, 1907-05-15
QUORUM WAS
NOT PRESENT
LIGHT ATTENDANCE AT MEET
ING OF COMMERCIAL CLUB
AND NO BUSINESS.
President Out Of City and Vice Presi-
dent III At Home, Secretary Being
Only Officer on Hand-Natural Re-
sources Discussed in Informal
Manner at Meeting.

The regular meeting Of the Laramie
club was not held last
night, the attendance being small and
both the president, Otto Gramm, and
the vice president. T. H. Simpson, be-
ing absent, the one out of the city and
the other i'll at his home. The mem
bers of the club present spent an hour
in discussing different topics of inter
est. Secretary Gonden had a number
of letters received from different sec
tons OF the country, showing how well
the recent publicity campaign had been
carried on. These letters relate to a
variety Of subjects, from inquiries for
information concerning the probable
location of manufacturing plants to
anxious inquiries concerning the sta.
bility of certain mining ventures. Sew
eral very interesting letters we're
among the number, The Republican be-
ing permitted to use the contents of
some of them.
Interested About Plains Line.
Harry w. Neal, travelling for the
Lee-Glass-Andresen Hardware COM
pany, writing from Superior, Neb.,
asks what progress has been made
with the railroad from Laramie
through Centennial to Hahns Peak,
and whether Centennial would be con.
sidered a good place for a general
store, merchandise, implements and
banking.
A. H. Brandon of Tifin, O., has some
bowling alleys, billiard and pool ia
bles and a cigar stand outfit, and would
like to locate in some good western
town, some place in Wyoming pre-
ferred.
Wanted Some Resolutions.
Henry q. Reed, director of division
of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacifc exposition
for 1909, writing from Seattle, asks
that the Commercial club adopt reso-
buttons commencing the aims and pur'
poses of the exposition and forward
them at the earliest possible date.
D. e. Heath of Sioux City asked such
general information a may be at
hand with reference to your surround,
ing country and your city,
Delegates to Land Convention.
Arthur Williams, secretary of the
public lands convention, to be held al
Denver, Colo, June IS, 10 and 20, said
he would greatly appreciate 1t if the
club would name delegates and furn.
ish him with the names, as the dele.
gates may be notified of all the de
tails of the convention.
Natural Resources.
In the course of the discussion last
evening, a Cheyenne gentleman who
spent a day or two here recently was
quoted. He said that he was astonish
ed every time he came to Laramie tt
hear of some new resource. He was
very familiar with conditions here ant
had travelled extensively all owe the
state and gave it as his opinion thai
Laramie had more and better resource:
than any city in the state. While re
ferring to the great promise in many
of them he Incidentally made compar
rison with other similar enterprise:
elsewhere and referred to the fact tina
about $4,000 was being spent a
Green River in sinking wells and put
ting in machinery. There it is neces
sary to pump the soda from-deep wells
submit it to a number of processes ant
expend considerable money in placing
the product on the market. Here / an
told all you would have to do would
be to back your wagon to the bed
shovel the product in and cleanse it
having it ready to be placed on sale
with very little expense"
Market for Natural Product.
1t was stated that the two products
are very different, but that there would
be an immense market for the soda Sc
cured here, once it was gotten into
marketable shape.
The beds of clay at Rock river were
discussed, as well as the beds of gyp,
sum, plaster, cement and sand on the
Laramie plain, and the remarks of the
Cheyenne gentleman We're not consid,
cred e~xtravagant.
Campaign Was Successful.
The members of the club present
We're OF the opinion that the publicity
campaign had been productive of much
good. One gentleman asked about a
WOODEN factory here, another spoke of
the possibility of a large glove factory,
and others had various things to pro-
pose. An interesting note has been
received from G. ". Westerdahl, a
travelling passenger agent for the I'm
ion Pacific, who had charge OF the dis
tribution of the Albany county pamph-
lets at the opening of the Shoshoni
reservation last summer. Mr.. Wester,
dahl having been informed that the
pamphlets were not properly distrib-
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