Arizona republican., 1910-12-11
CHANCE ID ADVERTISE
 TERRITORY IS MISSED EXHIBIT AT CHICAGO LAND SHOW TOO SMALL, SAYS CATE. Thinks Now Is the Time to Begin Ar ranging for Better Representa-
 ton Next Year.

Arizona missed a splendid opportuni- ty to advertise her resources to the world at the United States Land and Irrigation exposition. recently con- cluded in Chicago, says Garth w. Cate of Dwight B. Heard & Co, who was in Chicago during the time the exposi- ton was open at the Coliseum. Mir Cate returned to Phoenix yesterday.
 "The exhibit which the Phoenix board of trade sent to the exposition. though good. was ridiculously small" he said. "Maricopa. Yavapai, Graham and Yuma counties should all have been represented. We had only a small space in the Southern Pacific department and while everything that we had was fine, there wasn't nearly enough of it.
 For the space we had our exhibit attracted as much attention as any there. The Southern Pacific had exhibits from all the agricultural districts through which it's lines ruin. That com pany spent $40,OO0 on the exposition and had twenty men there who worked in shifts. Eight or ten men were with the s. P. exhibit at all times.
 ''The Santa Fe had fourteen profes- sors from the experiment stations To- cated in districts tapped by it's lines These professors delivered lectures. it. frustrated by stereOpticOn slides. and explained the exhibit of that company that thronged the building. Nothing attracted more attention than the San ta Fe exhibit of Indian blankets. pot tery and other products, mostly from northern Arizona.
 Several hundred more people regis tered at the Arizona exhibit than regis tered last year. though we did not make an" effort to have them regis ter Everyone was asking about our ostriches. We had pair of ostriches at the exposition the year before and thousands were disappointed when they did not see them again.
 -''The ostriches we exhibited at the 1909 exposition are now at the Lincoln park zoo. Chicago. I went around to the zoo just to take a look at them. Both birds are doing fine. During the year the female has laid twenty eggs but none have been matched.
 -"Cy de Vry. keeper of the zoo is i'm mensely proud of the ostriches. One day Mrs. de Vry visited the exposition wearing a magnificent hat decorated with feathers which they had pro- duced.
 Though we had no Ostriches, our date exhibit caused much comment We had fifty eight varieties of edible dates on display in boxes, as we'll as several punches. The dates were dO- mated by Professor R. H. Forbes of the university and Mir Simmons of the Tempe date orchard.
 After the exposition our fruit and the seeding orange trees in pots were given to the hospital for crippled chill dren. We also gave fruit for use in two operas produced while the expOsi- ton was in progress
 Tt isn't too early to begin saving up for the next exposition. We should have an exhibit in Chicago next year that will give the world true idea of the resources of Arizona. both mineral and agricultural And several men should be sent along to take care of it. James Griffin and myself were the only Arizonians at the exposition this year Why. southern Louisiana had nine teen men and northern Louisiana had fifteen more. That shows how other states regard the land show"
 While no official figures regarding the attendance at the exposition have been given out. Mir. Cate says that it was far greater than at the 1909 show. Several times the doors of the Coliseum had to be closed to keep out the crowds.
 Mir. Griffin will return in two or three days.