The border vidette., 1907-02-02
WILL S. D. & A. ROAD COME HERE
Board Of.Trade VIII TrV to Get It and VIII Try to Re-FOrest Santa
 Cruz County.

Tuesday night the scarcity Of firewood was discussed by the Board of Directors of the Nogales and Santa Cruz County Board of Trade and action was taken that in time may lead to wonderful transformations in the southwest. The secretary was instrusted to correspond with the United States Chief Forester, Mir. Clifford Pin chot of Washington, D. C., and ascertain what class of fuel trees is best adapted to this climate and soil. The purpose is to cultivate such trees. If the movement can be given sufficient impetus the years that are coming may see new forests spring up in the valleys, on the mesas and foothills of the southwest The experiment of cultivating the trees will be made in Santa Cruz County and if suc- cessful, as the directors seem to think it will be, the movement may be expected to spread through out the entire southwest.
 Another interesting subject dis cussed Tuesday night was the San Diego and Arizona railroad, AOW oAlN Co AIOhl ACbu DlSSO, California to Yuma, Arizona, and which will be extended further west along the boI der. The peculiar location of Nogales, making it the gateway to the rich mineral dis tricts of Sonora and Sinaloa and to all the west coast of Mexico, makes the town a. most desirable point for transcontinental railroad lines to touch at. Realizing this advant- age the Board of Trade will make determined effort to have the new road built into this town. To bring the matter as strongly as possibly before the prom otors of the new road, and that they may be given some substantial truths about section of the world, the richness and resources, of which the residents of the rest of the world seem to have but little realization, President Titcomb appointed a special railroad committee compos- ed of Messrs. H w. Kelsey, H. M. Chapman and Patt R. Sullivan Captain c. E. Perkins was asked and consented to act in co-opera- tion with the committee and to furnish such drawings and maps of the surrounding country as might be desired by the committee in their intercourse with the pro- motors of the San Diego line.
 Town Councilman Peck was pre- sent at the meeting and brought up the matter of town taxes. As the belief IS quite general that the Territorial Legislature will prohibit l@1 off a revenue upon which many of the smaller towns have depended to large extent for money to de- fray municipal expenses, the ques- ton of asking the legislature to pass a bill enabling towns of the size and population of Nogales to increase it's revenue by means of increased taxation. It was shown that the limit of taxation allowed by territorial statutes now in force has been reached by Nogales and the cutting off of the revenue deriv- ed from games of chance will have a tendency to cause shortage of funds. The committee on town improvements was instructed to act with the town council in pre- pairing a petition to the legislature asking for legislation that will enable towns like Nogales to meet the emergency, by increased levies on property.
 It was reported at the meeting that a new time card is now being prepared by railroad officials affect ing towns on the railroad in this county. It is to the effect that the train from Sonora will arrive in Nogales at seven o'clock in the morning.
 The financial committee submit ed written report showing that the business men and property owners have subscribed $1 ,26O to the Board of Trade fund.
 Another matter on which discus sion was started by Councilman Peck was that of beautifying the town. The proposition was made that the town council be asked to adopt an ordinance providing that property owners plant shade trees in front of their lots. The matter was referred to the committee on town improvements with instruc tions that the committee act with the town council in the matter.
 P k. S.