The border vidette., 1908-08-08
large key marked "Nogsles," openin g the door to the south

unite with the town council and the
 citizens generally in a celebration of tue removal of the spur track of the railroad from Morley Avenue. This month also saw the inauguration of the movement for Federal Building for Nogales and the taking up with the Town Council of the question of ! securing complete field notes of the Bradford Slap of the town.
 In December also the Hon Marcus introduced bill in that body for a S9O, ,Ooo building.
 In January tie board secured special contributions uo the expenses of the board for the year to the amount of S940OO. 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 movement looking toward the eau | the consideration of a proposition for giving the Federal Smelling and Re- fining Go. a free site for a smelter. 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 company to keep it's promises, and the evident desire of the company to use the boards name for it's own purposes, the proposition was rejected, and as nothing further would seem to have been justified. Regarding the Pima Bonds, after care ful consideration and conference with the board of supervisors, special meeting was called of taxpayers to as- certain the sentiment of the citizens toward proposed payment of several hundred dollars by the board of super visors toward the expenses of securing the annullment of the bonds by con- sress As sentiment was adverse to such a contribution, the matter was dropped. Regarding the freight claims the question was turned over to the Railroad Committee, who after several months or careful and faithful work, secured from the railroad company a satisfactory settlement of all differ ences, and the merchants report that the present condition of their freight claims is very satisfactory.
 In March contract was entered into with the Oasis Publ. Go. for the sending oe one hundred copies of the paper weekly to list of one hundred boards of trade, chambers of com merce, chambers of mines, commercial clubs, pu 5lic libraries etc, throughout the country. contract being made for one year. By this contract the board secured special writeups on the front page of the paper at stated in tervals, and also the advantage from an advertising standpoint of the re- eular subscription list of the paper, in addition to the list of 100 mentioned above. It was thought by the adver- tisiug committee that this would be a much more effective way of advertising for the amount of money expended and would have the value ot being unique. As vindicating this opinion the secretary has received numerous letters from these commercial organ izations showing their appreciation of the paper, and statements contained in these letters show that from 25 to 1000 people see the paper at each of these commercial centers each month; making the total of persons reached per month, even on the low estimate of 25 per each subscription. amount to 25OO. From this it will be easily seen that for cheap and effective advertising this plan far eutweighs the sending out of pamphlets or other matter by mail; although by the use of stickers on letters and packages this line of advertising has not been totally ne | glected. Further publicity has also | been secured through articles dealing ] with Nogales, furnished to magazines and dailies.
 Another important matter taken uI,