El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-21
INSTRUMENTATION TICKET
MORE MONEY WANTED.

The power for good of the chamber
of commerce is limited only by its
financial resources. No great work
can be accom- plished without money,
and the only way for the chamber to
get money is for the members to con-
tribute it. The membership should be
increased by the creation of an auxil-
larry list of non resident members, and
every effort should be made to get into
the chamber every business aud pro-
fessioual man of Ell Paso. 1t may be
that some scheme may be devised for
having two or more classes of mem ber-
ship. It is certain that the membership
fee for the leading business men ar d
firms ought to be much more than q
dollar q month. The problem of more
money is one that has got to be met
right away II the cham Der IL 10 realize
its possibilities.
The time is past when any Ell Pasoan
can ask what good the chamber does.
It is the embodiment of the progress
sIve forces Of the city, it Ia the organi-
cation, with out (which nothing eff
fective on q large scale can be accom-
plished. The time is past when any
business man should stand off and criti-
else what the chamber does or complain
because it does not do this or that.
There Ia no close corporation about
the chamber. The organization be-
longs to the business men of Ell Paso,
and there is not one whose voice would
not have weight in the councils. 1t Is
only by the interchange of counsel
that the best can be determined upon,
and the more individuals that take an
active part in the conduct Of the
affairs of the chamber the more eff
fective the work will be.
One OF the most important matters
new before the chamber Is the putting
of the mineral exhibit on q sound foot
ing. 1t Ia true that the chamber has
In mind theGreat Southwest Industrial
EXPOSITION and theLouisisna Purchase
Exposition at St. Louis in getting up
this exhibit, but there Ia an Immediate
use for suoh an exhibit, and the colleo-
ton should be made of such q sort that
II will be Immediately as we'll as ulti-
mstely valuable.
There are two ways of looking ut the
mineral exhibit. The collection might
be pretty one, arranged for show,
displayed to attract casual visitors and
please the careless observer. Or 1t
might be made business exhibit,
composed not of picked specimens
but of bona fde mine run samples.
60 that from looking at the
exhibits a true idea might be gained
of the mineral resources of any par
ticular district or camp.
The latter way is far the best. The
mineral exhibit of the Ell Paso cham
Der of commerce should have enough of
the attractiveness of q museum to
please tourists, but the main feature
should be . carefully classified and
labeled business collection OF mine
samples, not picked, and the descrip-
tions not overdrawn, but every thing go
business like and strictly truthful and
conservative that men of business in
terested in mining would at once be
impressed with the great value of such
q coll ection, saving them many fruit.
less trip into the mountains, and at
tracing their attention in directions
where results would be likely to be
reached.
Tha. the work of Msior Davis In the
field is having direct effect is proved
by the fact that the Denver and other
big city papers are quoting extensive
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