The Prescott daily news., 1914-08-18
START TOUR GATHERING EX-
 HiBITS FOR PANAMA EXHIBIT
SIX Representatives of University Of Arkansas and F.. N. Hopkins, Sec retary Arkansas Horticultur-
 al Society Touring State

Little Rock, Aug. 18.-To gather exhibits for the Arkansas building at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, six representatives of the agricultural de- partment of the University of Arkan- sas, acting with k. N. Hopkins, secre- tary of the Arkansas Horticultural Society, have started on a tour of the
 state. These specialists will select the finest of the apple crop and put ! Tn cold storage until time to take it to San Francisco to show the world where the best apples are grown. It is planned to select 300 barrels of ap- ples and send them to San Francisco a few barrels at time in order to have an exhibit that is always fresh.
 Bert Johnson, the manager of the Highland orchards has been appealed to for a peach exhibit and has promis- ed to put up large number of cans of the choicest fruit remaining. The Elberta crop has about been gathered so the finest of the years crop will be on Eastern tables by the time Mr. Johnson goes into the orchard to make his selection. Even at that the horti- Iculturalist expects to get peaches which will compare favorably with those of California. It is hoped that the peaches will not be judged until after the Arkansas crop begins to ripen next July, and if this happens, Mr. Johnson believes that Arkansas will win the sweepstakes on peaches.
 Father Placidus at Altus, and Fath- CT Bandini at Tonitown, have been ap- pealed to to get up a grape exhibit for Arkansas. Neither of the ecclesias- tical vineyardists fears any from the comparison of the Arkansas and Cali fornia grapes, for they know the Ark ansas crop is as good as can be found in any state CT country The grapes will be placed in cold storage until next year also.
 Other agriculturalists, connected with the state and government forces, are also engaged in getting up exhi- bits from the different counties, and the choicest exhibits from the county and state fairs will be boxed up for transportation to San Francisco
 The mineral exhibit from Arkansas will be cared for by Prof. A. H. Pur- due, of Nashville, Tenn, former State Geologist of Arkansas. Prof. Pur- dues heart is in Arkansas, where he labored over it's rocks and streams for years, and he has expressed a willingness to return and superintend
 the selection of this exhibit. This exhibit will be an interesting one, as Prof. ]. C. Branner, former State
 Geologist of Arkansas, is now the head of Leland Stanford University in California. Dr. Branner is consid- cred the worlds leading geologist, and he has stated that he considers Dr. Purdue the best geologist the state ever had Prof. Purdue has longed for such an opportunity for years, for it will give him chance to show the world what he wanted to put into the report a vetoed appropriation by Gov. e. w. Donaghey denied him.
 The first Of next week corps of six solicitors will be sent over Arkan- sas working up funds for the mainten- ance of the building which is now un- der contract, and which will be com pIeted by the first of next year. The committee is looking far ahead in this work and has already begun ar engagements for badge day next Thanksgiving at which the fund may be sweled by donations aggregating $10,000