Arizona republican., 1906-11-11
.YAVAPAI COUNTY
 IS IN READINESS
Fine Exhibits for the Fair-TwO Live Commissioners on the Ground and They are Busy Men.

A. A Johns and A. F.. Taylor. fair
 commissioner and assistant fair com
 missioner, respectively, for Yavapai county, are in the city and are as busy ] as ants in a sugar bowl, getting ready 1 to boom Yavapai county during the | fair. They have prepared themselves with something to talk about by seeing to it that Yavapai has an exhibition worth while in every department for which she has anything available and then they have devised various plans i to give the county and its resources | all possible publicity. To finish off
 matters, these commissioners will be ! on hand themselves to back up facts and figures.
 i Tn the way of exhibits the chief in | dustry is mining and there is a larger and better exhibit than last year, which will be referred to at greater ! length later on. It will include. how ever, a copper bar sent by the United l Verde company, and which bar took the gold medal at St. Louis for being | the finest copper bar in the world. Not only Jerome, but many of the famous Yavapai districts will be much in ev- l idence. In the way of fruits there will .
 pies, which also took the gold medal at St. Louis.
 1 . The live stock industry in Yavapai l is important but it runs to range stock rather than blOOded stock, and the dis 1 play will be small in this line.
 l But the chief business of the com 1 missiOners now is in the publicity de- parment. They have had printed a | little eight-page folder for general dis tribution to all who visit the fair. In | the mining building also, they will ] keep a register in which visitors are requested to place their names and ad- i dresses. and later on there will be sent ito them copies of a large sixty-page pamphlet. descriptive of the resources l of Yavapai county. This will be illus trated and published in attractive ] form. Among the special enterprises that will be described wiH be that of the Humboldt Smelling company. which has done more than anything else for the mining industry in the county in recent years. In referring to the greatness of Yavapais mines the commissioners have figures to show that the product of the mines in 1905 was $9O00,OOO while the product this year will exceed S11. 1.OO0. .OOO.OO.
 part of the work of the commits SlOners will be to make each YaVapai county visitor a walking advertise
 ment. Badges of red ribbon have been provided for those who will wear them. The badge bears the legend ''Yavapai County, that's it, mineral production in 19O6 $11, ,0OOOOO." They also have print
 ed cards a little larger than an enveI- ope on which is a map of Arizona
 showing Yavapai county in red ink
 A pointer held in the picture of a hand
 at one side Of the card. directs the eye
 to Yavapai county. which is the first
 thing it would greet anyway but the
 map explains pictorially the signif-
 canoe of the motto, "Yavapai County.
 That's it."
 Another scheme for publicity, and a
 good one, is a bill board which has been erected at the Santa Fe depot It
 is 10x24 feet in size and at night will
 be illuminated by electricity. It at
 tracts the attention of the passer- by
 to Prescott, the city a mile high. etc"
 A similar bill board will be erected at
 Ash Fork, where Phoenix ought to
 have something of the sort. also.
 These advertising features are made
 possible very largely through the ef-
 forts Of the Yavapai Commercial Club
 which is doing all it can to let Yava-
 pal cOunty's light shine.