The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-01-09
BOARD OF TRADE.
Annual Meeting and Election of omoers

The annual meeting of the Board of Trade
was called to order last evening by Vice Pres-
| dent Woodbury. S. DANA in the absence of the
president.
The records were read and approved.
L. G. Cummings, Esq, was elected a mem
Der of the Board.
The following annual reports were presented
and accepted.
sECEETARYs REPORT.
| To the officers and members of the Board of
Trade:
1 beg respectfully to report that there have
| been held during the year sixteen meetings
| Twelve of the managers and four of the full
| board. Five meetings were adjourned for
want of quorum.
| Four persons have been admitted to mem
bership, and two members have died-Isaae
jackson add Augustus E. Stevens-snd one has
removed from the city.
The Board now numbers 1862 members
| against 156 of last wear.
have received for admission fees and as
sessments $4,000 and have paid the same to
| the Treasurers.
| paying members, the smallest number since its
organization The receipts from subscriptions
| to the Excahnge have been 1,198 making the
aggregate receipts from all sources for the year
| Rl.O1V.NOS NV OhOuSA " ll1Cob tu0 tuTIbut 6&-
| penses.
The subjects which have engaged the atten-
| ton of the Board have been already referred
to IN the synopsis previously published.
While some branches OF trade, such as dry
and fancy goods have not met the expectations
of our people the general trade of the city for
the year, has been large and prosperous and
the State at large. has enjoyed hopeful pros
perity in most all of its leading industries.
There has been notable increase of some of the
lafa nf tha Waa IF ha Ito
ularly in the ice, granite and canning business
The ring interest has very much inn
proved, and the agricultural resources of the
State have received a cheering impetus, Civ
ing promise of So bstantial advancement that
will not only hold more of our young men at
home, but attract immigration within our Dor
ders if properly encouraged.
The fishing business has largely increased at
this port till We have become a rival of the
most important on the Atlantic in the fish
trade, attracting the products of 20 600 fisher
men along the New England coast. The rail-
road aud steamboat lines are in prosperous
cond ton and the great and growing pleasure
travel attracted 10 our city aud state, already
source of large value and importance 10 us,
should be encouraged by the most liberal OUT
lay to facilitate ample and luxurious accom-
modations in transportation and entertainment
to the vast multitude visiting our shores dur
ing the excursion season. The Importance of
this source of income TO Portland aud the
State can scarcely DO over estimated in the
trade that it brings and the capital attracted
hither in building up new villages and estab-
fishing new comm unities along our coast and
thus famIliariZiDg representatives from every
part of the country with the facilities of our
State to furnish It's speciaities as well as its
charming climate and superior attractions as
place of residence.
Other hopeful signs are manifest in the adj
vance OF real estate and the decrease of taxa
ton the past year, and the erection of spacious
and elegant stores and warehouses to accom-
modate the steadily increasing business of the
city
The return to our port again of one of the
largest and mosL important ocean steamship
companies in the world is a reinsurance of the
unsurpassed natural advantages of Portland
to become one of the chief commercial sea-
ports of the world.
Respectfully submitted,