Arizona republican., 1905-05-19
DIRECTORS ELECTED
Meeting of Stockholders
 of Fair Association
Members Voted to a StandstiIl = The Question Of a Site Considered and Referred to Directors for Action.

largely attended session yet held and | the enthusiasm in the enterprise is happily growing instead of diminish ing. The representatives of a large majority of the stock were there, in | fact almost every stockholder who is l in the city, either personally or by 1 proxy and there were but few of the i proxies The one thing finally accom- plished at the long session was the l election of . board of directors of which there are nine members. The l gentlemen selected and the votes re- ceived were as follows: J. c. Adams | 311; B. A Packard 2SO; Isaac T. Stod- | dard 26S; Louis Melczer 245; Charles Goldman 1S1; P. A. Tharaldson 165; H. J. McCiung 131; K. L. Hart 13O; Wal ter Bennett 116. The board of direc- tors will meet for organization at the Hotel Adams tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock
 The other important question was the matter of site and it was brought before the house by the reading of the lreport of the committee on site appoint ed at the previous meeting. The report recited the propositions and options rendered to the committee there being an aggregate of twenty different tracts of land varying in distance from the present race track site submitted by J. k Wheat a mile and a quarter south of tke center Of the city, to one site four and 2 half miles north. These tracts running from 70 to 160 acres were valued at from S5 200 to S1S,O00. | The committee reported that from the 1 number :t had chosen as the number worthy of more serious consideration, ! .t, -s.~ iv, issue of this paper, all of which the committee had examined in special re- ] spect of soil location. proximity to i railroad and street car and price. Fin i ally the committee recommended the selection of the tract offered by E. J. Bennitt described as the west half of | the northwest quarter of sec 32, n, ! e. It is an eighty acre tract one and ! a half miles north of Five Points and fronting on the east side of the Black ! Canyon road, or between the Black | Canyon Road and Center street. It is l three eighths of mile north of the In- dian school car line.
 l All who desired to present new tracts or the claims of those offered to the committee were invited to address the meeting. Mir. Heard spoke in refer l ence to two sites he had offered par 1 ticularly recommending the Joe Moni- | han eighty acres west of town and re- l citing the improvements it already had which might be utilized, includ- ing a house of nine rooms. trees shade, elevations for buildings, etc. MT. Heap l called attention to a tract east of the l city which the street railway company of cred and to which it would extend it's line He offered also to guarantee running the railroad line to the Moni-
 
 run it to the Bennitt property if he could but not knowing the conditions he could not guarantee anything. The discussion of site was cut short by a motion that the selection of grounds be left to the directors with power to act, and the site committee was thank ed for its past services.
 | In the matter of site it was suggest l ed also that before final selection it might be well to confer with the fair | commissioners who are yet to be ap-
 pointed by the governor.
 Another thing that should be special ly mentioned is the fact that the sO- liciting committee reported that about S3,O0O more of the associations stock had been. subscribed for by Phoenix men.
 The rest of the evening was devoted to finishing up the election of directors which is a story by itself. For once a bunch of Phoenix men got all the vOt- ing they wanted and lay down on their ! job. There were nine directors to elect That there might be no slate | work it was decided to nominate from l the floor and forty names were pre- l sented. Each share of stock represent ed was entitled to one vote. It was | finally decided that the names of all nominees should be read and each voter 1 should take list of them, each scratching the names of the thirty one nominees he didn't want to vote for. Then he should fold his ballot and on the back of it write the number of 1 shares he represented. Passing by the l secretary each man was checked off | the list as he handed in his ballot and l his record was looked up as to the number of shares. A motion had pre-
 viously carried that the nine men re- ceiving the highest number of votes above a majority of the stock present should be declared elected. Then the tellers went into the next room to la bor with the returns while the discus sion of the site question proceeded.
 Returning the tellers announced that there were 415 qualified votes in the house, POS being necessary to a choice But four men received more than . maiorit of POS and they were: J. c. Adams, B. A. Packard, I. T. Stod- | dard and Louis Melczer. Arrange
 ments were in progress for another | ballot when some man looked at his watch and moved that the five next highest in the number of votes cast be declared elected to fill out the board. It was so ordered and the men named were Charles Goldman. P. A. Tharaldson, H. J. McClung. K. L. Hart and Walter Bennett. And the motion worked by a narrow margin for the sixth and seventh men tied and were only two votes behind the fifth man. Only for the best kind of luck the stockholders would have been still