Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1907-09-19
TO MAKE THE BOARD
ROOM ATTRACTIVE
range Things and Add to the Per-
manent Display.

Secretary Cowgirl of the board of
trade who was indicted into office
on Tuesday night, took a good sleep
over il and when he got up Wednes-
DAY morning he left his coat off. fig
luratively speaking, and showed up at
the board of trade room ready for
business. During the day two differ
ent board committees were in confer
ence with him, concerning needed i'm
provements in the board room and
plans for getting Arizona before the
world in a more favorable light He
does not care to announce yet what
the plans for the office improvements
are until he gets them better matur-
ed. In fact they will be worked out
gradually as he discovers what he
needs and what he can have done
with the limited resources at hand.
Briefly though the plan is to make the
board room a more notable place OF
exhibition than il has been and a more
popular meeting place.
For one thing he wants to popular
ize the office as much as possible. He
wants everybody in Arizona to know
where the board room is and to use
it when il can be used for their own
convenience as a place OF meeting and
conference. He wants the town peo-
pie to drop in and be sociable so they
will know by personal contact what is
going on. That will give the board a
greater prestige among a lot of good
people who really feel kindly toward
lit but who have hitherto failed to
conceive that they had a personal in
terest in its prosperity. Every person
in Phoenix can aid the board in its
work OF advertising Arizona by help
ing to advertise the board. He would
ike the popular expression locally to
be Meet me at the board of trade
room" instead of the city hall plaza
the court house or a business house
where people who have other things to
attend to keep falling over the casual
visitor who is doing nothing but
standing around in the way waiting
for somebody.
Incidentally Mr.. Cowgirl hopes to
have something new on exhibition
every day; something worth looking
at by every visitor. whether he be 4
tourist or just one of the home folks
Nearly everybody is engaged in some
special line OF activity and nobody is
doing anything. He proposes to have
a fine mineral exhibit for people to
look at who spend their time writing
books or raising pumpkins and he
proposes to have a fine pumpkin eX-
hibit for the mining men and COW
punchers to look at. etc. Everybody
in the community can profit by see
ing what the other fellow is doing.
and the stranger can profit by seeing
-l,.s ill
hopes to have the displays better ar
ranged for exhibition purposes and
asks every farmer or horticultural to
bring in his best fruits flowers. grains
and vegetables. any old thing that
shows what can be done with soil.
water and climate. He asks the min
ing men to bring in their fine ore
samples. and those in every line to do
the same.
Nor will this be confined to the ma
terial things or necessities of life but
includes the ornamental and practical
as well. For instance he invites those
engaged in raising potted plants.
palms, etc, who have nice varieties
they would like to get before the peo-
pie, to hiring samples of them to the
board where they may be placed on
exhibition with the name and address
of the owner. This will aid in making
the room attractive and will at the
same time give the plant owners some
good free advertising. Mr. Cowgirl
promises to see that they are cared
for properly.
As an illustration of the demand
from elsewhere for information con-
corning Arizona. Mr.. Cowgirl stated
that yesterday seventy eight copies of
the book recently published by the i'm
migration commissioner. We're sent out
yesterday in response to inquiries that
have been received recently Yester-
day four inquiries were received from
California alone. written by persons
who announced their intention OF COM
ing to Arizona TO spend the winter.
And California is supposed to be
something of a winter resort itself