Arizona republican., 1909-07-09
ARIZONA $
 OPPORTUNITY. i Land and Irrigation Exposition
 at Chicago REPRESENTATIVES ARE HERE F. H. Griswold and J. C.. Waite Seeking to Arouse Interest In a Project of Great Moment to This Valley.
REPRESENTATIVES ARE HERE

Frederick H. Griswold and ! c.
 Waite of Chicago arrived here We'd
 nesday night and expect to remain in
 this valley and at Roosevelt until over
 Sunday on business in connection with
 the irrigation congress and the Land and Irrigation exposition to be held in
 Chicago. beginning November 2. Mir.
 Griswold is a staff writer of the Chi cago Tribune. the leading paper of that city. and is also assistant secretary of the Seventeenth Irrigation congress. or as he is more frequently called, pub
 licity secretary. Mir. White is in charge
 of the colonization work of the re- clamation service in Chicago. Their missions are to encourage the interest of western communities in both the
 Chicago exposition and the Spokane
 gathering which Is to be the most largely attended session of the irriga-
 tiOn congress yet held.
 As has been heretofore announced
 in these columns. the exposition in Chicago is to last for one week and will be held during the livestock show
 in that city that annually attracts half million people through special
 rates and other inducements offered. These with the two and a half millions of Chicago people will make the patrons of the exposition a likely field for colonization work and the adver- tising of the great west and its re- sources. Chicago too, is in the cen ter Of a great galaxy of farming states and the people who will attend the lives stock show as well as those living in that congested metropolis. are just the kind to draw from for the settle ment of western lands and the build ing of western cities. As Mir Griswold says, We have the people and Ari- zona has the land and we ought to be able to get together. The Tribune is continually hammering away on west ern lands and the people in Chicago are greatly interested but they don't know much about irrigation and irri- gated sections. The Tribune is trying to do all it can and the opportunity is now open for the Phoenix and all oth- CT western people to get before them
 What Mir. Griswold wants is not so much an exhibit of the biggest crop of barley raised, as something that will give urban dwellers a general idea of the conditions of life in this section. They are trying to get away. he said. from the county fair idea What they want is more paRoramas. more paint ing more models. more transparencies. and more photographs. and then in ad- dition, just as good a display of pro- ducts as can be made What the Chi cago people want is a better general idea Of where they want to go to build their homes Thev want to learn of general living conditions as well as of soil. water and crops
 Mir. Griswold says he is assured Of large displays being sent from Utah and many other western states and he sincerely hopes Arizona will do some thing creditable in the same direction for the resources are apparent All it needs Is the effort In view of the fact that the Chicago exposition follows right after the Arizona fair. it would sem as though the various cOmmuni- ties could send large portions of their far exhibit along to Chicago. The mat ter has been given some consideration by the board Of trade and it is ex- pected that this body will shortly take more active steps and when it does it should have the hearty cooperation of all the people. It will be an incompar- able opportunity to advertise the val- ley among the very people the valley seeks to have as settlers.
 Messrs. White and Griswold have been travelling ever since May and have visited some thirty reclamation projects in the west. both public and private including most of the larger ones of the reclamation service They expect to visit the Bartlett Heard ranch and the south side today and hope to go to Roosevelt on Saturday. They have travelled through Colorado. Utah. Washington. oregon. Idaho and California and when the leave here will touch in New Mexico end Texas.
 The Tribune is giving a great deal of space every week to the advertising of this exhibit and the railroads are cooperating In the project The exLo sition will be given in the big Coliseum building in Chicago and is under the of a large advisory committee which is assisted by promotion com mittee. These committeeman represent | various great railroad companies, the 1 government reclamation service. the | Tribune and other large interests di- 1 rectly concerned in colcIizing the | great west. = Mir. Griswold contributes occasional | articles to the Tribune on features of | interest that he comes in contact with ] on his travels. all designed to boost the | exposition and to benefit the western 1 sections which the features advertise | These contributions run from double column and page articles. illustrated. to big page advertisements. illustrated with art that is bound to attract at tention to. the text. One double col lmn ad for instance is headed with the legend The Wealth of Ancient Egypt In Arizona and New Mexico" Above t Is a magnificent sphinx built of