Weekly journal-miner., 1911-04-12
BOOSTERS 60 ID PHOENIX ON
 APRIL q Chamber of Commerce Backs Summer
 Colony Supervisors Thanked For Their Hearty
 Support
(From Fridays Daily.)

If the date should prove agreeable to the Board of Trade of that city, the excursion to Phoenix to boost the Summer Colony, will be held on April 2l. This was the decision reached lest night at the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce at which Pres ident R. N. Frederieks presided. There was some talk of setting the date for the excursion prior to that date but as a local option election is to be held there on the 18th inst, it was deemed advisable to defer the affair until after Phoenix had passed through the throes of her prohibition struggle. A special train will be run on that occasion and tickets for the round trip will be $5.5O. W. G. Green wood of the committee appointed to secure pledges to join the excursion, stated that no effort had been made in that direction because the date of the same had not been determined. Harry Brisley distributed samples of the triangular pennants to be worn on the excursion, and upon motion he was rendered a vote of thanks for his consideration.
 President Frederieks in reporting that the Supervisors had appointed Secretary Fraser as Immigration Com missioner of the county, and appro- priated 5000 for advertising, added that the Board was working in per feet harmony with the Chamber of Commerce.
 In relation to the forthcoming visit of Dr. " T. Cooke, who is to examine into the dry farming possibilities of this section, and deliver a series of lectures. MT. Heap stated that the expert would be here for ten days. There was one day open and it had been planned to fill the vacant date at Jerome. but this had been tenn porarily abandoned owing to the fact that Jerome had failed to raise any funds for the purpose. Secretary Fraser read the schedule of meetings which Dr. Cooke will hold, as pub lished in the Journal-Miner. He fur ther called attention to the fact that the Legislature had provided for the expenditure of $3O00 for dry farming experiments to be expended under the direction of the Board of Regents of the Territorial University, and that correspondence had been begun to ascertain if this fund was still avail able. If it is, an effort will be made to have at least a portion of it utilized in Yavapai county.
 In view of the many important mining strikes recently made Secre- tary Fraser recommended that a cir cular be issued reproducing the arti- cles that have been published in the Journal-Miner. The matter was re- ferred to the Publicity and Advertis- ing committee. In this connection, F. o. Smith moved that the bylaws be amended so as to provide for a standing committee On Mines and Mining. The motion carried, and the Chair announced that the assignments would be made later.
 A letter to Robt. E. Morrison from Father Webber of St. Michaels was read, urging the support of the Cham Der of Commerce for road from Albuquerque via Gallup, Keam's Canyon and Flagstaff instead of q southwestern route to Phoenix. Re ferred to the Good Roads committed. The support of the Board was also asked by one of owners of the Fair Oaks orchard for a new county road in that district, and this communica- tion was referred to the committee on County and Municipal affairs.
 Upon being asked to make a state ment of the amount of land that had been taken up as homesteads, Judge J. M. W. Moore of the land office, stated that he was not prepared to give the exact figures, but he esti- mated roughly that 10000 acres mad been filed upon during the past year in Lonesome Valley, Big Chino and Agua Fria. Last week six quarter sections were taken up, and all by young men.
 It was announced by the Secretary that Jos. Arehambeau had loaned to the Chamber of Commerce his col lection of mineral speeiments, and