Arizona republican., 1905-12-29
THE RICHES OF ARIZONA
 DISPLAYED AT THE FAIR
The Mineral Exhibit Gives a Slight Idea of the
 TerrfOryS BOundIeSS Wealth
Page BrOtherS Champions of Fl pdSO Congress Defeated m Drilling Contest Excellent Performance of the pdCe Stranger o.

big drilling contests, but there were hundreds in the grand stand who saw one yesterday for the first time. There are probably more people in Phoenix than in any other Arizona town, who never saw a drilling contest, or at least had not until yesterday. For many. therefore, it was a novel entertainment and it was a good one. The Page broth CTS won the championship at the Fl Paso carnival and are therefore admit tedly pretty handy men with the drill, but they met defeat at the hands Of a team of drillers who are certainly skillful in their movements, namely Ross and McIvar, both teams being from Bisbee.
 The drilling contest did not begin as early as expected and it was 1 o'clock before it was finished. The huge block of granite given to the fair associa- tion by the Prescott quarry, was taken in front of the grand stand on the half mile track, on a big truck, which was braced up below to make a firm foun dation. Each man or team drilled fif- teen minutes and the man or team get ting the deepest hole won. The double hand contest was particularly fascin- ating, the skill of the two men working in such harmony. being so apparent. The big hammer falling within few inches of the head of the man holding the steel, keeps the witness of the event in constant fear that a wild strike will result disastrOusly. But men who handle the hammers in sucn contests never make misses. Then too the alternating of positions without loss of time or a stroke of the hammer, a Id the changing of steel in the twink ling of an eye, are all spectacular and exciting. The single hand contests came first. Following is the result of both:
 SINGLE HAND CONTEST. Freq Yockey ..21 27-S2 inches c. M. King .2O 1-16 inches Robert Lyons ....1S 932 inches Dava McGowan .....1S 5-32 inches
 DOUBLE HAND CONTEST.
 Ross and McIvar .....40 T. 8 inches Page Brothers .....39 7-16 inches
 This was followed by an exhibition drilling by boys, the result of which seems not to have been kept track of.
 THE MINING BUILDING.
 It has been left until this time to make special mention of the mining building, where are gathered together the exhibits representing the largest individual resource of the territory and the full value of which no man could even begin to guess for it is likely that a hundred years from now there will ] be more big mines in operation in Ari- ] ZOna than people now living dare to think about. The building of a struc- i ture to be devoted entirely to mining exhibits, is an acknowledgment of the importance of mineral development and i the permanence and expected growth of the industry. The building is 40x60 ! feet in size and it is completely filled with exhibits. It is said by those in ' charge that ninety-five per cent of the exhibits will remain on display per manently. for it is the intention to keep this building open the year round i for the education of tourists who come here, concerning the mineral resources of Arizona.
 T. s. Sorin of Tombstone is the head of the mining department but he has found it unable to be here and the ac- tual receiving and placing of exhibits has all been under the direction of Err nest E. Ford of this city, assisted by Fred c. Christy These men have worked hard and have secured most creditable results It would be hard to conceive of bet ter arrangement of the exhibits either from an artistic standpoint or for the purpose of a better display. The building is full and next year an annex or a second building will surely be a necessity. Messrs. Ford and Christy have been very materially aided in the planning and execution of the display by two gentlemen who are here in spe- ciaI charge of individual or county ex- bibits. One of them is H. R. Brown who brought down and installed the i United Verde exhibit, and the other is | Joseph Sabourin, whose special charge | is the Gila county display. MT. Sa- bourin Is about as enthusiastic as a man can be and has good reason for being so, but lie says his interest ir mining is not merely for Gila county | but the whole territory.
 The central setting of the mining | building Is a pyramid fourteen feet high made of small pieces of ore from 1 all over the territory. It is the one large piece that was constructed pri- marily for the purpose of spectacular effect. It represents nothing in par | ticular but all Arizona in general. The ! cap piece is an immense block of green copper ore. Between the pyramid and l the east door and also between the pyramid and the west door are found Tn each place a large block of carpon- ate copper ore from Gila county.
 Four large show cases surround the
 pyramid in a circle, one filled with ex-
 hibits of the United Verde, one with
 exhibits from the shannon Copper Go.
 one with exhibits from the Calumet & Arizona and the other with an eXhibi | of assaying supplies, etc, by J. Q. A
 King of Phoenix. In the south end O. the building are show cases devoted
 to the Copper Queen display and in the north end d show case filled with Ari' Confinued on Pane 2