Arizona republican., 1908-06-25

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 | called upon in due season. That is
 the beauty of this plan. It is both fair and cooperative and through co- operation this valley has secured all | the benefits it now enjoys. It has passed its worst troubles. One more pull altogether now and everybody l will be at the top of the hill.
 The committee had on the table 371 cards about the size of a postal, one for each man on the city list who had property in evidence that it is deemed should stand a portion of this burden.
 Besides the mans name the card carried
 his pledge for the amount he is will
 ing to contribute, and schedule with letters at the top, serving as a cypher
 code. The letters run from A to and
 one letter on each card is ringed. The
 key to the cypher is as follews:
 A, $12;7 B, SPA; c, s3O to $36; D.
 $60: E., $120; F, $1S0; G, $240; H, $500;
 I. s4O0; J, $500 up.
 If the letter A is ringed it means
 that the committee believes the man
 is able to pay SIP a year for this
 campaign, or a dollar a month. If the
 letter is ringed it means that $500 is expected from the man who is lucky enough to own sufficient valley prop
 erty,t to put him in that class.
 As fast as the names were called by
 Mir. Heard some person in the room volunteered to take the card made out for the man indicated. and call personally upon him and solicit his subscription for the amount named.
 Some of the business men took a doz- en or two of them and there was scarcely a man present who did not
 take two or three. It is hoped that every man seen will do his part. The committee has tried to make the ad- justment of the burden fair. The man
 who pays $25O is asked for no more ir proportion to his worldly wealth, than the little fellow who is only ask
 ed for SIP.
 Another point: The basic princi- pie of it all is that everybody who has financial interests in this vicinity should be a member of the board of trade. which has done so much for the increasing of property values. There are now 23s members. but there should be at least 500 members. Therefore, no assessment has been
 made of any person. who is not be- Heved to be able to pay SIP a year or more, and with every subscription
 there goes a years membership in
 the board of trade, unless the sub scriber be a member already. This is worth something to the member as well as to the board. Those who don't believe it should go and ask the secretary why. And notwithstanding the board has 23S members it is sur prising what a number of Phoenix business men there are who have not yet enrolled and given the institution their support.
 One thing more. Mir. City man may demur on the ground that his money will make valuable the ranch lands of the farmer. There is nothing to it. This is only the first heat for the fi- nance committee. It is already work ing on a farmers list and in a short time Mir. Rancher will be asked to do his part on the same sort of a basis. say five or ten cents an acre for the area of his holdings. Nor will there be any chance for the rancher to back off because the next farm is owned by John Doe of Massachusetts. A third series of cards will be issued by the committee for the non resi- dents and they will be kept so busy lodging duns that they will either come through with their just propor- ton or be glad to sell their land to some one who will, and let him make | the money on it. It is all summed up l in three lines. The board of trade must advertise. l
 It needs money to do it.
 It is going to get the money.
 Now about the meeting. It was called to order by President Foss of | the board of trade who thanked the | people for turning out so well on so | hot day. He introduced the subject | of advertising and of cooperation, | dwelling on that rather than upon the | of money. He spoke of | the prosperity league and what may l be- accomplish by cooperation in the | work of advertising. He introduced | Col. McClintock, chairman of the | boards advertising committee. The | colonel talked about methods of ad l Vertising and recited the features of a | contract the board has already made for | two months advertising in a list of | farm and dairy journals in the middle | west that will reach some millions of i readers of the most desirable sort. He {; also dwelt on the fact that this valley 1 has received more free advertising | than any section of the country | the reclamation work Not | nnly has MT. Blanchard of the recla- | mationc service given much free ad- | yertislng but such magazines and pa pers as The Geographic Magazine Out West, Pacific Monthly, Pacific Coast Cosmopolitan and numerous others. to say nothing of the entire August edition of 5O,O00 copies of the Earth. which will be devoted entirely to this valley and don't cost a cent, the Santa Fe railroad even paying the $500 postage bill.
 Tn view of all this the colonel thought the least the people could do would be