The border vidette., 1907-01-12
WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
Matters of Importance to County
 Taken Up by Board of Trade.

counties in Arizona was discussed at the meeting of the directors of the Noga les and Santa Cruz County Board of Trade. It was relative to the as sessment of property and the following resolutions, submitted by committee appointed some time ago to look into the matter, were adopted.
 Whereas, We the members of the Board of Directors of the Nogales and Santa Cruz County Board of Trade, believing that property would be more satisfactorily assessed if the Territorial Legislature would create the office of County Assessor for counties of the fourth, fifth and sixth classes, to be filled by appoint tment by the Board of Supervisors: and.
 Whereas, We believe that conn ties of the classes mentioned would be greatly benefited by the work that would be done by such County Asses sor, it Is, therefore.
 Resolved, That we, as body, petA tion the Territorial Legislature of the Territory of Arizona to create the of fee of County Assessor for counties of the fourth. fifth and sixth classes; said office to be filled by appoint ment by the County Board of super visors: and it is further.
 Resolved That Hon. Bo. J. Whiteside, representative of Santa Cruz County l ed by this body to use his influence in the Assembly to bring about the en- actment of a law providing for the creation of the office of County Assessor in counties of the classes mentioned herein; and it is further.
 Resolved That the Secretary of the Board of Trade be instructed to fur nish copy of these resolutions to the County Board of Supervis ors and a copy to Hon. B. J. Whiteside.
 At the same meeting MT. B. Cur tis loumed up as a champion of the home papers, making an emphatic talk against the patronishing of ad vertising schemes of outside news papers and other foreign advertising solicitors. The special write up of No gales appearing-in the mid winter num- Der of the Los Angeles Times was es- pecially referred to by members in the discussion that followed Mir. Curtis talk and the mention was not at all complimentary to that paper. The result of the discussion was the pres entation by MT. Curtis of the follow ing resolution, which was adopted by unanimous vote.
 gales and Santa Cruz County have been repeatedly and successfully ap preached by representatives of outside newspapers, and by solicitors for ad- vertising to appear in directories of various kinds; and by representatives of other advertising schemes, soliciting advertising and special write-ups of the business men and the town and county and.
 Whereas Such representatives of outside newspapers and other adver- tising devices have during the past fa xan Inf ha nd ty many hundreds of dollars for which the business men and the community have received little if any benefit and
 Whereas, We, ths Board of Direct ors of the Nogales and Santa Cruz County Board of Trade, believe that the money spent by the business men of the town .tnd county, could have been advantageously and proHtably used in paying for the publication Of special editions of the Nogales news papers, therefore it is.
 Resolved, That we, as a body, quest the members of this Board Of Trade to refuse ttr patronize such solic- ltors in the future unless they are re- commended by this Board of Directors.
 That irritating little water que stion was again discussed and committee appointed to asceI tain the present stage of the controversy between the Nogales Water Company and the Noga- les Town Council. The committee was clearly and emphatically instructed to take the matter up, i'm partially bnt az excessively, and do all possible 10 bring about an early amicable settlement. Messrs.. Curtis Ciaggett and Chapman were named as members of the commit tee.
 Another matter that will interest the travelling public was mentioned in the weekly report of Secretary Sullivan The secretary had written to MT w. A McGovern of Tucson. division super intendent of the Southern Pacific, re- queSting his intercession in the matter of bringing abont change in the leav- ing time of the morning passenger that goes from here to Tucson. The train now leaves at i've O clock in the morn ing and as it makes no connection at quest was made that the leaving time be changed to seven o'clock. A reply was received from Mr McCovern stat ing that he has taken the matter mp with the management of the road aud hopes to be able to comply with the desire of the Nogales people.
 Mir. George Falcon of Washington Camp, a member of the Board of Direc- tors, having resigned because of his instability to attend meetings, Mr. Ma nuel EscaladA Of NoGales was elected a member to represent that section of the county as MT. Fscalada transacts con