The border vidette., 1907-08-10
A GOOD RECORD.
Of Trade for the Year Ending August 9th, 1907.


 present for your consideration report of the business transacted by the Board of Directors during the past year, covering period from August 24 1906 to August 9th, 1907.
 On August 18th, 1906, public meet ing was held in Armory Hall, Mayor Brick wood presiding, the purpose of which meeting was to organize Board of Trade. At this meeting committee of seven, afterward increased to eight, was appointed to draft a constitution and bylaws and was instructed to re- port to the Chairman of the meeting as soon as such work should be completed.
 On August 23rd, the Committee on Constitution and Bylaws having no ready with their report, n second public meeting was held in Armory Hall for the purpose of hearing the report.
 At this meeting the report of the Committee on Constitution and Organ ization, after some few amendments, was accepted. The organization as finally perfected called for Board or Directors to consist of nine members from Nogales, three members from the County and the mem bers Of the Board of Supervisors, making fifteen in all.
 As the result of balloting for officers and mem bers of the Board of Directors, Mr. E. Titcomb was elected as Pres ident, MT. Bracey Curtis 1st V. Pres ident, MT. R. R. Richardson of Pata- gonia, 2nd. V. President, afterward filled by MT. H. M. Chapman on re- signatiou of Mir. Richardson, MT. H. NJ. Claggett Treasurer: and the follow ing gentlemen as members of the Board; 1; Messrs E. J. Pellegrin, Con O'keefe, R. NJ. Chapman, H. w. Kelsey and Col M. H. McCord Of Nogales, and represent the County.
 The newly elected Board of Directors held their first meeting on the evening of August 24th, 1906, end since then the Board has never failed to hold it's weekly meeting; at which there have been an average of eight members present on each occasion. Probably very few Boards of Trade anywhere could show such high average of at tendance on the part of their Boards of Directors, and it has been very largely due to the untfring faithfulness of these mem bers that the Board has been able to show such marked progress during its first year of eX- istence.
 Une of the first matters before the Board was the selection of n permanent Secretary; and on August 18th, MT. E. w. Amsden was selected to ill this position, continuing to act in this capacity antil his death the following November.
 The Board authorized the prepara- tion and printing of 10000 copies of a small folder containing a concise state ment of the advantages to be found in Nogales and Santa Cruz County.
 Early in September, owing to exag- gerated statements in the yellow journals, Of revolutionary troubles along tie border, the Board took the matter up, and lengthy telegram of protest was sent to the Los Angeles Times.
 Other matters which were taken up by the Board during the same month were, movements for a better water supply for Nogales; for the laying of cement sidewalks; for reception to the Brigadier General of the U. s. Army, who had been expected to visit Nogales, but who failed to come; for the securing of a Carnegie Library for the town, and last but not least, the establis hment of a station on the Santa Cruz River, with the ultimate object of securing the building of a reservoir to store the flood waters of the river.
 During October the Board took up the matter of Legislative enactement looking to the allowance of a greater tax rate for towns of the size of NOga- les; the latter having reached the limit Of it's legal capacity in this direction. During this month also the Board of Trade and the Town Council cooperat- ed to give cordial reception to the members of the Southwestern Trades Excursion, on the occasion of their HlSil Io 4>OSdleS, anu tth cihOOi dl0 Io- ception was extended to the visitors which will be long remem bered with pleasure by both visitors and hosts Copy was also furnished the Los Ange- les Times for special write up on No- gales in their Mid Winter number, funds for same being furnished privately by the merchants.
 In november the Board was deprived of the very able services of their Se- cretary through the lamentable death of MT. Amsden. to whose careful, painstaking work the Board of Trade owed much of its success in the early stages of the movement, both in its finances and conduct of it's correspon- dence and general business.
 The Board took action guaranteeing the expenses of Government Gauging Station on the Santa Cruz River, for the purpose of ascertaining the actual amount of water flowing in the river at all times In this movement the Board was greatly encouraged by officers of the United States Reclamation Service, and received assurance that the matter should receive the earliest possible at tention at the hands of said service.
 Owing to the death of MT. Amsden, on December 4th the Board elected Mr. Patt R. Sullivan to fill the vacancy created in the Secretaryship.
 About the last of November the Board of Trade in connection with other bodies on both sides of the lIne inter- ested in the future progress of the town took up vigorously the matter of to have the Rio Yaqui & Pacific Railroad change the location of its terminus from Imuris to NOgales. | After months of endeavor in this mat 4 l. l-.l>