El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-07

At their regular meeting last night
the directors of the chamber of COM
merce discussed the proposition to in
crease the membership and revenues
4 list of those who might be in
duced to pay a larger assessment was
submitted by the ways and means
committee and it was also remarked
that a number of new business con-
Germs had come to the city recently
and all of these were entitled to MEM
bership.
II was figured out that the monthly
expenses of running the chamber in
Guiding the salary of the secretary and
his assistant amounts to $3.50.
II was agreed that the classification
OF members was the proper method to
pursue to increase the membership and
scope of the chamber. To that end
the following resolution was introduce
ed by Felix Martinez:
Be it resolved by the board of di-
rectors of the chamber of commerce,
that hereafter membership be CLASH
fed into four series, A B. c. and d..
Series A at $40 per month. series B at
s. per month, series G at $3.50 per
month, series D at 81 per month.
And resolved. further, that the bust
ness men of the city be presented with
the required application to conform
II was decided to draft brief let
ter to be sent members and prospec-
tive members setting forth the situa-
ton and urging all to aid in the work.
Mr.. Courchesne was authorized to
select a third member of the ways and
means committee temporarily in the
place of L. S. Stewart, who is out of
the city, and President Prudential
announced the appointment of J. A.
committee in place of Moses Dillon,
resigned
An address to the business men was
adopted in substance setting forth the
obligation of every citizen to support
the chamber organization. 1t men
lions as examples of the good work of
the chamber the mineral exhibit main
tanned and the number of large
sales resulting therefrom which have
put thousands of dollars into circula-
ton in the city. and repaid the bust
ness men many times over for the cost
of maintaining the chamber for an en-
tire year.
The progress made in the matter of
getting the dam and the gathering of
the miners for the organization of |
their association and the teachers con-
vention are called attention to as well |
as the matter of getting up an exhibit /
OF the agricultural ana HORTICULTURAL
resources of the valley as soon as the |
necessary funds can be obtained. The |
chamber has also proposition before |
it that may secure for Ell Paso a large |
manufacturing plant with the expen- |,
diture of from $50 to 800 for prelim- |
mary investigation.
The letters concludes as follows:
Every one who has read the news |
papers of Ell Paso knows what the Or
ganization has done and is doing, and |
every intelligent man knows that it |
is organized local effort of this sort |
that has pushed the larger cities of the /
west to the front.
The question is. will the business
men of Ell Paso, all and each of them,
sustain the organization by maintain
ing membership therein and paying
their share of the expense? Every
man who has business or property in
the city is benefited by the work of
the chamber of commerce, and a NOR
al obligation to pay his small individ-
ual share of the cost of maintaining
the organization. The facts and argyll
-4ients in support of this statement are
familiar to all. 1t is no longer a ques-
ton for argument. 1t is simply ques-
ton for decision"