The Forrest City times., 1914-07-03
ENTHUSIASTIC OVER
 PLANS FOR EXHIBIT
PARTY OF PROMINENT CITIZENS PAID OWN EXPENSES TO GIVE
 THE WORK AN IMPETUS.
IGNORED ALONG THE WAY
Campaign to Be Conducted Vigorously to Raise the Necessary Funds
 for the Work
tern Newspaper Union Nevs Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
 Little Rock.-Governor Hays and a party of distinguished Arkansas citi- zens spent Friday and Saturday in San Francisco, selecting site for the pro- posed Arkansas building, and making other arrangements for the appropriate representation of this state at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. They are enthusiastic over the prospects of Ar kansas taking a position in the fore front of the states at the great world S fair in 1915.
 GOyernGr Hays and party, leaving San Francisco Sunday evening, will make a brief stop at Reno, Nevada, and at St. Louis the last of the week will be the guests of Governor Major Of Missouri for a day, returning to Lit tie Rock about Saturday. The trip is being made over the Northern route by Salt Lake City, and everywhere, go- and returning. the party has been the recipients of many honors. They have been met at different points and es- corted through the several states by governors nave been shown honors by commercial bodies, and greeted by former Ar ansas citizens who extend cd the tourists many courtesies.
 Personnel of the Party.
 Those who are accompanying Gov. Hays on the trip are Col. and Mrs. F. R fI' I{nIIgThgrrr aF I InI HoIenberg being commissioner-gen- eral of the Panama Exposition for Ar kansas; Nr. and Mrs. J. W. Dean, Mir. Dean being general superintendent of the Iron Mountain; George R. Brown, secretary of the Little Rock Board of Trade; Virgil A. Beeson, of Morrilton, president of the Arkansas Press As Soclauon; George R. Mann, the archi- tect who will make plans for the build Ing MT. and Mrs. George Grayson, Of Graysonia; Milton Winham and daugh- ter of TeXarkana: S A. Caudle of Tex arkana; B. F. Biggers of Biggers; Judge Harry F. Cook. of Lake Village: Peter A. Diesch, of Helena; Carroll Walker private secretary to Col. Dean,
 The trip is being made over the Mis- sour Paciticlron Mountain lines, re- turning over the Rock Island connec- uons. An alI-steel Pullman and the prlNate coach, The Wichita one of ue handsomest cars owned by the Missouri Pacific, constitutes the spe- Gial equipment.
 From Salt Lake City westward the parry made the trip over the new Scenlc route, the Western Pacific, the newest of the Gould lines, to the coast, ooWn the beautiful Feather river canon, unsurpassed for grandeur. mere are 3S tunnels on this line from tennessee Pass, at the summit of the oierra Neyadas, to San Francisco.
 Splendid Work by President Bush.
 Near Salt Lake City the railroad of licIals arranged for the inspection of tIe work successfully accomplished by FIesident E. F. Bush of the Denver anu itlo Grande who is also the chief executive of the Missouri Pacific-lron Mountaln. At Lambs Canon, where onfee years time and many millions oI dollars were spent in reducing the mountain grade from to ? per cent, NoVeFnor Hays pronounced it the most 'eHlarkable engineering problem that Ne mad ever examined. This new line, "hicA has now been in use less than q year, is saving hundreds of thousands VI dollars annually to the Gould lines.
 Srte for Arkansas Building.
 m the selection of the site for the AFKansas building. Governor Hays was sulued very largely by valuable in ioI nation given him by Governor Will nam Spry of Utah, who rendered re- eepuon to the Arkansas party in the executive mansion at Salt Lake City.
 Governor Spry has been in close 'ouch with the exposition proposition Ahd advised the Arkansas executive of ,he best place to locate his state build 1k' giving reasons which show that