Arizona republican., 1910-03-02
PLANS ID ENTERTAIN
 COAST DELEGATION
THE REAL ESTATE BOARD MEETS AND ELECTS HI LATHAM
 PRESIDENT.
Committees Are Appointed to See to IL That the Members Of the Los Angeles Chamber of Com
 merce Are Shown
 the Sights.

To start in motion plans for the en-
 tertainment of the 15O members of the
 Los Angeles chamber of commerce who
 are to tour the territory and devote
 q part of their time to Phoenix. the
 real estate board of Phoenix yesterday
 met at the offices of Greene X Grif-
 fin About twenty members of the board were present. \ committee on entertainment and one on transporta- ton were appointed.
 In the absence of Homer King. the former president of the board. wh" is
 no longer in the real estate business. Sid Henry was nominated as tempor- ary chairman. II. | Latham was then elected president of the board in place of MT. King. The committee on enter tainment consists of II. I. Latham. c T Hirst and Elliot Evans The com mittee on transportation is l.. = Thompson. II w. Bergman and V. (. Cook
 The visitors will reach Phoenix at 6 a. m Friday. March 1S. At II D. m. they will leave for Prescott. Thus whole day will be passed in this city. which is more time than is allotted to most of the other towns of Arizona.
 The members of the Los Angeles chamber of commerce are comin-; to Arizona for the purpose of examining its resources. becoming better ac- qua iuted with the citizens Of the ter ritory and promoting closer relations between the coast city and the cities and towns of the territory. They will examine into every industry in every town they visit. Many of the men in the party are men of considerable wealth and some of them at least have an eye open for investments in land that is newer and more open for op- portunitv than their own state.
 While in the Salt river valley they will be shown everything that Phoe- nix is proud of. \ great part of the | day will be passed in tour 5v auto | mobiles around the valley IL will be ! the duty of the transportation com ! inittee tn gather in all the availa ble | automobiles in the city, for it is | planned to have a driver and a local {, business man in each ear as well as | the visitors AS there will be about | l5O visitors an estimate of fifty ears 1 is rather conservative. There are so |; many cars in town now that t should | not be difficulty to procure this many. |
 The tour of the valley will include I the western portion in the districts Of II Fowler and Creighton. The procession Jf cars will start out over the Yuma | and Chrfsty roads: they will then turn l north to Glendale and the sugar factory fl and then east to Central avenue. the fl Indian school and the orange groves. II If there is time Ingleside will be wis Il ted but at any rate the visitors will Il nave q fine opportunity of comparing Il Arizona groves with the California groves.
 In providing for the entertainment II Jf the guests the committee will con fer with the Phoenix and Haricopa II county board of trade and with the of the City club. The il 'eal estate board has no desire to il shoulder all the burdens ar gather all
 
 irst local organization to take action ,n the matter. The cooperation of III will be necessary to make the visit lasting success. Mir Latham has )een in constant correspondence with II 'oIne of those who will have charge of he tour and has learned the general II outline of their plans.
 The Los Angeles business men travel III n special train with diner and Pull mans attached. They have already u -isited points in central California on tl he same mission and are now com ng to Arizona to learn conditions so II hat commercial relations between the 'oast and the territory may be bet cred. Their itinerary will be as fol- ows: They will enter the territory at una and then go to Tucson: from Tucson they go to BiSbee. then to Douglas and Benson; then to Bowie md Stafford and then to Globe. From ilobe they will go back over the road nd come to Phoenix.