Weekly journal-miner., 1913-04-30
ARIZONA SOCIETY
 IS BOOSTING FAIR
People From Prescott and Different Parts of Arizona Form Social
 Organization in California.

III accordance with the 1mmensity and importance of Americas master achievement The nation has decreed that such a celebration could be held only in an international exposition in which all the nations of the world could participate.
 Under former President Taft, the nation decided to hold mammoth exposition in 1915 at San Francisco, to be known as the Panama-Pacihc International Exposition. The ex- position will be opened on Saturday February 20, in that year and will continue until Devember 4, lasting through ten consecutive montks-a record in the history of world expo sitions.
 It is intended that all the States of the Union shall take part in the exposition, acting as hostesses to the nations of the world that shall be represented in 1915.
 San Francisco was chosen as the site where the celebration should be held, for many reasons. It is a sea port. It stands at the gate of the Pacific. It is young city. It's his tory lies in the future, not in the past, and the Panama-Pacifc Expo sition is to celebrate the future that must accrue for nations through the opening of the Panama canal
 The site that was selected from a number that abound along the Pa cifc coast is unique for its beauty, its adaptability and accessibility. On this site which covers an area of CPS acres, bordered by the waters of the Pacific ocean and screened in the lap of rolling hills in a climate that is unchangeable springtime, the construction of the worlds greatest exposition has been begun. Within a year from this time, everyone of the fourteen exhibit buildings which the exposition company is to erect will have been completed.
 The foreign powers and the com monwealths of America are coming in line and are already appropriat- ing their sums for the erection of national pavilions, More than half of the States of the Union have taken the first step in active partici- patton in the exposition. They have either selected their sites or have made appropriations or have intro duced bills into their legislatures for the appropriating of sums to be de- voted to their part in the fair.
 The Arizona California Society, which has its headquarters in San Francisco, is not yet very strong in numbers, for the organization has on- ly recently been formed; but it is ad ding to its strength daily.
 Its membership is made up of some of the most prominent men and women in the city and environ ments They represent various walks in life and have come together with intent to hustle their home-state leg islature into passing a bill for the appropriation of a sum sufficient to provide Arizona with building that shall be worthy of the vast resourc- es of the newest state of the Union. There-is at present before the Ari- zona state legislature an appropria- ton bill for Sll2,000 and the mem bers of the Arizona California So- eiety are doing all in their power to convince the legislature of the ne eessity of passing the bill at the earliest possible moment so that they can go ahead with the collection of exhibits They have had few meet ings in San Francisco on the sub ject The society is quite young but has all the energy and activity of youth.
 The president of the Arizona-Cali- fornia Society is MT. R. B. Burmist- CT who holds, with distinction, the position of cashier to the Savings Union Bank of San Francisco. MT. Burmister is a native of Prescott but is also we'll known in Phoenix where he lived before he came to San Francisco: In the course of a speech at recent meeting of the Society, Mir. Burmister said: "The Panama-Pacihc International Expo sition will bring great good to Ari- zona. The opening up of the west, which will be brought about by the opening of the Panama Canal, will turn the eyes of the world upon Arizona. In the State building which we must have at the worlds fair, ,L- -l-..ra l.. J.r.f,.aJ ,- .-t,.b:.