El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-09
OMEN 0? GOOD PROMISE
Cooperative and Determined Effort
On the Part of Our Business
Men Will Almost Certainly OBJ
tain for Us One of the Greatest
Exhibits Ever Seen In the West

missioner might be pursuaded the cir
cumstances warranted.
Commissioner Davis replied as fol-
lows:
Mr.. S. M. DAVIS, Ell Paso. Tex.
Dear Sir
Replying to yours under date of the
22nd. inst.. would state that our COM
pauy is disposed to do all it can to ward
the collection and exhibition OF a cre-
ditsble mineral display at some point
in New Mexico or at Ell Paso. Before
stating the measure and direction of
our assistance it would be necessary
for me to know how much money has
been provided for the purpose. We
are frequently solicited in matters of
| this kind and have given help in .
without any result whatever, simply
there was no money provided with
which to make the collection or to
nc aintain it after being made.
Yours very truly,
JAMES A. DAVIS.
S. NJ. Davis turned the commission
er's reply over to Secretary Russell Of
the cham Der of commerce. who replied
rs follows:
FL Paso, Texas, June 2, 1900.
Mr.. James A. Davis,
Industrial Commissioner,
A. T. & 8. F. Ry. System,
Chicago, Ill.
Dear Sir Mr.. s. M. Davis of this
city has re- erred to me your letter OF
May % to him regarding the mineral
exhibit which is being collected by the
El Paso chamber of commerce for per-
manent display In Its rooms in this
city. In your letter to Mr.. Davis you
cay, ''before stating the measure and
direction of our assistance, 1t would be
necessary for me to know how much
pose."
1 fully agree with you that you are
entitled TO know whas we are doing tor
ourselves before determining what you
should do to assist and coop rate with
US.
The chamber of commerce was Or
Ranizsd last November. 1t has now .
bona fde paying mem bership of about
220. The members pay upon joining a
mem bership fee Of 50, and thereafter
Ell Psso smelling works, the Sierra
Madre Railroad Co. and the Ell Peso
& Northeastern Rsilwsy Co. pay SIS
per month each toward the colleotlon
and maintenance of the exhibit. Oar
mem bership is still growing and We ex-
pect within short time to have a
monthly income of $500 or more. The
Santa Fe representative here, Mr.. F.
B. Houghton, Is a mem Der of the cham
ber and OF the committee on immigra-
tion
The chamber has leased q piece of
ground for three years and is erecting
a building upon it with funds bor-
rowed from the members This is in
tended to give the chamber quarters
until suitable piece of ground can be
purchased and funds procured for erect
ing building worthy of the city and
the interests which the chamber is de-
signed to promote.
The purpose of the organization is to
| work along all lines which appear to
offer opportunity for Fastening the
Idevelopment of the resources of the
city and tributary country for three
hundred or four hundred miles radius.
One of the objects Ia to make Ell Paso
| 4 popular convention city; another, to
increase its popularity as q health and
winter resort; another, to foster it's
commercial Interests; and another, to
collect and maintain a free exhibit of
minerals, agricultural and horticultur-
| al products, marbles, building stone,
| range grasses, photos, curiOs and
everything that can be made effective
for enIisting the interest of the tourist
and visitor.
That Ell Psso ia the natural a nd pro-
per location for an exhib bit of New Mex
| leo products and resources is clear from
| the geographic position of the city and
the number of railroads centeripg
! here. Ten persons, possibly q hundred
persons, would visit an exhibit here
| where cne person would see it If locat-
ed in some town in New Mexico.
1t has been proposed and
the suggestion meets with much
| favor, that we undertake to hold
an international exposition in Ell Psso
| u year from next autumn and winter,
| to cover especially the resources OF
| west Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and
| northern Mexico. 1t is believed that
! we can secure the support an6 fnanci-
| al aid of Mexico for such an ente rprise,
| and also aa appropriation from Con-
gress.
May we not have your cooperation
10 the work OF the Chamber along
these lines? Any advice or sueges-
tion that you can make will be hearth
Iy welcomed by our officers and direct
ors and the mem bership of the cham
Der generally.
CONTINUED on fourth page).