Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-04-12

IMPORTANT TO BUSINESS MEN.-The Com
mittee appointed by the Board of Trade to
devise plan CT crsystem for securing result
mentioned below, read she following report
to that body, yesterday:
To the Board of Trade:
GENTLEMEN Your Committee, appointed
to agree upon and report plan or system
1 whereby all the commercial, manufacturing g
and mercantile interests of this city may be
properly represented, and embodied in q
report at the close of the present season,
submit for your consideration the following
| report:
The objects to be secured are daily reports
| of all the Grain, Flour, Provisions Pro-
| duce of all kinds, Coal, Lumber, &C., re-
ceived by railroad, canal or lake-the sales
| and shipments of the same as far as prsc-
ticable.
The daily, weekly or monthly receipts
| of Iron, Grindstone, Copper and Iron ores.
| Crude Petroleum, Nails, &c. Also the num-
Der of Cattle, Sheep and Hogs received,
together with those slaughtered and pack
here.
The monthly statistics of the average
quantity and value of all manufactures, in
Guiding railroad iron and spikes, castings,
nails, nuts, boiler, fat, round and far iron, i,
axles and forged work, engine and machin-
cry, copper smelling, blast furnaces, wooden
manufactures of all kinds, refined oils,
manufactured lumber, including mould
ings, doors, sashes, blinds, wooden ware and
barrels, ship-building, &C., &c.
An average monthly statement of the
wholesale trade in dry goods, hardware
and iron, cloths, elothings, groceries, no.
tions, boots and shoes, leather and hides.
These statistics to be collected and posted
in suitable books kept in the Board of Trade
rooms and open to the inspection of all its
members.
To accomplish this in & thorough and sat-
isfactory manner, your committee would
recommend the appointment Of q compe-
tent person to collect and arrange the same,
and his salary to be paid by subscription,
or by the Board of Trade as they may di-
rect, and, as an increase Of our member
ship SO as to include all interests in ques-
ton, is desirable, we would recommend the
appointment of committee of thirteen
from this Board to canvass the various in
terests to be represented in the system
proposed. J. II. CLARK,
PHILO CHANLERLAIE,
J. F. FIREMAN.
W. F. OTIS.
A. BURGERT.
II. 8. DAVIS.
Committee.
In accordance with the suggestion of the
above committee the following gentlemen
were appointed to call upon those doing
business in the respective districts assigned
them, and solicit them to bs0ome members
Of tho Board of Trade, and 10 aid, IS far as
possible, in the furtherance of the laudable
movement now set on foot:
District No. I.-River and Water streets
and the Depots-J. F, Freeman and J. H.
Clark.
District No. 2.-Lumber Yards-A. Bur-
CERT and George W. Gardner.
District No. S-West Side-T. Burnham
and William Rockefeller.
District No. 4-Superior and Ontario
street-H. NJ. Chaplin and B. Brownell.
District No. -Manufactures-Geor
Sprague, n. 8. Davis and C. W. Coe.
District No. 6-Refneries, Packing
Houses, &c.-M. B, Clark and H. P. Ma
lone.
The above gentlemen will Immediately
commence the canvass of their respective
districts, and we expect te hear generous
and liberal response.