The daily sentinel., 1904-03-02
THE SMOKER
A SUCCESS.

The meeting OF the Chamber OF
Commerce last night, in the nature of
a smoker was a success. There
should have been a great many more
members present than there were. in
fact only six members of the board of
directors were present.
There was plenty of work and some
good talks on the various subjects.
but the work was to some extent multi
fed by so few being present. There
were perhaps fifty present, when there
should have been one hundred and
/ fifty. r. A. Orr had been assigned
the subject, -. Permanent Home for
the Chamber of Commerce and its
Kindred Interests. "
Mr.. Orr dwelt at length upon the
need of such building for the display
of all classes of products of the Grand
/ Valley. He said that not only fruit
in season, but grains, vegetables,
grasses, coal, copper and other miner
ais should be made part of the display,
as well as the product of our manu-
featuring concerns. He dwelt upon
the fact that in cities of the coast
that he had visited that this plan of
making display for the benefit of Wis
itors had been adopted and that it had
been found to be a paying investment.
These rooms were found to be crowd
ed from early morning to late at night
with visitors and possible investors.
Mr.. Orr exhausted the subject in his
we'll timed remarks. He is verv en-
thusiastic over the matter aud hopes
soon to see the Chamber Of Commerce
in quarters that will comprehend such
display and give ampler room for
other business of the Chamber.
A. r. Sampliner. Henry r. Rhone,
George Smith and J. A. Lyons very
ably supplemented the remarks of Mr..
Orr.
1.-The Sinbad Mines-A new Terri
tory Whose Trade Should be Ours and
How to Get It..
The leading discussion on this ques-
tion and tonic was by George Smith,
aggressive, enthusiastic George Smith,
who is always ready and willing to
put his shoulder to the wheel to make
things move along for progress. Mr..
Smith had an outline map of road
that could be built to the Sinbad
mines. connecting with the Paradox
valley. Here he said was consider
able population that should draw
their supplies from Grand Junction,
if there was decent road to that
point. AT present they buy at Mont
rose. Placervllle and Moab. points
that are situated ten or twenty miles
further away from their homes than
is this city. He said that the major
portion of the country would much
prefer to trade here if the county
would build a road to the entrance of
the valley, which would all be in
Mesa county. The Cashin mines and
other productive mines require large
amounts of supplies. and these would
be purchased here.
Upon this subject Messrs. II. W.
Edwards of the Smelter and George
Caldwell both of whom are quite
familiar with the country. presented
some interesting data. There are mines
that ould be feeders to the Smelter
if the road could be built.
A resolution was presented by Mr..
Smith and amended by Sec. @. d.
Fisher of the Chamber which was in
effect that the matter be referred to
the board of directors of the Chamber
and by them referred to a competent
committee. which would thoroughly
investigate the possibility of such a
road and also secure sufficient data for
report to the board of county commits
sioners.
A verv delightful interlude to the
! evenings proceedings was a quartet
by Messrs. Leslie, Blair, Fletcher and
Johnson. Their first song was so
splendidlv rendered that they were
compelled to respond to recall.
''How to Get the Federal Build
ing. This subject had been assign
the work of the previous attempt t.
secure the location of Federal build
ing in Grand Junction. The matter of
the formation of state clubs was Civ
en- in detail and the effective work ac-
complished by their aid.
Mr.. Bunting believed that notwith-
standing the fact that the letters from
Colorado's representatives in Congress
had been of ra her disc )uraging nature,
because of an evident understanding
that few appropriations should be
made that the present is as opportune
time as we would ever have.
The whole subject was fully gone
over in the remarks made by Mr..