Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-10
SALEM BOARD OF TRADE.
What Oar Business Interests Demand.
Something More Permanent
Needed.

which, owing to causes it is not nec-
essary to discuss, has practically lain
dormant for four months Salem as
the second city IN Oregon has be-
come the center of Immigration.
After eastern and western people
have seen Portland, they come to
soc the Capital City quite naturally.
There is no other second city in Ore
gon now. The opportunity for the
growth, future and development of
Salem was never what it is now, and
there is a spirit rife that now is the
time to push and make it city in
deed.
The JOURNAL has no personal
axes to grind, but believes in the
great opportunities that lie before
our city ana feels deeply that they
should be improved. A board of
tINde requires a solid, active, inter
ested membership, manned by live
men, offieered by men who have no
strings or restraints upon them.
The JOURNAL believes in a genial,
affable, competent salaried secretary.
He should not be reporter for any
newspaper, agent for any railroad
or real estate firm, but he should be
the friend and helper of all these
interests that will alone make city.
We wish to be quite plain about
this, yet not in a critical sense.
To test the sentiment of those in
terested, the JOURNAL has secured
interviews with leading real estate
aud business men who believe in
pushing Salem against the world,
and everyone can see just what the
universal thought on the subject is.
TALKS WITH BUSINESS MEN.
President J. G.. Wright: "The
board should be organized at once.
L favor a SO annual membership
with 81 monthly dues. The bust
ness should be done at the hands of
an executive committee, who should
on all important matters recommend
to the board and get its cooperation
before contracts are made. No con-
tracts should be entered into until
the money is on hand to pay the
bill"
Landlord Wagner: "Salem is the
coming town of this coast. We
hear it from the Sound, from Port
laud, and everywhere. 1t will only
be Il short time when the floating
capital of this coast will drift into
the Willamette valley, and Salem is
bound to take the lead. l certainly
favor having a board of trade at
once, but on solid basis. The
membership fee should be not less
than $25, with 50 monthly dues. A
good executive committee should be
had to counsel with the board and
with the citizens on all matters per-
tanning to the public interest"
J. A. Carson: awe should have
an energetic board to keep the name
Cf Salem constantly before the
world. Every American consul in
Ctnada aud other foreign countries
should be supplied with printed
matter concerning our city, as they
have frequent opportunities to ad-
wise enigrants."
Monroe Nye: ave need to make
sufficient effort to keep Salem before
the world all the time, but no mis-
representations"
Banker Wallace: "We need a
vigorous organization. 1 will do
anything can to sustain it,"
1. VanDuyn: "Now is the time
to push. Our city is the safest place
for investments. Boom a good
board of trade"
+. S. Knight: "By all means
give US new board. The old sys-
tenn is no longer useful"
Senator Rirsch: "By all means
give us a new board of trade. Any
good management will be well sup
ported"
People are taking more interest in
board of trade than ever before.
There is constantly new capital
coming here and all the capital now
here is not in use.
The Globe: "To have a board of
trade organized is the only thing to
do. We need it in the town. Our
firm paid $12O to the old board last
year and would no doubt be paying
at the same rate now, but would not
when all Others quit, A new deal
is what we want"
w. r. Rigdon; 81 favor a board
of trade TO be conducted by men
who have an interest in our city's
real welfare, and who have no
private axes to grind. One organ
lied for those ends will live, other
wise it must die"
Damon Bros: "The business men
of the city sholld be organized for
everything that is good. Every inn
provement up with modern ideas
should be pushed. A live board of
trade should be had, and every topic
considered that Will in the least en-
hance the interest of our city"
]. H. Albert: 1--WE must meet our
past obligation sand continue eastern
advertising. We can get big in
crease In population and business
this fall. was asked to contribute