Weekly journal-miner., 1912-11-06
YAVAPA| HEADS LIST 0F FAIR PRIZE WINNERS
Besides Grand County Prize This Sec- tion Scores Heavily With its Fruit
 And Farm Products.
soeciai to the Journai-Miner.

County has reason to feel proud of her exhibit at the First State Fair There are stock, and minerals, and most oi all there are agricultural products. Yavapai having the larg- e,t and finest exhibits in that line at inc fair this year; one exhibitor, alone the United Verde Company, hayng captured about sixty prizes.
 Ya,apai won the blue ribbon and grand prize for the best County ex- hibit, winning the cup which Is val ned at S300 and which is offered this year for the first time. IL is to be held by the county winning it three times out of five and who can doubi-cspecially who from Yava- pal county can doubt-that VIC will continue to hold it now that we have n in our possession'
 The Fair officials regret that the limited space at their disposal crowd ed out SO many things which should have had adequate space for display. They wish to impress upon the people of Yavapai and upon the peo- pie Of the whole state that we are arc no longer simply a ter ritory, but are a sovereign state and that our State Fair facilities need 10 grow approximately. Buildings have way of refusing to expand, however great the need, until the people of the state encourage the Legislature to furnish money for their growth. Box atfer box of per iecily good agricultural products came 10 the Fair this year. for which those in charge had absolutely no room to display.
 But there was one department that Yayapai County did not help 10 crowd, dear me, no! Your corre- 'pondent entered the Educational Department with a pleasant feeling oi anticipation for the joys ahead, glanced interestedly al the exhibits from other counties while en route Do Yavapai, then began to sit up |and take notice, then began to search |wildly as with fine toothed comb, |bui never solitary exhibit from bur county could be unearthed in |iha department Reporters to the |right oi us, reporters to the left of |u' and each and all proud of what h' particular county was doing Fhd what it was showing at the tTi State Fair, but alas for the cor Dependent of the Journal Miner. re- presenting Yavapai County. who felt Ike emulating Cock robin when he |Put his head under his head, poor fhlng,' and hide away from the proud and naughty representatives |h the other counties. We know nat we have just as good schools in
 Napai as in any other county in me state. Then why not let the ftN Of the state realize it. too, Through our exhibits at the State
 ar' For if we do not toot our i'Ue horn. who, please, is going to ooih it for us?
 iavapai did very we'll in the Wo- mans department and captured her ull quota of prizes on what she ex- io'ed, but the ladies in charge of n' department expressed the hope n" Prescott and other points in
 aVapai would enter more fully into ne contest of the cooked food de-
 a''ment in years to come. than they
 ave done this year.
 MT Duke has an unusually inter sung exhibit from his Big Bug ''ne in the Mayer district in fife O'm oi gold specimen which is
 "hed by the Bank of Arizona and
 .a.ed at six hundred and forty
 'oo") dollars. Ezra w. Thayer
 ;" some silver exhibits which at
 '''cd especial attention. They
 .me from his Monte Christo mine,
 men is in Yavapai County, about
 we've miles from Wickenburg.
 rom one specimen containing about
 w pounds of silver has been made
 ,ond silver spoon. picture frame
 u silver bar and there were
 ,"oer of other specimens display
 winch are almost pure silver.
 ",'e IS also native gold exhibit
 que by w. l.. Roberts from his
 '"e Alto' which is located about
 % T, miles south of Iron Springs.
 me United Verde took the Grand
 ae Tor the best and largest col
 "o" oi fruit, and the red ribbon
 "e best collection by one cxhibi-
 oung took inc h1ue r;hhou for