Weekly journal-miner., 1911-09-13
From Friday Dzi,yD


 an incentive toward development which will far surpass anything at tempted thus far. Harry Heap at last nights session of the Chamber of Commerce drew attention to the fact that citizens of Prescott snnu ally waste hundreds of dollars on Fourth of July and Labor Day eele- brations wherea, if this money was wisely used it would result in great benefit 10 the entire county. The plan suggested is to lease the race track. put up set of fair bu ldings and every September to hold coun. ty fair and then take these same ex. bibits 10 Phoenix for the purpose of exhibiting them at the Territorial fair. \ committee of the motorcycle club has already written 10 John Dougherty at Los Angeles. regarding ten year lease on the property. Heap moreover pointed out the fact that the county fair would stimulate a friendly rivalry among the orchard ists and farmers in this section and that 1t would be the first county fair to be held in the new state of Arizona. In addition to these ad. vantages numerou, racing stables would be glad to take advantage of the race track for training purposes during the summer months and the climate of Prescott is such that many trainers would be glad 10 have their horses quartered in a cool climate
 Reese Ling suggested that the or. ganization be called the Northern Arizona Fair association, and that it not alone take in the people of Yavs pal but of all the northern counties. !. M. W. Moore added his approval and suggested that the ground be purchased and not leased because this method would insure the stability of the project and not make it an af-1 ton, and that if the land were pur. chased there would be no possibility of loss as it would be bound to in crease in value.
 The suggestion met with the hearty approval of the entire body and on the motion of MT. TimerhOff a com. mittee of five, including the presi- dent will take the matter up and re- port at the next meeting
 Summer Colony
 There are over twenty five appli. cations for lots in the summer colony now being considered by the commit. tee and they express their positive opinion that the year 1912 will see not less than fifty houses on the tract Some of the applicants have shown such enthusiasm that they have expressed desire to pay for an option on the particular lot which 1 met their fancy in order that they may be sure of owning it next year. |
 New Roads Chairman Foster of the committee | on roads and boulevards reported that | he had investigated the road asked | for by Maus and Stewart and found | that the board of supervisors had also had the matter under considera. tion and decided that the cost of | construction would be at least 5000, | which was too high for the amount 1, of good road would do and had of | fered the petitioners the opportunity | of freedom from taxation for two years if they would build the road | themselves. This appeared to be a fair proposition as the road would be of more value to the petitioners than anyone else, however the petitioners failed to take advantage of the of. fer and the Chamber of Commerce | decided to take ao further steps in the matter. The president instructed MT. Foster to take up with the board of super. visors the question of installing a ewenty'foot promenade around the plaza. It was suggested that the su. pervisors might make this needed i'm. | provement and the city would reim- | burse them for the outlay when there were enough funds on hand to make | this possible.
 Dry Farming Secretary Fraser exhibited some ex. cellent specimens of fruit which had bean grown in this county by dry | farming and sorrowfully admitted that the preserving fluid which had been used had caused the color to | fade and peaches which were origin. ally rosy pink were now as large as ever ut of a sad anemic hue and | looked as if the fluid had proved too strong for them. Secretary Fraser