The border vidette., 1912-06-29
ARIZONA AT EXPOSITION.
Cornmis ssion Asks for Appropriation of
 Quarter of Million Dollars.

preliminary report made to Gov ernor Hunt by the Arizona Com mission on the participation of Arizona at the San Diego eX- position.
 To the Honorable George w. p.
 Hunt, Governor of Arizona.
 Sir-We, your Commission for the State of Arizona to the Panama California Exposition, to be held in San Diego, Califor- mia, during the year 1915. beg leave to make this, our pre- liminary report upon the ad- visibility of participation in this exposition by the Commonwealth of Arizona.
 In conformance to your in- tl notions, we have visited San Diego. have examined the plans and scope and character of the said exposition, have gone over the site and have noted the great progress made in prepara- tion for the year 1915 by the ex- position management.
 In our judgment, the state of Arizona will reap almost incal- culable benefit from this eXDOSi- tiOn. It will be almost at the door of the exposition, and will be visited by thousands upon thousands of people, who will journey across it's area to visit the exposition. The plans and scope of this exposition embrace complete exploitation of the Southwest, that is to say, New
  California, territory so similar in every respect that it can be said to be one.
 Bearing these things in mind, and considering the great benefit Arizona will derive from the most ample and complete eX- ploitation of it's vast resources and wonderful opportunities at this exposition, we have select ed site in the most prominent portion of the exposition grounds for the Arizona exhibit, tract of high land, two and a half acres in extent, so situated that no subsequent selection or con- StructiOn can interfere with the sightlineSS and appearance of Arizona's s building.
 We have we'll considered the probable cost of the exhibit Ari- , zOna should make, taking into consideration the reasons for her ample participation express ed above, and we most respect fully report and suggest that the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars be appropriate n6 of f1n f11ra6S of fhn fo fo for the purpose of placing Ari- zona before the world in an ad- equate manner, of showing in the most convincing way the great opportunities under the hand of the people of Arizona and of calling attention to her resources in a manner that can be obtained in no other way at much greater expenditure.
 We believe that with this amount at our disposal we will be able to make a greater show ing at San Diego than can pos- sibly be made at San Francisco with much greater sum- and due to the fact that the San Diego Exposition is to be unique and Spectacular, an exposition of opportunity, specializing on the things Arizona most depends upon for her future prosperity reclamation, forestatiOn, con tion and immigra ton, to say nothing of the vast mineral resources that will be exploited in the San Diego, Exposition by the management itSelft.
 We are assured that the mag nificent organization of the San Diego Exposition will be at our disposal, both for publicity dur ing the next three years and a half and for construction work, | the division of works of the ex-I position containing one of the | best engineering forces on the ] Pacific Coast, and having it's 1 contracts already let for material 1 for the period of construction | and maintenance.
 In making the above recon mendation we are sensible of | the sentiment of the people of | Arizona, that nothing but the best possible appearance must be made, and with these con- alterations in view, beg to sub init this our preliminary report, adopted this twenty day of June. 1912, at the site of the