The border vidette., 1907-11-23
Board of Trade Meetinx-

The Board of Trade met as usual on ] Tuesday evening, with light attend
 ance of directors The secretary re-
 ported that he had forwarded the seal { design for the Board of Trade seal and
 that the job would be rushed to com
 pletion. This will give the organiza-
 tion one of the most unique and
 telling seals to be found in the country, | and will be continual advertisement
 for the town, representing as it does a
 design showing that Nogales is the
 key to Mexico.
 The railroad committee brought in . report to the effect that they were in
 receipt of notification from the freight
 headquarters of the Southern Pacific
 Oo. in San Francisco that a reduction
 had been granted on sugar. reducing
 this rate from $l Is to 90 cents on the
 hundred fb.. This in addition to the
 25 per cent reduction secured by this committee on potatoes. is notable achievement for the merchants and people of Nogales. and once more illustrates what can be accomplished by concerted effort, backed by organ ization. It is safe to say that had any single merchant of the town ap-- piled to the railroad company for such a reduction the same would not have been granted.
 The secretary repor ed having fur nished the Los Angeles Times with write up for their Mid Winter mum Der, and that arrangements would De made to send suitable cuts to the paper for use in the article on Nogales
 The Town Improvements Committee reported that they had taken up the matter of securing mail boxes at the depot and on Morley Ave, with In spector Lowe of the Postal Service on his recent visit to NogaIes, and that the inspector had promised to refer the matter to Washington at once and endeavor 60 secure favorable action.
 The Finance Committee, to whom had been entrusted the matter of an swering a commune ition from the Postmaster General, lately received. asking for an opinion upon the ad- sability of extending che parcels post service to a greater extent in the mails, and also on the matter of estab- fishing Postal Savings Banks. reported that owing to the importance of the matter. they would require further time for making report and were granted another week. This question of the parcels post and postal banking is an interesting one, and one which appears to have two sides to it. The local merchants in many of the towns throughout the country fear that the of the parcels post privilege to packages over a weight of four pounds would give the large mail order houses in the cities a dangerous ad- vantage over them in competing for trade in their own territory, while on the other hand such an increase of ,his privilege would mean great re- luction in the exhor bitant rates nov charged by express companies. With reference to postal banks, the bankers 'eem to feel that unless handled in other ways than the ones now pro- posed by Postmaster General Meyer, hey would serve to withdraw ready money from the localities in which hey were situated and concentrate 1t n the hands of the Government. As opposed to this idea is the contention hat many people would be led by the sta blishment of such banking facilities tt the post offices to save their earn ngs and deposit them where they would get into circulation. where they low either fritter such amounts away IT hoard them in secret places. The eport of the Finance Committee hould be an important and interest," ng one.