Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-12-18
MEMBERS MEETING OF
BOARD OF TRADE

called to order by President Camp a
Sis. Assistant Secretary Armstront
reported the efforts being made to sc
cure mail box to be placed at tn
depot, the mail from which is to b
gathered by the train messenger jus
before the train starts The matte
OF the small boy who makes the depo
mis- hang-out, smokes cigarettes ant
uses profanity was mentioned. and IN,
efforts of Mr.. McAtee were reported
in trying to do away with this unis
ance
Mr.. Camp then said: THE Durango
board of trade has been in existence
nearly one year. Interest has increas
ed and is increasing from day to day
OF course. there are some laggers. but
they are the people who never attend
meeting and who consequently nev.
er know what is, being done. Most of
them are getting in line The board
OF directors have been most faitnful
In attending meetings every Monday
night, sometimes when II worked a
hardship on them to do SO. Every
committee appointed during the year
has performed its task cheerfully and
efficiently" Mr. Camp praised the
work of the secretary. He then called
upon Mr.. w. h. Armstrong for a re
port upon the progress of the city in
six months. The report is as follows:
Durango and Its Advancement in the
Last Six Months.
First and best of all has been the
bringing together in closer business
harmony men with brains and money,
demonstrating to them that their bust
ness will increase by following the
old saw, Live and let live"
Business for the last few months
has increased over is per cent over
that of corresponding months of other
years. Our hotels; are crowded and
have been for several months. Whole
sale houses of larger cities begin to
realize the certain growth of this dis.
trict and are putting permanent resi-
dent statesmen into Durango. Our ma
chine shops are crowded with work
and are turning away orders. Com
mon labor can not be secured at $2.25
per day.
The rubber factory talked of and by
some made fun of, is here, with
corps of expert machinists installing
machinery, while the experimental
farm of 1880 acres has been secured
for the cultivation of the weed and
the company is trying.to secure 5000
acres of the weed. The company will
use the pulp after the rubber has been
extracted in the manufacture of stock
food, and the very worst of the leav-
ings viii be combined with nitro-glyc.
crime in making of powder. The cot
ton which grows around the crown of
the plant will be shipped and made
into shoddy wearing materials and the
making OF pillows. This industry
alone is worth five years Of the effort
of the board OF trade.
A cigar factory from Santa Fe is
here and doing nice business. An
other Touring mill is running to its
fullest capacity. People are nere with
the idea of putting in cement block
factory. A new commercial college
pect of building up large school. The
Colorado Investment company has fin
ished a large reservoir on the
Florida mesa which will supply sew
eral thousand acres of the richest land
on earth WITH water and the same
company is considering a much larger
reservoir in another direction. People
are here to establish steam carpet
cleaning concern and the same people
will put in a mattress factory.
Taxes have been reduced l per cent
for 1906. ga.
over 100000 lines of advertising
about the district have been run with
out cost in the metropolitan daily
newspapers of Denver, Pueblo, Colo
rado Springs and the middle West. The
board of trade demonstrated that Du-
rano was patriotic and pulled off a
Fourth of July celebration that
brought several thousands of dollars
to the merchants Of our city and ad-
vertised the town from coast to coas;
on account of the Indian features.
The Colorado Agricultural college
sent eleven of their professors to Du-
range and established "a permanent
farmers institute which will hold reg
ular meetings and be addressed by
authorizes on agricultural subjects
This will be worth thousands OF dol
lars to the farmers OF this district.
Through the board Of trade the gov.
ernor has taken steps to establish a
mining exhibit at the headquarters oil
the Colorado State Commercial asso.
citation, and also to replenish the ex-
hibit now located at the chamber oi
commerce building at Denver. prop
osition has been received by the board
OF trade from man in South Branch
n. j., Offering TO invest one-half the
cost of a creamery If the farmers anG
dealers will take the other half.
Through the WORK OF the board o
trade the Colorado State Commercial
association in convention assembled
passed resolutions that they would in
diyidually and collectively urge th'
next Legislature to establish and main
tain state normal school in this dis
trict.
Tho fol faf lie