, 1908-06-10

timber goes to the school fund and
per cent to the road fund. Take that
much lumber out of Laramie and you
wouldn't have much of a town left.
The unsatisfactory transportation
between here and Centennial is the
principal reason for so much business
being done through the mail order
houses.
The Carbon Timber is
ooing considerable road work on the
lower Douglas, as far as the Devils
gate, and on the Holmes road"
Club Asked to Act.
Mr.. Richards asks that the Com.
mercial club interest itself in the
building of roads in the Keystone, La
Plata, French creek and Gold hill sec.
lions. Mr.. Richards says several mines
would be shipping If they had good
roads to haul over.
C. j. Busch Of Denver asked infor.
nation concerning Laramie. He would
like to engage in the shoe business
or mems fusnishing business.
Stories for Eastern Papers,
John 7. Burns of Cheyenne asked
that he be fusnished with a thousand
word STORY" in proof-sheet form, $50
copies, with photographs, which he
will distribute among the newspaper
men attending the democratic national
convention at Denver, to be used in
the papers represented at that conven-
ton, and the president appointed Mr..
OFT, Mr.. Fitch n Mr.. Rogers as a
committee to prepare the article and
secure the photographs, at an expense
not to exceed $40.
President Simpson will call the at
tention of the board of county commits
%sioners to the contents of A. G. Rich
ards letter and interest its members
in a movement to take action looking
to the betterment of the roads.
A number of bills were allowed, in
Guiding hat of E. N. Rogers for thir-
ty-one views used in making cuts for
the Commercial clubs pamphlet, cal
bany County, Wyoming, The City of
Laramie" just issued.
Copies of Special Edition.
Mr.. OFT, publisher of THE Wyoming
Industrial Journal" who is preparing
a special edition for Laramie and Al
bany county, asked that the CONNER
cial club subscribe for and distribute
1000 copies at the rate of Is cents
per copy.
Mr.. Gramm moved that the club use
a sum not to exceed $3.50 in the circu-
lation of the special edition of the In
dustrial Journal, the motion being Sec
onded by Mr.. Rogers, who believed too
much advertising could not be used in
exploiting the of the City
of Laramie and Albany county. The
motion prevailed.
Amusements for Soldiers.
Mr.. Fitch moved that a committee
of five be appointed to consider the
matter of a~musements in the city dur
ing the maneuvers on the Grow creek
military reserve in August, including
baseball, horse racing, automobile rae
ing n kindred sports. The motion
prevailed and the chairman named the
entertainment committee of the Com
mercial club
This committee will also have
charge of the matter Of advertising in
the maneuver camp the athletic events
and other means of inducing the sol
diers and officers to visit the city as
often as possible.
Committee to Be Enlarged.
Mr.. Stickney moved that, in forming
the proposed addition to the enter
tainment committee, that Mr.. Cordiner
be authorized to appoint non-members
of the club to have charge of the new
work imposed upon his committee.
The motion prevailed and the secre.
tary was directed to inform Chairman
Cordiner of the action taken.
At $3.50 the club adjourned.