White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-04
OMMERC|AL
LEAGUE MEETS
PRACTICAL QUESTIONS FOR
WELFARE OF DISTRICT ARE
DISCUSSED BY BUSINESS MEN
STANDING COMMITTEES NAMED


the board of governors and heard re-
ports of the officers and announce
ment of the committees named by
the president for the ensuing year.
Charles S. Chandler, president of the
board. presided, and H. w. GILBERT
son, secretary, was at his desk.
After the reading of the minutes
of the preceding meeting. the sec
rotary read the list of committee ap-
pointments, and announced that
every member of the club had been
assigned a place on some committee
and had no excuse for inactivity.
President Chandler then told
briefly the work that has been done
by the board of governors and tho
plans they have under consideration,
after which he took up the list of
committees and discussed at some
length the points of Importance in
each Committed that had entered into
consideration in the discussions at
meetings of the board of governors
and made suggestions 10 the various
committees, which he said should
constitute but small part of the work
he hoped to see each undertake in
the near future. Particular stress
was laid on the value to this district
of the work that may be accomplish
ed by the committee on manufacture
ing and new industries. He stated
that while we are not at present a
manufacturing community, there is
reason to believe new industries may
be added and mentioned letters of in
quiry that have been received from
capitalists desiring to build manufae-
turing plants. Another committee
whose possibilities appealed strongly
to the president was that on land, irri-
cation, agriculture, horticulture and
products. Mr.. Chandler has in
view S undertakings for this COM
mittee, not only dealing with garden
ing on a small scale but hopes ulti-
mately that it may be possible to
prove the feasibility of irrigating the
now desert waste by pumping or
artesian wells and thus interest
capital its in that line to reclaim
much apparently useless land.
As proof that the soil of this sec
can be made productive he called
attention TO the beautiful garden of
Arthur Smith in the townsite. which
would do credit to a much more pre-
tentious agricultural community and
where. he said, Mr.. Smith raised
most everything from eabbages and
cauiitiower 10 lilios of the valley and
beauty roses.
Referring to the committee on
mines and mining, on good roads and
he said their scope and pos
were too well understood TO
any comment, but in regard
to the public Improvements and park
committee, attention was called to
he work that has shown such strik-
ing results in the identifying of the
court house grounds and further sug-
the ultimate making of a pub
lie park on the ground belonging TO
he county on Aultman street.
h subject OF good roads appeal
I'd to L. G. Cannon and he attached
a great deal of importance to the
work this committee has before IL.
said that with good roads from
Ely TO the outlying territory and
small towns and communities ad-
the merchants would rea IN
told benefit and that the cost of such
improvements would be insignificant
compared with the increased bust
ness and growth derived therefrom.
and that such a road would pay for
Itself inside of two years.
{. p. Castle followed along the
line, emphasizing the impor-
of this work and the benefit to
the business institutions which may
be derived from the increased trade
which would necessarily follow. He
spoke of the trade going to other
points which could easily be diverted
Ely and would naturally drift this
way, IL the roads leading into the
city were put in shape to permit
travel without the hardships that
must be endured to reach this
point. Mr.. Castle then called atten-
ton to h necessity of each commit |
tiee beginning it's work at once and
keeping everlastingly at il in order
to accomplish anything, for 1t is
principally in the work of the COM
that results will be obtained.
and that IL every member of every
has the interest and vel
fare OF the league at heart and does
his duty ii will be a matter of only
a short time until results are shown
and there will be no danger of the
being only a name and a
thing of uselessness. He than moved
that the next meeting of the league
held September y. and that each
committee be instructed to report as
10 progress at that time. The motion
prevailed.
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g. +. Foreman then stated that as
he meeting seemed to have resolved
itself into a good roads meeting he
desired to express his views as being
In hearty accord with the move
and that his recent trip
through the east had impressed him
with the value of good roads and he
regretted that this district has been
needless of this movement. He
told of the territory covered by his
and that everywhere the
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