigation of MT. Adams whO~he had no doubt was conspiring to perpetrate some enter prise for the prospa of Phoenix. j He warned them that before the ban ] quet was over he would extOrt con-
 fession from Mir. Adams. but there were a lot of good speakers on the ' list that he desired should be given an
 audience before the real tragedy of the occasion wss enacted.
 It was 1 o'clock in the morning be-
 fore Mir. Adams was introduced and 1 when that gentleman finally got the 1 floor he reviewed to his guests the fact
 that the late legislature had passed a bill providing for the appointment by ] the governor of three commissioners,
 whose duty it should be to take charge of and hold a territorial fair annually
 at some proper place in the territory. That the legislature had further pro-
 vided that this year there should be appropriated $15. 900 for the erection of
 the necessary fair buildings and inn
 provements and further amount of
 7,50O to be added to the gate receipts for use in the giving of prizes. purses 1 and otherwise defraying the usual ex- penses of such an enterprise, together
 with an annual appropriation of similar nature for the future. Then he suggested his plan for an institution to cooperate in this enterprise and
 establish the fair in this city. He pro-
 posed that a local fair association be
 organized with a capital stock of from
 $3O,OO0 to $5O,O00, that as much of that stock as possible be subscribed for
 by the people of this county, that the
 association buy proper grounds. equip
 them with both a half mile and a mile race track, proper stables and sheds,
 exhibition buildings and all things nee
 essary, including the enclosure of the
 premises: and that once a year it lease
 the grounds for ten dollars to the ter
 ritorial fair commission for one week
 for the holding of the fair, the com
 mission to take all receipts and add
 them to its appropriation for the de-
 fraying of it's expenses, etc. He urged
 that the association proper would get it's
 revenue from race meetings and mati-
 nees, from athletic and other enter
 tainments and from various events of FT,. kI,A
 Incidentally not only the fair associa-
 tion but all the people of this valley would receive great financial benefit by the holding of the fair and the other events referred to- and more than all else by the fact that hundreds of fine race horses would be brought here every season for training and to spend the winter just as soon as these ac- commOdations were provided. The necessity of the two race tracks is that any horse making a race on a mile track is given a record, which generally the horse owner does not want, while any horse may race on a half mile track without getting such record to stand against him in subse- qhent entries in races elsewhere. And
 the idea is not to make Phoenix rac- ing center but a training center. It is fast horses owned by wealthy men who own them for their pleasure that l Phoenix must cater to and not to race track gambling.
 At the conclusion of MT Adams re- marks MT. Isaac T. Stoddard was call ed upon. He had been warned a short time before and he was loaded. His
 remarks were in the same humorous vein that had held sway throughout
 the night and there was the same moral to his humor. It had it's joker And this is what Mr. Stoddard said l Continued on Page 4.