The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-22
BOARD OF TRADE
MEETING
PROPOSITION SUBMITTED TO Es-
.TAeLIsH- LARGE COTTON
SEED OIL MILL.
GOING AFTER a SEW
ERAeE SYSTEM.

The Columbia Board Of Trade me
Thursday night at the Court House
with a fair attendance Of the men
bers. President Fry being out OF tn
city, Vice President George Z. McKer
non presided over the meeting.
The committee on membership re
ported with about twenty new name
for membership, increasing the en-
rollment to 13k
Mr.. w. c. Salmon, chairman OF tn,
committee on Law and Legislation. re
ported that he had gone to Nashville
on instructions from the Board TO in
vestigate the matter of the agricultur
al experiment station for Middle Ten
nessee, and try, if the station is to b.
established, to have it brought t.
Mary county. After investigation
Mr.. Salmon said, he found It to be the
opinion among the members of the
Legislature that the station would not
be established, but that plan OF co
operative experiments among the
farmers would be fostered, and he had,
therefore, made no further efforts
along this line.
Mr.. Yoest spoke on the necessity
of an experiment station in this sec
tion. He said that conditions in East
Tennessee were entirely different from
conditions in this section and that ex-
periments and Investigations made in
the mountain coutry were of little ad-
vnatage to the farmers of this section.
Fruits, berries and farm products
which would do well in high altitude
would in many instances prove of lit
tie value here. Mr. Yoest thought the
effort to get station here should not
be given up. On motion the commit
tee was retained to continue the work
and Mr.. Yoest was added to the COM
mittee.
Mr.. Salmon told further of appear
ing before the House committee haV-
ing in charge the matter of establish
ing and locating a Juvenile Reform
School. Il had been the idea of the
committee to establish this school on
the Herbert Domain, but after Mr..
Salmon had appeared before the COM
mittee and argued that the Herbert
Domain, where many of the state con-
vlcts would be employed, would not
be a suitable location for school for
raising and training boys. and that the
school should be in some prominent
locality where the boys would be able
70 see and learn something OF the
world, and where 1t would be acces-
sable to the good people of commu-
rity, the committee changed their idea
of locating 1t on the Herbert Domain.
They stated to Mr.. Salmon that the
matter of location would be left open
till after the Legislative recess and
that no action would be taken till a
from the Columbia Board
of Trade had had an opportunity to
appear before the committee and sub
init an argument for the location OF
the school here.
A communication was read from
Mr.. Allison Frierson, manager OF
large cotton seed oil mill at Aberdeen,
Miss, for the establishment of cot
ton seed oil mill here. Mr.. Frierson
wishes to establish modern, we'll |
equipped mill here with a capital OF
$4,000 and estimates that the an
nual pay roll would be $4,000. all OF
which would go into the local chan
1els of trade. He offers to raise $780,
700 of the capital stock, provided the
Board Of Trade will raise the other
J25, 900.
Another communication was read
rom the manager of large business
college at GAINESVILLE with reference
o establishing business college here.
Both of these communications were
.eferred to the Board of Directors.
The matter of better sanitary condi-
ions for Columbia was brought up by
Mr. Salmon and argued at some length
~ DR.. o. J. Porter. Mr.. j. A. Sloan,
Judge e. e. Erwin and Mr.. Frank G.
smith Mr.. Smith spoke particularly
If the danger of drinking water from
he wells and springs Of the town and
aid he had analysed some OF the wat
II and 1t was nothing more THAI d.
uted sewerage. DIR, Porter said the
natter OF better sewerage system
vas so evident that it needed no argu-
nent That the health of the com
nunity could be greatly improved, es-
,ecially with regard to typhoid fever.
I the town had proper sewerage
yetem. That man had to see and
nell for himself, to realize the pres
mt deplorable conditions. That with
are and cooperation for cleanliness
IN the part of the people. conditions
ould be greatly improved, but he had