The oasis., 1908-08-08

the question of securing complete field
notes of the Bradford Map of the town.
In December also the Hon. Marcus A.
Smith, our delegate in Congress, intro
duced bill in that body for a 100000
building.
In January the Board secured special
contributions to the expenses Of the
Board for the year to the amount OF
$4,000 During January also the Board
made the rule requiring the names of
new members to be voted upon by the
Board of Directors.
The next month several important
matters were taken up. These were a
movement looking toward the cancella-
tion OF the Pima County Bonds the con-
sideration of a proposition for giving the
Federal Smelling and Refining Co., a
free site for smeter, and the taking up
of the freight claims question with the
railroad in behalf OF the merchants.
Owing to the fact that the Board lacked
faith in the ability of the smelter COM
pany to keep its promises, and the
evident desire of the company to use
! the Boards name for its own purposes,
the proposition was rejected, and as
nothing further has been heard of them,
such action would seem to have been
justified. Regarding the Pima Bonds,
after careful consideration and confer
ence with the Board of Supervisors, a
special meeting was called OF tax payers
to ascertain the sentiment of the citizens
toward a proposed payment of several
hundred dollars by the Board of Super
visors toward the expenses OF securing
the annulment of the bonds by Con-
gress. The sentiment was adverse tC
such a contribution, the matter was
dropped Regarding the freight claims
the question was turned over to the
Railroad Committee, who after severa
j, months of careful and faithful work
secured from the railroad company {
satisfactory settlement OF all differences
and the merchants report that the pre-
sent condition OF their freight claims il
: very satisfactory.
! In March contract was entered int
!, with The OASIS Publishing Co, for tn,
) sending of one hundred copies of th
! paper weekly to list OF one hundred
: boards of trade, chambers of commerce
= chambers of mines, commercial clubs
public libraries ETC., throughout tn
6 country, a contract being made for on
= year. By this contract the Board secure
: special writeups on the front page OF tn
= paper at stated intervals, and also tn
: advantage from an advertising stanC
:. point of the regular subscription list {
- the paper, in addition to the list of lC
- mentioned above. 1t was thought b
- " the Advertising Committee that thi
- would be much more effective way (
~ advertising for the amount of money e!
~ pended and would have the value
- being unique. AS vindicating tn
= opinion the secretary has received nun
"a erous letters from these commerci
q . organizations showing their appreciate
! of the paper, and statements containt
II in these letters show that from %
10 10 1000 people see the paper at each
no these commercial centers each montl
~ making the total of persons reached p
ho month, even on the low estimate of
oS per each subscription, amount to 25O
A. From this it will be easily seen that
.oi cheap and effective advertising this pl;
ba far outweighs the sending out of pamp
On lSlS. OI ObuSI uldIISl py mai dlbitoul
30 90 by the use of stickers on letters a
,st packages this line of advertising has Il
lis been totally neglected. Further publ
'or ity has also been secured throu
mt articles dealing with Nogales, furnish
w. to magazines and dailies.
lar Another important matter taken
int by the Town Improvements Commit
caI during March, was assisting the to-
IM m council in an endeavor to improve
M ~, city park. The board fence which h
" surrounded the park was removed a
tlv suitable benches provided by the COZ
rc. M ell, and plans laid for further impro
ito ments in the fnture.
his During April the Board completed
the payment of money pledged to the Sal
rye Cruz Gauging Station, and as the G
the ernment refused to finance the furt
operation of the station, the same '
to Of necessity discontinued. The Bo
It'll also appointed committee to take C
re- of the preliminary arrangements
DAD holding 4th of July celebration
also Nogales, and at the present writing t