Arizona republican., 1909-02-02
REAL ESTATE
 MEN BANQUET Preparations Made For aPeP-
 .mdnent Board THEY WERE ALL THERE
There Will Be Unity and Co., operation Among the Real ty Dealers in the Future. Plans Made For Better Advertising.

With hardly a single exception every real estate man of prominence ir Phoenix attended the banquet at the Hotel Adams last night which was giv- en for the purpose of organizing a real estate board. IL will be the object of the board to promote concentration and unity of effort among the real es- tate men, to regulate the listing of properties and to better advertise the valley.
 Forty five men sat down at one long table in the dining room at o'clock and by 9:3O they were far enough along with the courses to listen to speeches Frank Alkire of the H. l. Latham com pany, acted as chairman of the meet ing. Permanent organization of the real estate men was effected after the speeches had been made. Sid Henry made Q motion that committee con sistins of not less than three and not more than nine shoL'a be appointed by the clair. [" draft regulations or q permanent board, and that the chair man should be a member of the com mittee. The motion was unanimously passed and the following committee appointed by the chair to report within one week; H. B. King, Sid Henry. Elliot Evans, Charles. A Stauffer. w. H Kay, James s. Griffin and Frank Alkire. The place of meeting selected was the office of The Southwestern Realty company. next to the postoffice.
 The first speaker called upon was pr. John w. Foss, president of the board of trade. Dr. Foss can talk on any subject without any notice whatever, and his little dissertation on Farming from a Doctors Point Of View" was thoroughly enjoyed.
 sometimes a doctor gets a little more money than he actually needs for living purposes" said pr. Foss, then he looks around for an invest ment. We are prOvcrbially easy marks and many of the get-rich-quiCk circu- lars find their way to the physicians office. I am glad that the doctors in this valley have confidence enough to invest their money right here. When I first came here there was hardly any one who had a good word for the val ley I decided to stay and get the best I could out Of the land. I consider 1t my duty to get the best products out bL llLt SUI Al4dN NriAA Jt AclAoN- pAl n" 4 man whom I was showing about the valley last week said, If this land is so valuable why isn't it under culti- vation" It is out duty to cultivate the land we hold"
 In regard to listing properties Elliot Evans said:
 There is large room for reform in our methods of accepting property for listing. In Wisconsin we always in sisted on the owner describing the property. agreeing to a certain com mission and signing the listing. Com missions were never divided. We should make that rule here. The farmers here seem to have a habit of listing with every real estate dealer in town and one man does not know that the property is listed with any other. There may be two or three prices on property and the consequent confusion is easily imagined. We must work in unison and not try to do the other man."
 The next speaker was H. L. Pearson, a well known businee man and member of the board of trade of Detroit. He spoke of the business organizations in
 
 other had been eliminated till but two remained Then the idea of but one association, with bureaus for the di- rection of different classes of business, was put in practice with the result that the organization started with 25O charter members. each of whom paid in sI0O, thus furnishing them with working capital of s25,OOO. His argu- ment was for concentration and the di- rection of energy through as few chan nels as possible.
 He was followed by Sid Henry. who spoke on Some Commissions I Have Lost" Mir. Henry upheld his growing reputation as an after-dinner wit. He dwelt on the humorous side of the real estate mans affairs and told how he had chased an elusive commission up the Arizona canal, over to the diver sion dam and all around the valley without overriding it.
 The subject Of Land Values" was assigned by the chairman to E. J. Ben nit. MT Bennitt said:
 We all recognize the fact that the values are steadily increasing as the years go by, partly due, perhaps, to the