Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-05-17
WEIGH HOME FROM
VISIT TO DOUGLAS
Says the Meeting of the Development
Board Was a Profitable One.

Harry Welch, secretary of the Phoe-
nix board of trade and the development
board of Arizona, returned home last
evening from Douglas, where he went
To attend the first seml-annual meeting
of the last named organization last
Saturday. In connection with his trip.
which was his first one through south
ern Arizona, Mr.. Welch took a good
look over Douglas, Aqua Prieta. Bis
bee and Tucson and had planned to re-
turn To the latter city via NOgales and
the new railroad, but failed 10 do 50
as the line between Douglas and No
gales runs through Sonora, and Sonora
is not good country for tourists just
now
The general result of the meeting last
Saturday, says Mr. Welch. will be a
much closer corporation of interests
all over the territory. The develop
ment board is now only six months
old baby. but it is promising young
ster and is already attracting the at
tention of its elders This first meet
ing was naturally rather a formative
one, a sort of get together occasion.
and it was decided to hold the annual
meeting in Phoenix during fair week
next November. That meeting should
be largely attended ami develop the
board into an all-ArizOna boosters club
for fair.
Delegates We're present at the meet
ing from Tucson, Prescott. Bisbee.
Wilcox. Nogales. Clifton, FL Paso.
pboapiy E>Iorcpca rTo,,h-+o,o Nr,.l.,..f
and Thatcher. and the Douglas cham
Der of commerce served as host while
all the Douglas people did their best
10 make the visitors at home. They
were met at the station by the presi-
dent and officers of the Douglas cham
Der Of commerce and taken i'm autOno-
biles to Aqua Prieta, where they saw
the effects of the recent fighting. The
ground was covered with shells. but as
an office man about the most impress
Sive thing Mr.. WEIGH saw was the
customs house which the insurrecto Of
ficials were trying to get into working
order again. Mr.. Welch said that Of
ficial documents were scattered four
inches deep all over the office floors.
and it was a sorry looking situation out
OF which to hope TO bring order and
preserve the old records
The visitors We're next taken to the
Copper Queen and Calumet & Arizona
smelters. In the afternoon the board
held its meeting in the Gadsden hotel
and later the guests were taken to
the Country club for dinner. Dinner
was followed by a ball at the Country
club. for which the Sixth cavalry band
furnished the music.
Sunday morning the visitors went to
Bisbee where the Bisbee board Of trade
provided automobiles for a ride to the
various mines and out to the Country
club and back to the Copper Queen
hotel for luncheon. In the afternoon
Mr.. Welch left for Tucson i'm company
with II. II. FailOr. secretary OF the Tue
son chamber of commerce Monday
was devoted to a trip To- San Xavier
a ride about the city and a
visit at the university
At the university all the officials
We're hospitable and accompanied him
on an inspection of the place. He met
the new president. DR. Wilde. and was
greatly impressed with the ideas ex-
pressed and plans unfoded by the new
head of ArizOna's greatest school. Mr.
Welch says he believes Mr. Wilde will
prove 10 be the right man in the right
place. Professor Forbes was also de-
cidedly courteous and extended many
favOrS
Among others met at the university
was Walter Henry Beale of the agri-
department, who is touring the
west inspecting the experiment sta