Arizona republican., 1911-03-12

preaching that Official he told Mr..
Buckley il would be necessary for
him to move his office up to the sec
ond floor as he had to have that space.
Mr.. Buckley. who had the interest OF
the southwest at heart. made good and
Mr.. HurSh took possession not only of
the booth, but OF the very comfortable
furnishings which he told Mr.. Buckley
he need not take the trouble to move
as they just suited the place.
Then he sent to his hotel and got
his very meager display of real Ari-
iona fruit which consisted of just a few
specimens each of oranges. lemons.
grape fruit, tangcrines. dates, etc. These
he displayed to the best possible adj
vantage, meanwhile sending Mr.. Hen
ney to the market in the hope of buy
ing more. but 1t was not to be had for
love or money. Then he got some fine
American Beaut" roses from a green
house and put them i'm evidence. As
the ladies strolled by and saw the signs
over the Arizona booth they re-
marked that anybody could tell by their
perfume that they came from some de-
ligbtful cline. as hot house roses do
not smell that way.
Mr. Hursh next drew from his grip
sack an assortment of almonds. pc
cans and English wanuts, which he
had brought from Arizona, filled "a bot
tie with them and suspended it from
an arch in the booth and hung a sign
II saying that the visitor who regis
tered and made the closest guess on
the number of nuts i'm the battle would
be given tWo-acre tract OF orange
land in the Salt river valley. free. Some
of the time il took a Gordon Of police
men to restrain the crowd that sought
to register and he now has a fine big
volume of names of people who visit
land shows, and somebody secured
piece of orange land very cheap.
In the meantime the wits of the
booth keepers had devised a little work
for the printing presses and every Wis
itor was handed a little folder. There
wasn't o great deal on il for there
wasn't much time TO prepare a great
deal and the private expense of Mr..
Hursh and his associates was creeping
up. But what the little folder did say
was all meat. II spoke by suggestion
rather than by long dissertation. Its
catch phrases were under cover bear
ing in large type: Let This Soak In"
Among them were these: What's the
use of Pooling Away your Time trying
to figure out why a Black Hen Lays
white Egg. but Get the Egg" only
a Rich Man can afford to be Foolish"
Inside the folder was list of questions
suggesting their own answers. as for
instance is ten tons of hay to the acre
sufficient for profitable farming?" etc.
Hundreds Of these folders were given
away and almost all of them were kept
Mr. HurSh saws that while tons of
literature we're actually thrown away.
keeping the janitors busy carrying IL
out, he never picked up but three of
his folders that had been discarded be-
fore the isitors left the building. These
things are mentioned just To- show the
people were interested in the little show
from Arizona.
Before leaving Omaha. Mr.. Hursh
told the management that ne wanted
To announce right then that the Salt
river valley would be back for the next
show and that IL would have real
exhibit next time This is how Mr..
Hursh came TO be appraised by Mr..
Paisley yesterday that the next show
will be in october and it is time for
him to be considering the case. Mr..
Hursh at once gave the information to
Secretary Welch of tho board OF trade
in the hope that that body may take
hold of it, and he will Of course do his
part.
Now a word about Mr.. Hursh and his
North Salt River Valley Irrigation
company. He was asked To say some
thing regarding it. but SAYS the publi-
city period has not yet arrived. His
plans are not .et mature, although
they have progressed to the point
Of the project becoming certainty. and
just as soon as he knows himself what
he has to offer he will take the public
into his confidence. At the present
time he is busy with engineering de-
tails and has nothing to sell. But just
TO aIlay any fcvcrish curiosity and to
Indicate that he is working along
legitimate lines. he gave out the fol-
lowing facts: The company has ac
quircd reservoir site ON the HASA
yampa river almost due west Of Nor
ristown and proposes to build a storage
dam that will form reservoir reach
ing well up toward the point where
the Santa Fc railroad crosses that river
The dam projected will he about ninety
feet high and will impOund water enough
to irrigate from 10000 I" 10000 acres
Of land between Bcardsley and NADIA
stations on the s. 7. +. & T.. through
a canal running from the reservoir east.
some distance south of MorTiStown. 4
l.. Harris. an expert designer and
engineer formerly with the Roosevelt
project of the reclamation service. rs
in charge of the engineering and is
making good progress. Further than
that Mr.. Hursh does not yet care to
talk