Nebraska advertiser., 1865-06-22
Report Of the Committee appoint
ed to TO make a statement in
favor OF. and objects TO be aC-
cOmplIShed By, the organization
CT 8 Board Of Trade.
Brownsville, NEB., ;
June l4th, 1865.

CT 8 Board Of Trade.
BRowNvILLE. NEB.,
June l4th, 1865.
To the Board of Trade Of BrorauiHe,
Nebraska:
GENTLEMEE Your Com
mittee, TO whom was assigned the duty
of making a statement of the arguments
in favor of, and objects to be accomplish
ed by, the organization of a Board of
Trade of the City Of Brownville, re
specially submit the following:
1t is a matter of fact and history that
every City of any commercial import.
ance has a Board of Trade. having for
It's object the Advancement of the COM
merCial and general interests of the same
in all departments of business. Mer-
chantile, Mechanical and Agricultural,
and these Boards are usually composed
of men Of all professions and employ
ments, embracing alike the Lawyer,
Merchant, Farmer and Mechanic, who
unite their efforts TO accomplish such ob-
jects as they may deem advisable for
their prosperity T; and it is by the CON-
bined exertlons of the same hat our
cities have advanced to greatness, wealth
and power, and that our agricultural
lands have been converted from their
wild, unproduclive State, to yielding to
the industrious ti.ler of the soil, rich and
remunerative products. It is bat a few
years since, and within The recollection
of many of the members of this Board.
that Chicago was a mere swamp, with
bat few Inhabitants, yet to-day it is
termed the commercial metropolis Of the
West. It's rapid increase in population
and accumulation of wealth, is almost
without a precedent in history. AT an
early period Of its history a Board of
Trade was organized by its citizens,
having similar objects in view to the one
organized in this City. Under its aus.
pices that City has grown up to be what
it now is, the commercial power of the
West The prosperity of that City is in
a great measure due to the united efforts
of its citizens through the medium of its
Board of Trade, and not only was their
city built up through the exerlions of
that body, but the agricultural lands
around it were settled and enhanced in
value and a good market was created for
the farmers produce. The success of
the Merchant, Banker and Mechanic Of
Chicago, was tie prosperity of the
farmer in its vicinity, each being de-
pendent on The other.
Although Brownville may not possess
the natural advantages for a commercial
city like Chicago, yet there is no reason
why it cannot be mnde a place of con-
siderable Importance and this county be
made the first in agriculture in the Ter
ritory, by the combined efforts of the
business men of this place aud the
farmers. To the commercial success of
BrOwnville is necessarily incident the
agricultural prosperity Of the county, for
with the increased population, wealth and
business of the town there is, of course,
a corresponding increase in the demand
for Il e products of the farmer, each
class of our citizens being mutually de-
pendent on the other, 1t is therefor only
By a concert of action lhat the interests
of all can be advanced both in the city
and country.
At the present time Brownville has a
population of upwards of one thousand.
Now, suppose it contained six or ten
thousand inhabitants, would not property,
not only in town, but the farming lands
throughout the county be enhanced in
value, and besides a surer and better
market for the farmers produce would be
the result ; and, on the other hand, if
there should be a corresponding increase
in the farming community, it would afford
a larger field for the merchants and
business men of the city to operate in,
as there would be an increased quantity
of products of the soil, for which the
merchant exchanges his goods. 1t is
useless to demonstrate the identity of
interest between the several classes of
our c~ilizens, for they are patent to every
one, and that fact being evident, IL re-
mains for our citizens to consider the
measures to be adopted to advance our
mutual interests, acting in concert thro'
the Board of Trade.
Your committee, under the assumption
of the s~elf-evident proposition that an
increase of travel through, and settle.
ment In our county, must necessarily be
followed by an increase of trade in all
departments, and Of the products of the
soil. thereby increasing the wealth and
prosperity of all classes. would respect
fully call the attention of the Board of