The border vidette., 1908-08-08

tee during March, was assisting the town council in an endeavor to iIn- prove the city park. The board fence which had surrounded the park was removed and suitable benches provided by the council, and plans laid for further improvements in the future.
 During April the board completed it's payment of money pledged to the Santa Cruz Gauging Station, and as the government refused to finance the further operation of the station, the same was of necessity discontinued. The board also appointed a committee to take care of the preliminary arran- gements for holding a 4th of July celebration in Nogales. and at the pre- sent writing that committee has carried | through q very successful celebration of the national holiday.
 In June the board at the request of the cattlemen, took up with the rail- road company the securing of better rate on livestock between Calabasas | and Huachuca, and the former rate of S44 co has been cut to S3OOO In June, owing to vacancy created on the board of directors by the with draw of Mir H. M. Chapman from the city to take employ ment in Los | Angeles, the board elected MT. Ma nuel Mascartilas Jr. to fill the vacancy ha hoo ed the location of it's offices from the Piskorski Bldg. to the Mix Bldg, as the latter is much more advantage ously located and we secure two rooms for the former price of one.
 Finally the board conferred with the council at it's July meeting with reference to installation of modern sewerage system in Nogales. and will assist the council to the best of It's ability in pushing this matter to suc- cessful completion.
 Taking a rapid review of the work l of the year we see that that the board of trade has interested itself Tn a num- Der of very important matters affect ing the walfare of Nogales. The Can anea railroad. which was practically assured at the time of our last annual meeting has now been nearly complet- ed. The Baca Float Controversy has been decided in favor of the settlers; the railroad track on Morley Avenue has been removed; freight rates on su- gar and vegeta bles have been reduced 25 per cent; freight claims of the mer- chants which had been in bad shape for several years were straightened out; the 4th of July celebration was successfully carried through and the pledges of the Board for the fire en- zine and gauging station on the Santa Cruz have been met. So much for those things which have been ac- complishsd.
 Several matters of importance still remain to be pushed to completion. The most importance of these are the securing of federal building for No gales, the installation of a Govern ment dam on the Santa Cruz, the building of city hall and the cons truction of a sewer system in Noga- les.
 With regard to the federal building the Board is assured by Delegate Smith that the bill will almost certain ly be passed by Congress during the coming winter.
 Regarding the Santa Cruz Irriga- ton Project, the matter Is held back for the present by ths fact that the Government is now spending such great sums in other parts of Arizona. It IS unfortunate that the gauging of the river should have had to be sus- pended. s any project for irrigation with which the Government has to do always rests first upon the showing of water supply by actual tests and measurements. and any plan which receives Government aid on the Santa Cruz, must therefore necessitate a showing of sufficient stream flow. Though the gauging has been temper arily suspended, yet the value of the work already done remains, as the re- cords obtained by this years work will |