El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-06
COY. NJ DONALD
BOOSTING FAIR
New Mexico Governor De
sires Safe Building Kept
Open Another Year.

Governor W. c. Mcdonald. of New
Mexico was here Monday in the in
terest Of the movement to keep the
New Mexico building at the san Diego
fair open another year
Gov. Mcdonald was accompanied by
Guy A. Reed, secretary and treasurer
of the New Mexico Building and expo
sition commission. and they are making
a tour Of the state in an Effort to raise
funds to keep the New Mexico building
open during the year that the san
Diego exposition is to be continued
IF New Mexico got 100000 worth
Of advertising out OF the building dur
ing the past year. as she has and more.
IL is sure that the state viii get its
$4,000 worth from the building II il IS
Kept open another year" declared the
New Mexico governor Monday morning
at Hotel Sheldon
Wonderland ror Tourists.
New Mexico has a much more Ter
tile field cor the tourist business OF
the country than has California, added
the governor. '-If we can impress this
fact upoa the ti-ousandsfof tourists whe
viii visit the New Mexico building We
viii have them all coming to New
Mexico to see our old missions, our
painted desert, the wonderful pictures
at Aeoma and the quaint old cities OF
our state Santa Fe Is today the mecca
Of all tourist travel in the United
States and it has attractions possessed
by no other city Of the country WhaI
we want to do is to let the world know
this and I believe the san Diego 1alr
Is the place to begin"
Governor Mcdonald declined TO dis
cuss politics saying he was here on
business, and not politics
Ei PHsO Advertised.
Secretary Reed. of the fair commits
sion. was in conference with the
chamber OF commerce while here re-
garding the continuing Of the $50 q
month which FL Paso has been sub
scFibing toward the cost OF maintair-
ing the New Mexico building. where
scenes of FL Paso and its valleys are
shown and where moving pictures Of
the Fl PasO valleys are shown daIig.
IF the past year has been 4 good
advertising year for FL PasO ~ tire
New Mexico building the next year viii
I've even better since the San Francisco
fair will no longer be a counter attrac-
ti0n.- FL FaSO has wonderful irriga-
ton lands and the place to let the
farmers of the United States know il is
Al the San Diego fair where thousands
are visiting it each week FL Paso
has been attracting attention at the
fair hut viii attract more attention II
the advertising campaign is continued
$1,000 Pledged.
At the meeting Of the Fl Paso Water
Users association and the chamber OF
commerce with governor Mcdonald and
secretary Reed, at the chamber Of com
merce Monday morning, it was decided
that the chamber and water users
would do their part toward maintain
ing the Mex Mexico building
Secretary Reed said they wished So
600 from II PasO and the upper and
lower valleys The water users agreed
to give $1,000. the chamber of COM
merce si,0e0 and the Elephant Butte
Water Users association viii be asked
to give another 81 600.
The meeting was attended by COVER
nor Mcdonald and secretary Reed, Fe-
lx Mariner and J. J. Mundy and z T.
White for the water users. and r B.
ser and G. H Clements for the cham
Der Of commerce