Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-10-05
READY FOR THE EVENT.

San Francisco will become the Exposition City
i'll fact well in name just nine days from
now. On October IA President Taft will turn
the first Spadeful Of earth at the fair grounds
This will be followed by activity more spectacu-
lar than that which resulted upon the discovery
of gold in California the wonderful burst OF
energy that San Francisco 5 answer to the
challenge of the fire Of 1906. The building of the
greatest San Francisco will commence Immediate
ly upon the breaking of, the ground for the Pan
ama-Pacific exposition.
For the past five years San Francisco ha,
been busy with the work of restoration. This
work has been completed to the satisfaction of
the people Of the city and to the admiration Of
the people Of other cities. On October IA San
Francisco will begin to build for the future.
With the completion of the fair plans, San
Francisco will have passed through buster de-
cade than has ever been known by any, city in
the world. In the ten years beginning in April,
1906 San Francisco will have achieved the mo-
mentous record Of having been completely de-
stroyed, completely rebuilt and finally of having
doubled its population and business
The building that faces the people of San
francisco is different from that which faced the
same people when they bravely began the re-
construction Of the destroyed city in April. 1906
but it will require the same optimism and en-
crgy. The time is none to long for the compile
tion Of the plans that will round out the great
cst decade in the history of San Francisco or
Of any city.
1t is fitting that the man who more than any
other, helped to assure the latter half OF San
FranciscO's most eventful decade should preside
at the ceremonies which will mark its beginning
President William Howard Taft has agreed to
start the work upon the exposition in person. He
has further shown his appreciation of the import
of the event by ordering that the Pacific
fleet shall be present in order that the ground
breaking ceremonies may have all the dignity of
amy event important to the nation and to the
whole world.
There are many reasons why the president S
presence at these ceremonies is pleasing to the
people of San Francisco and to all those con-
cered in the exposition and, the city's future.
The president aided in the winning of the fair
for San Francisco, and has at all times been the
friend of the people of that city, Of California
and Of the whole west Besides, the presence of
the president will serve to impress the people of
foreign countries with the Importance of the
Panama Pacific exposition. But one of the chief
why the presence of Taft will be in
spration in the great work that is before that
city is that the president himself is great opti-
mist
Optimism is needed for the success of work
such must be done in order to make the Pam
ana-acfc exposition what the people of San
Francisco have promised the people of the United
States and what the people of the United States
have right to expect from the people of San
Francisco for the privilege Of holding the expo
sition The builders of the Panama Pacific ex-
position viii draw optimism from the greatest of
American optimistS on October A. The present
plans assure all that the work will be started
properly and in the right spirit. When the first
spadeful Of earth is turned at the Stadium nine
days from now the second half of that city s
greatest decade will begin under the right aus
pieces and in the right way. San Francisco will
then become the exposition city in Fact