Williams news., 1905-04-22
BIG TERRITORIAL FAIR
It Is Now One of the Assured
 Enterprises of the Future

The story of the birth nf the Arr zona territorial fair and the first filling of its nursing bottle. That's what this is, and incidentally it is a bird's-eye view of what happened at the Hotel Adams on Tuesday night. Briefly, between dark and daylight Tuesday night, the busi- ness men of the city and valley re- solved that Arizona ought to have territorial fair. and acting upon the resolution at once financed the l enterprise by subscribing $23. 700 to it's stock, which amount was in creased yesterday to $24.45O, and which MT. Adams says he is conf dent will be further increased to 1t least $3O,OOO
 It was 1 o'clock in the morning before MT. Adams was introduced and when that gentleman finally got the floor he reviewed to his guests the fact that the late legis- lature had passed a bill providing for the appointment by the gov ernor of three commissioners, whose duty it is to take charge of and hold territorial fair annually at some proper place in the territory That the legislature had further provided that this year there should be appropriated $15,OO0 for the erection of the necessary fair build ings and improvements, and a further amount of $7,500 to be added to the gate receipts for use in the giving of prizes. purses, and otherwise. defra ying the usual ex
 penses of such an enterprise, to- gether with an annual appropria- tiOn 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 proposed that a local fair association be organized with capital stock of from $3O,- 900 to $5O,0OO, 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 mile race track, proper sta bles and sheds, exhibition buildings and all things necessary, including the enclosure of the premises; and that once year it lease the grounds for ten dollars to the territorial fair commission for one week for the holding of the fair, the commission to take all receipts and add them to it's appropriation for the defray- ing of its expenses, etc. He urged that the association proper would get its revenue from race meetings and matinees, from athletic and other entertainments and from various other events of the kind during the rest of the year. Incl dentally not only the fair associa- tion but all the people of this val ley 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 horses would | be brought here every season for training and to spend the winter, just as soon as these accommoda- tions 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 half mile { track without getting such record to stand against him in subsequent 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 pleas ure that Phoenix must cater to and not to race track gambling.-Re- publican, April 13.