Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-28
A PROTEST ON PROPOSED LAW
 IN OLD MEXICO
Douglas Chamber Commerce Gets Busy at Session Held Last Week = Agricultural Station in Sulphur Valley.

At a meeting of the board of the directors of the chamber of commerce held Friday afternoon, several impor- tant matters were taken up and active work will begin at once on several matters which will be of great im- portanee to Douglas.
 A report was received from the min ing committee relative to the propos- ed law to the present mining laws of Mexico and resolutions were passed which were sent to the City of Mex sco protesting against the adoption of this law which will handicap the mining business in Sonora to a con siderable extent.
 A report from the agricultural com mittee was read on the necessity of establishing at Douglas an experiment tai station for the purpose of demon strating the practicability of farming in the Sulphur Springs valley There are two ways to get one of these stations, either through the territory or through the T. s. Department al Washington. The Chamber of Com, merce will go after both ends and hope to pull, at least, one chesnut out of the fire. A resolution will be sent to Delegate Mark Smith asking him to use his best efforts to get the gov ernment to establish a station in the Sulphur Springs valley The Arigri- cultural Department has established a large number of these stations at diff ferent parts of the country and has never established one in Arizona. The other matter is to get the University of Arizona to establish a station in the valley. In order to get the funds to support a station in Cochise county it will be necessary to have a bill pass ed in the next legislature. It is the in tention of the chamber of commerce to follow this up and make every eE fort to get the territory to establish a station.
 The matter of having the chamber of commerce lend whatever support pos sible to the organization of company of the territorial national guard at Douglas and having the Douglas band made the military band of the territory was discussed at some length and was referred to the civic improvement com mittee to go into the matter carefully and if it is found for the best interest of Douglas the chamber of commerce win support the matter.
 The full report of the 4th of July celebration committee was read and on motion the report was adopted and the committee discharged and a vote of thanks was given to the entire con- mittee for their valuable work and the success they made of the celebration and a special vote of thanks given to the secretary for his assistance in the celebration.
 Report of the last meeting of the advertising committee was read and the committee was instructed to go ahead and get the booklets out as soon as possible and make out state ment of the entire expense. The book let is in the course of construction and just as soon as the cuts get back from Denver the book will be made up.
 Invitation from the officials of the 18th national irrigation congress and exposition to be held at Albuquerque this fall was read also a letter from Gov. Kibbey asking that a delegation be sent to Albuquerque also an exhi- bit. The president was instructed to appoint two delegates and the mat ter of sending an exhibit was referred to the agricultural committee.
 The matter of securing new mem bers of the chamber of commerce was discussed at some length. There are large number of people in Douglas who should be willing 10 assist in sup porting the chamber of commerce who are not yet members and it is desired to have every one seen by a commit tee and strong effort made to great ly increase the membership. A com mittee will be appointed the first of the week and they will get busy soli- citing new members.
 The board also instructed the sec. retary to have a telephone installed in his office. The general condition of the cham Der of commerce is good and the work being done is very effective Much more could be accomplished with more help iu the secretary's office in the matter of getting out more letters etc. However the business is growing and the secretary reported that already since the organization of tde chamber of commerce there have been several people brought to Douglas and the valley through the chambers efforts and many more will come a little later Besides this there are many things which have been accomplished whic1 have proven that the chamber of com merce is a most valuable asset to Doug
 las. More than enough good has al
 ready been done to pay for the organ
 ization for a whole year and the sup
 port which is being glve3 by the ma
 jority of the people of Douglas is a
 good indication that 1t will accom