Arizona republican., 1910-06-01
ARIzOAA'S PART IN
 SAN D|EGO'S SHOW
pr. Foss Comments on the Possibilities
 of the Exposition.

President J. w. Foss of the board of trade. in speaking of the prospective exposition in San Diego in 1915. said,
 The Pacific coast has never had real exposition. From the time of the Franciscan friars and the advent of moneyladen San Francisco, the old metropolis of the west, has made dabs at worlds fair, but beyond exploiting the bones of Balboa and the Ostenta tious digging up of other dead celebri- ties which served to dress a city or two with carnival confetti, there has been no real ultimate in the way of worlds fair. It seems, however, that destiny has given birth to a new metro polis-a new municipal Hercules that is destined actually to do something This is San Diego She has one of the finest ports in the world, a water sys- tenn sufficient to supply million and a half people. one hundred miles of local street car lines. and with the new San Diego Arizona railroad. now near ly half built, the key to the Arizona New Mexico and Texas situation. San Diego is the natural and logical site for the exposition to commemorate the opening of the Panama canal in 1915. She is the first port of call on the Pa cific north of Panama. Her area of harbor can shelter all the navies of the world at one time. This not senti ment with me It is one way of get ting at this one big fact-that San Diego promises to be the long sought for gateway of greatness for Arizona first and for Phoenix second. All those of Phoenix are for Arizona and in 1915 I believe l am justified in saying that We of Phoenix and of Arizona will reach the great way of light which reaches out to the orient and to South America-the light for which we have been seeking since the Drachmans, the first settlers here, crossed the plains of Arizona more than half a century ago. The organization of the commit tee, which MT. Loughry is now as- sembling, means much to the city of Phoenix. l have talked to several of the leading citizens of the city. includ- ing its bankers. its merchants, its pioneers. it's promoters. and all promise that when San Diego's gates swing open in 1915 there will be exhibited in San Diego one of the most unique it.
  sources that has ever been laid before the world. What the board of trade wishes. I am sure, is a replica or a miniature Arizona at what will be very likely the worlds greatest exposition We want Arizona's outline. We want its mountains, its great irrigation systems, its great smelters, the duplicate in miniature of its great record breaking mines; its railroads, it's rivers-every- thing that Arizona has-everything that Arizona has to be proud of We want growing in San Diego in 1915 the finest sample of Egyptian cotton that ever made wealth. This cotton is grown now within nine miles of the city of Phoenix. We want its Indian school there (second largest in the United States); we want a duplicate of the experimental date farm, the first of its kind in this part of the world. which scientific men from all over the world come annually to inspect. We want to educate the people of the world to the fact that Phoenix date growers are netting from $1,500 to $2,0OO an acre Ultimately. after our com mittee. which is representative and
  all the nations, from the orient, from Europe. from South America, from Mexico, to be able to get into a minia- ture Pullman car. ride over the nar- row gauge replica of Arizona. in fact to do the territory of Arizona, dur ing San Diego's exposition in a few hours.
 And when they do this, I am con- vinced they will come back to our ter ritody and take up the great things, the great projects that our people have as yet left undone. I believe I am speaking for the board of trade wholly, individually. when I ask the commit tee formed by MT. Loughry to get to- gether. work together and accomplish these two things-the broadening of San Diego's greatness, and the broad ening of AriZona's usefulness to the world"