Imperial Valley press., 1909-09-18
Fl Centro Chamber of Con-
 merce as Advance Agent of Prosperity
Working With Enthusiasm and Good Judunent For the General Good Old Debts Wiped Out and Provision Made For Effective Promotion and Publicity.

About fifty members of El Centros :reorganized Chamber of Commerce at tended the regular monthly meeting of that body in the Palm Roof Garden Monday night Reports made showed that substantial progress had been made in working out plans for CIVIC welfare, and new projects were under taken with the same spirit of helpful enthusiasm which has thus far made the Chamber a successful organlza- :tion The meeting was continued un- til after eleven o'clock, nearly all pres Aent contributing to make it both in teresting and helpful.
 The report of the secretary, which also includeu the report of the treasur- CT. showed that on the old accounts about six hundred dollars had been paid and expended. Less than two hundred dollars now represents the towns civic debts and that amount will be taken care of from subscrip tions which are certain to be paid. The Chamber has on hand, as fund available only for new work, about S2OO, and since the meeting the secre- tary reports that he has met with splendid success in collecting the cur rent months dues.
 With the old debts practically wiped out, working fund ample for con- siderable amount of advertising and a working organization composed of able men and enthusiastic workers, El tCentro has Chamber of Commerce which is bound to be a powerful fac tor in stimulating the big growth which everybody believes El Centro Is going to have this winter.
 MT. Noland reported for the adver Using committee that leaflet de- scribing the advantages of El Centro had been published for circulation with 5000 copies of the Desert Farmer, which were sent to Seattle, and that the committee was prepared to go ahead with an illustrated booklet as soon as such action should be author ized by the finance committee.
 MT. Reading, for the Civic Welfare Committee, reported that it had pre- sented to the Board of Supervisors the matter of improvement of roads and that the Board had approved the pro- posal of extending Main street east, appointing the Chamber of Commerce Committee viewers of hte proposed road. The report of the committee recommends that th4 present Main street in El Cent"1 5c extended east about three and half miles and lnen north about one half mile along the north side of the i1olton Inter Urban / railroad and then east toward Holt vile. The committee remains in force and will continue it's work to secure good roads leading into El Centro from all directions
 |. Vi. Colson ye)l r1 that he la collected SIS to defray the cost of get ting the copies of the Desert Farmer, donated by MT. Baker, to Seattle, that the cost was $6O and that the balance of SIS had been turned into the gene eral fund; through representations made by MT. Swing the Board of Su- pervisors had refunded the $60 and upon motion of MT. Swing this $G0 was appropriated as lund to lefray a part of the cost of an illustrated booklet.
 The secretary was instructed to re- quest the Southern Pacific Railroad Company to have the train crews cease from blockading Mail street and also to ask the City Trustees to