Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-02-06
STATE BOARD OF TRADE.
Address Issued to the People Of the
State


SEATTLE, WASH, Jan. 1891. )
To the people of the State of Wash
ington: At convention of repre-
sentatives of commercial bodies and
boards Of County Commissioners OF
this State. held at Olympia, January
l3, 1891, the Washington State Board
OF Trade was organized and constitu-
ton adopted. Sections three. four and
| five of the constitution define the OBJ
jects, the membership and the obliga-
tiOns of the members of the assOcia-
ton. These sections read as follows:
SECTION 3. The objects of this
board shall be to collect, compile,
publish and circulate information in
respect to every locality and section of
the State, as to its natural resources,
and its agricultural and industrial im-
portance; to promote, aid and en-
courage immigration to the State, and
the investment of capital in the
State; to establish and maintain ex-
hibits of the agricultural, mineral and
other resources of the State at various
places, within and beyond the State;
to support, aid and encourage any
measure or proposition that shall be
deemed a benefit to the whole State.
| SEC. 4. The membership of this
board shall consist of one delegate at
large for each Board of Trade, or other
commercial organization, having one
hundred members or less, and one adj
ditional delegate for each one hundred
members over one hundred, and for
each fraction of one hundred over
fifty; and of every person or corpora
ton who shall contribute at least one
hundred dollars per annum to the
treasury Of his board.
SEC. 5. Each member of this board
shall pay the sum of ten dollars
monthly, as dues, which shall be paid
to the treasurer monthly, in advance,
on the first day of each month.
| By vote of the con ventiou the head
Offices of the board were located at
Seattle, though at the earliest practi-
cal opportunity, branch offices will un-
doubtedly be established in every
county Of the State.
Under the constitution, this board
is made virtually board of immigra-
ton, and its work will be concentrated
in an effort to attract that class Of i'm
migration which shall be most valua
BILE in developing the riches which
nature has bestowed upon this great
and growing commonwealth. We
shall seek producers. We shall invite
farmers who have become discouraged
in their conflicts with blighting frosts,
burning droughts, and barren and un-
yielding soils, to accept the epen-
handed welcome awaiting them in
this land of promise and full fruition
of hopes. We shall beckon the capi-
tai and energy of older communities
to occupy more expansive fields and
reap richer harvests from the cultiva-
ton of the gifts of the sea, the soil
and the rocks. While we strive to
lead men into agricultural pursuits
within the State, growing grains,
herding stock, or laying out orchards
and gardens, at the same time we
shall strive to make plain to all the
world the constantly enlarging op-
portunities for manufactures who will
build up home markets for the pro-
duct of the farm, and use their capital
in preparing articles Of commerce from
the hidden mines OF the mountains,
from the forest of valley and hillside,
from the riches of the deeps, and from
the almost innumerable supplies OF
natural and cultivated wealth that the
State possesses.
In the work to be carried on by this
board, it is avowed purpose to faith
fully set forth the resources and ad-
vantages OF every locality, giving pref
erence to none. Equal and exact
justice will be accorded every portion
of the State, in order that the cities,
the towns, the hamlets, the mining
and logging camps, and the farming
communities may 60 hand in hand in
their march of progress. This will be
the effort of the board without re-
gard to the fact that some localities
may be unwilling for the present to
contribute financial support in further
ance of the work. 1t is to be essen
TALLY a State institution, though in
dependent of State support, and we
hope that the benefits OF our work will
be 80 evenly and equitably disturbed,
that within two years it will become
apparent that the board might justly
become an adopted child of the State
whose support could properly be pro-
vided by general taxation. With such
high aims and noble purpose, this
board cannot become selfish or limited
in its endeavors or in its work.
The scope and extent of the labors
of this organization will depend upon
the financial support contributed
throughout the State. Hundreds OF
thousands of pamphlets must be
printed and distributed, necessitating
a large outlay. and we hope to meet
with liberal cooperation. not only on
the part of commercial bodies but also
on the part OF individuals whose means
and ;nterests warrant them III main