The border vidette., 1907-08-10

 Santa Cruz River gauging station, and Howard $. Reed of tho United States | Reclamation Service was appointed | special trustee for the disb3rsment of this sum. During JanuarS& also the Board took up with our representatives in the Legislature the question of push | ing to success laws requiring Insurance Companies to spend in the territory at | least 50 per cent of their earnings. Oh January 22nd the Finance Com | mittee reported total subscription of $l2S9. % to the Special Emergency Fund, created for the purpose of enabl | ing the Board to meet their obligations with reference to their contribution to the Fire Departments: 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 1 alive to the great benefit which the | town and County would derive from | interested themselves in the matter of | getting the San Diego and Arizona Railroad to come to Nogales, and in | fluenced the Southern Pacific officials to grant a change in time of departure 1 of the morning train for Benson, from | 5 A M, to A. M.
 The three chief matters taken up by l the Board in February were the defense of the Wrightson mining district | against attacks by outside newspapers;
 
 obtaining subscriptions to a fund for improvement Of the road between Noga- les and Duquesne aud the cndeavor to get the Sc passenger fare bill passed by | the Legislature.
 In March the Board issued 5000 copies of a very hand some booklet describing Nogales and Santa Cruz County, at a cost of S450 co. This month also saw 1 the gauging station on the Santa Cruz River in actual operation.
 In April the Board busted itself in | the matters of securing for the Fire | Department more reliable income and | in securing, in connection with the | Council lease from the railroad fer a strip occupied by the spur track on Morley Ave-
 On May 9th a committee of fifteen was appointed by the Board for the | purpose of raising subscription for the Duquesne Road Fund. On the 14th | the committee reported subscriptions resignation of Secretary Sullivan was presented and C. M. Rathbun was elected to fill the vacancy.
 | The chief matters of importance dealt with in June were an effort to secure | the headquarters of the Chief Immigra- tion Inspector along the border for Mo- l gales; and the building of the Odd Eel i lows and the Knights of Pythias homes here; the consideration of the matter of the Government cattle tax for graz
 
 of a letter of invitation to Secretary Garfield of the Department of the In | terior to visit Nogales on his coming | trip to this section for the purpose of inspection of the Government irriga- l ton projects.
 In July, the Board, having been in- | formed by the Duquesne Mining and Reduction Co. that their policy con- corning transportation had been chang ed and that the improvements on the ID | unnecessary, refunded to the subs cribers the sum of 5000 co, the total of collections on the fund to that date Thus we see that the Board of Trade has during the year taken up some twenty -four different matters of great les and the whole of Santa Cruz County. Many of them have been carried to successful conclusion, while others, among them the securing of the Cana nea Road for Nogales and the install latlon of a Government irrigation pro ject on the Santa Cruz River appear to be in a very promising stage. Either of these two if carried to a successful conclusion will mean changes and inn provements to this section which can not be over estimated. It is a well known fact that the great Government scheme for iTrigating the Salt River Valley by means of the TOntO Dam had it's beginning in an endeavor by few lar seeing citizens Of that valley to 1n- terest the Government in such pro ject; and 1t is important in this con- nectiOn to remember that the Santa Cruz project offers many more favor able features to cheap and effective construction and control than did the Tonto project; features which will mean a saving of hundreds of thousands of dollars in the construction of a re- servoir capable of turning the Santa Cruz Valley into veritable garden.
 Beside the large amount collected in dues and membership fees, the Board through it's various committees has se- cured contributions to the amount of several thousand dollars and has col lected in actual cash the sum of S2139. CO.,; the balance with the exception of a small amount still outstanding on the Special Emergency, Fund, being subs criptionS obtained for the improvement of the Dug uesne Road. It has proviG- ed funds to the amount of $500 % for the gaugine of the Santa Cruz River, it has guaranteed the payment of d like amount toward the proper equip ment of the Fire Department and it has helped in many other ways to foster the interests of tho community in a way which would have been impossible of execution without such an organization. It has issued literature to the extent of thousands of copies, so that Nogales and Santa Cruz County are to-day well known to thousands of people in all parts of the United States, many of whom will become citizens of this sec ton, as e, fenced by the many let ters of inquiry received.
 The Financial Statement herewith