The oasis., 1907-08-10

rate for towns of the size of NOgales ! the latter having reached the limit oi
 its legal capacity fin this direction 1 During this month also the Board of
 Trade and the Town Council cOOperated / to give a cordial reception to the mem l bers of the Southwestern Trades Excur-
 sion, on the occasion of their visit to Nogales, and an elaborate reception was
 extended to the visitors which will be ] long remembered with pleasure by both visitors and hosts. Copy was also fur
 nlshed the Los Angeles Times for a
 special write-up on Nogales in their
 Mid-Winter number, funds for same
 being furnished privately by the
 merchants.
 In November the Board was deprived of the very able services of their Secre-
 tary through the lamentable death of
 MT. Amsden, to whose careful, pains taking work the Board of Trade owed
 much of its success in the early stages of the movement, both in its finances and conduct of its correspondence and general business.
 The Board took action guaranteeing the expenses of a Government Guaging Station on the Santa Cruz river, for the purpose of ascertaining the actual amount of water flowing i'll the river at all times. In this movement the Board was greatly encouraged by officers of the
 United States Reclamation Service, and received assurance that the matter should receive the earliest possible attention at the hands of said service.
 Owing to the death of Mir. Amsden, on December 4th the Board elected MT. Patt R. Sullivan to fill the vacancy created in the Secretaryship.
 About the last of November the Board of Trade Ill connection with other bodies on both sides of the line interested in the future progress of the town took up vigorously the matter of endeavoring to have the Rio Yaqui X Pacific Railroad change the location of its terminus from Imuris to Nogales. After months of endeavor in this matter the labors of all concerned seem about to be crowned with success.
 On December 1lth the Board guaranteed the payment of $300.0O toward the expense of the city fire department in securing new chemical engine. During the same month the Board took up the matters of reduction on freight rates into Nogales and the withdrawal of the railroad track from Morley avenue. An investigation was also made concerning the Tuna cacorl Forest Reserve definite arrange ments were made for establishment of gauging station on the Santa Cruz river and the Board took up the matter of the controversy in the matter of the Baca Float No. 3, land grant, with a view to rendering all assistance in it's power to the settlers in their fight for their homes.
 On January 2nd the Board author lzed the sum of $300.00 to be set aside for the purpose of the expenses of the Santa Cruz river gauging station, and Howard s. Reed of the United States Reclamation Service was appointed trustee for the disbursement of this sum. During January also the koard took up with our representatives in the Legisla- ture the question of pushing to success laws requiring Insurance Companies to spend in the Territory at least 50% of their earnings. On January 22nd the Finance Committee reported total sub- scription of $l2S900 to the Special Emergency Fund, created for the pur- pose of enabling the Board to meet their obligations with reference to their con- tribution to the Fire Department, the gauging station and other Improvements in this vicinity. Most of this money was contributed by the business men of the city and other good citizens who were alive to the great benefit which the town and county would derive from gnnh nnrnVnn1nntG Tho Rna rH olon | interested themselves in the matter of getting the San Diego and Arizona Rail- road to come to Nogales, and influenced the Southern Pacific officials to grant a change in time of departure of the morn ing train for Benson, from a. m. to a. m.
 The three chief matters taken up by the Board in February were the defence of the Wrightson mining district against by outside newspapers; the ap-