Arizona republican., 1908-02-09

which were largely attended, there be- i ing some three or four associations on the north side. It is just thatNsort of an association the board most desires to encourage. but there are two sides 10 every question. For a great many years the board has been struggling in the interest of the farmer and has done mnch to double and treble the
 value of ever:- acre of land in the val lay. Much more would have been done if the cooperation of those most benefited could have been secured. There has been less of cooperation in
 the city than there should have been, for every buiness man in the city should be not only a contributing member but working member who would attend the meetings. But if the city has been a little careless. what about the country? With all the good
 work that has been done for them, there are but two or three farmers in the whole valley who elOng to the board of trade, notwithstanding they have been repeatedly asked to join, and even pleaded with personally.
 Where there are two or three there should be at least 200 on the north side alone, paying their $10 a year, just
 as aY the town members do. The
 board of trade desires to still keep up
 its hard work for these farmers just
 as in the past, but il conceives that the
 other side should be considered and if
 the farmers are not sufficiently fiber
 al to join the board individually. their
 societies which represent groups of
 from 2z to % men should at least be
 willing to sign as bodies and pay double single rate. which would be $24 annually. or S20 cash in advance. If they do this they will be just as welcome to the board room as any oth- CT members. for the tax will be just about enough to pay the unusual eX- pense they cause and it will show their willingness to cooperate in at least some degree.
 In respect of outside societies which have no more connection with the board of trade than they have with the Hague peace congress they are just as welcome as they ever were, prOvid ing they come through with S2.5O per meeting. It takes money to maintain the board rooms and these friendly so- cieties make part of the expense. The sum named it was thought by the board, was certainly cheap enough for a public gathering. But better than all would be for everybody to join the board of trade, which would then be glad to extend these courtesies i feeling that they were given merely to a member of the family which had a mutual interest in the welfare of all. This is particularly true of the farm
 CTS for though they have had their lean years, the last two or three sea sons have made them proportionately more prosperous than the townspeople. and the board would willingly take their subscriptions and extend them all possible cOurtesies free.
 Other matters of Tuesdays business were as follows: Referring to com mittees the endorsement of the move | Iment tOr Q mining department; refer ring to the governor a roast in Philadelphia paper. of the Arizona in corporation laws; announcement of the securing of a coal and freight rate from Gallup to the south side;. refer ring to committee the request for in formation by Delegate Smith on which to base his introduction of d bill for a public building, and which information has already been forwarded; referring to 2 committee a letter from s. P. Et- ter who inquired how much it would be worth to the board of trade to have five producing oil wells within ten
 miles of Phoenix; referring to the ad- vertising committee a letter from a man in Norway Maine, who has a wife and daughter weighing 165 and 1SO pounds respectively, who is a shoe maker bv trade and poet by trade.
 who proposes to walk to Phoenix from
 Norway. and then publish his book, and who wants to know how much
 Phoenix will pay for an ad on the
 cover os t.