Arizona republican., 1909-12-21
COPPER STAKE !. SUBSCRIBERS. They Are Rendered. Banquet
 by J .c. Adams
 GOV. SLOAN POSTMASTER
MT. Adams Announces His Resignation From Com mission and Then Raises Purse For Next Years Copper Stake

From start to finish the banquet rendered last night b. J. C. Adams 10 the subscribers Of the Copper Stake was a eulogy of the territorial fair commissions management and partic- ,Ilariy of the president of that commas sion. The banquet terminated with d speech by Mir. Adams in which he an nounced that he had handed In 10 the governor. his resignation as commis- sioner. NIT. Adams then proceeded to raise all the money he could by SUD- scription from the gentlemen present 10 support the great Copper stake TOT next year.
 Almost every speaker referred to the territorial fair as the supreme adver- Using medium for Arizona. And almost every speaker had some little comph- ment or other to pay to the originator of the fair--and to the man who mas supported it, raised money for ,t ana given his time to it in the last i've wears. After MT. Adams announced that he had handed in his resignation and that henceforth he would cease 10 be directly interested in the fair ex- cent as citizen of Phoenix and Ari- zona. he called on all those present Who would reDeat their subscriptions oi last year to rise. Nearly every one or the one hundred and fifty present stood up and displayed his willingness to make the next Copper Stake races the greatest racing event of the year in America. Subscription cards were then passed around and 1t is under stood that large amount was raised to be offered next year as a purse TOT the great race.
 While the first course of an excellent dinner was being attended to two pho tographers took the picture of those present. A triple dose of flash powaer report was the result The detonation report was the result. The donation almost broke the windows. It sounded like an anarchists bomb. The glass on the tables rattled and curtain over one Of the windows within the supporting rod fell with crash. The report sounded like one of the Hon. Isaac T. StOddards jokes and blew one of the waitresses back into the kitchen Volumes of smoke, like the eruption Of vesuvius. obscured the room like London fog so that one could not see his nearest neighbor.
 Governor Richard F.. Sloan acted as toastmaster. He said that the banquet was given by Mir. Adams as a com- pliment to the men who made the Fifth Territorial fair the greatest ever held in the southwest He said that the fair was a big job and that 1t took big men to run it. The territory was fortunate in securing such men as Ad- ans. Packard and Campbell to devote their time to it. He then introduced Attorney General John Wright of Tue son.
 -The people of southern Arizona" said MT Wright, extend their greet ings to MT. Adams .and the gentlemen present. We always wanted the fair for Tucson but when we could not get it: when Phoenix picked the plum we joined in to make it the greatest event in Arizona. Why. at the last fair Tue son was as deserted as a prayer meet ing when a light opera troupe comes to town. It is the greatest and most effective advertisement that Arizona can have and the fact that we have it today is due largely to the efforts of MT. Adams"
 Mike Burns, representing northern Arizona, said that the people in his part of the country did not look upon the fair as a local institution-they gloried in it and on the walls of many an humble citizen vii be found tro- phies ron a. some of the fairs.
 J. R. Hampton was assigned the toast "The Legislature and the Fair" He spoke on the latter topic only. In part he said:
 "I do not believe that Arizona is be- ing advertised as she should be. We are keeping out light under a bushel. The resources of this country are prac- tically unknown outside of the terri tory. Tn 1905 when money was appro- priated for the first fair I was in- clined to think that it was money vast ed. I had in my eye the vision of a fat lady, snake charmer. some pump kins and a horse race on half mile track. When I came here and saw the fastest automobiles of the country. the fastest horses, the agricultural exhibits and the mineral building.I knew that no mistake had been made. We must make this fair greater and better than ever before. Let us proclaim to the world that we have the most produc- tive district in the country
 Colonel William Durham, whom few present knew, was then asked to talk about Pinal county and her mines. He studiously avoided either subject He started in with q few rag time stories and in five minutes had, established cordial relations with every man in the room. Some of his stories were choice | He may have told them in Pinal county before but they were new to Maricopa The Honorable Chauncey M will henceforth take 8 back seat for Colonel 1 Durham has endeared himself to Ari- zona as an after-dinner and possibly | before-speaker. Messrs. Reeves and l Wood, managers of the Coliseum, both