Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-09-11
LIVELY BOARD OF
TRADE MEETING
Several Subjects of
Vital Importance
Discussed
ANTI-sPITT|NG CAMPAIG N
Farming on the Dry Mesas
and Improvement in
Light Plant.

1t was a well attended and interest
ing meeting of the board of trade
mat was held in the office of the San
Ia Fe Water and Light Company last
evening and while adjournment was
taken before $50 o'clock, the sub
Jects discussed were many and vital.
\. H. Brodhead, the president, was
IN the chair, and Secretary ]. A. Rolls,
Corresponding Secretary w. F. Gwen
and Treasurer Carl A. Bishop were
at their places.
Many interesting facts were dis
closed by the reports of the officers.
Corresponding Secretary W. F. Owen
gave specimens of the many inquiries
received and answered and of the
success that has already resulted
from such answers in bringing to
Santa Fe tourists, investors and
permanent residents. He was direct
Ell to prepare a concise circular which
will answer the many stereotyped
questions that are asked about the
town and county.
President Brodhead told of a visit
to the farms on the mesas of the
Pajarito plateau and the success that
has attended the efforts to raise
crops without irrigation twenty to
thirty miles west of Santa Fe, draw
ing herefrom the deduction that
others can be equally as successful.
He spoke of the Brooks. Philips
Loomis and Abbott ranches on each
OF which very good showing has
been made this year despite drouth,
but he emphasized that the right
kind of machinery and the right kind
of crops and cultivation are the Sc.
cret of the success. He also dweIt OF
the wonderful work accomplished by
DIR. Edgar L. Hewett and his archae
illogical party in the Rito de 10 Fri
joles this year, the great attraction
it will prove to tourists and scientists
and the necessity of placing and
keeping the roads to the cliff dwell
ings in first class repair. The New
Mexican hopes to print the address
in full on account of its unusual local
interest.
The tree planting committee report
ed that it had a balance of $26 on
hand to begin next years work which
will be the planting of trees on Ger
rillos road from the penitentiary and
possibly from Fairview cemetery to
town to join at Montezuma avenue
the lines of trees already planted to
the depots to the plaza and along
the river road and around the capitol.
The list of contributors was read and
will be published later.
The committee on publicity explain
ed the Denver Post special edition
proposition and it was reported, that
together with the Commercial Club
which took the initiative in the move
ment, sufficient had been contributed
by local business men to give Santa
Fe a page in the first statehood edi-
tion of the Post.
The following were proposed for
membership and elected under the
suspension of the rules: Professor w.
0. Connor, superintendent of the
deaf and dumb asylum; Professor l.
l.. Tyler, superintendent of the Mary
James Mission School; Civil Engin-
eer Hugh F. DuVal; Professor Clinton
J. Crandall, superintendent of the U.
S. Indian Industrial School, and H
r. McGibbon one of the younger bus,
mess men of the city.
A resolution was adopted and So
appropriated for the purpose, provid.
ing for the printing of placards warn
ing against expectoration on the
streets or in the plaza and stating
the fine for each offense. Carl A,
Bishop was appointed to ask the Wo-
mans Board of Trade to join in the
movement by instructing its park po
Hceman to warn and if necessary to
arrest all those caught eXpectoratins
in the plaza. 1t was explained that
the plaza was getting to be the filth
lest and most dangerous spot in
town on account of the filthy habits
of healthseekers congregating there
1t is positive menace to the com
munity. Alderman R. l.. Baca was
asked to see to it that the city police
are instructed to enforce the anti
expectiration ordinance and that the
police judge impose the fine in flag
rant cases. DR.. L. A. Rolls explained
that in most health resorts the ordi
name is very rigidly enforced and that
the average healthseeker who has
been educated to the Importance OF
avoiding places where expectoration
is permitted on the sidewalks and in
the parks, would leave any town in
which the authorities are lax. The