Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-07-06
MORE INTEREST MUST
SOON Be SHOWN
If Board of Trade is to
Keep Up Its Work.
Report of Secretary of
Board For the Past
Month--Many Are Re-
questing Pamphlets.

At the meeting of the Board of
Trade last night the following months
ly report was received:
| Americus, Ga, July 5, 1910
During the month, that has just
closed, the work of advertising Amer
icus and Sumter county has been con
tinued through advertisements in
several papers, directing attention to
the pamphlet issued by the Board OF
Trade. Tw new papers were added
to the list in which the Board of Trade
advertisement is carried, the South
ern Cultivator, published at Atlanta,
and the weekly edition of the Colum-
bia S. c., State.
Requests for Information.
AS result of these advertisements
every day brings requests for pam
phle5s and for additional information
relative to the land and the prospects
in Sumter county The majority of
those writing for pamphlets state that
they are seeking to obtain small farms,
| OF from one TO two hundred acres, III
a good county. In every instance
| pamphlets have been sent and list Of
| real estate dealers furnished. In send
| ing these lists the names of all real
estate dealers have been furnished al
though several doing business in the
city are not members of the Board Of
| Trade and not contributing in the
slightest to the expenses of it's cam
| paign of advertising from which all of
them are likely in the end to profit.
AS this advertising continues the
applications for pamphlets and in
| formation are apt to become greater
months tie attention of hundreds, one
might almost safely say thousands, Of
farmers will be directed to this county
as offering opportunities for those who
are desirOus of making a change. The
| benefits of such advertising will in
crease in volume from year to year if
persisted in and inteligently carried
on. Under the existing local condi-
tions there is undoubtedly no work tie
Board of Trade can engage in that
promises to reap a richer harvest of
paying results than this
| Later in the year, in addition to the
| pamphlets now in hand, and such
ether matter as .his organization may
issue, there Will be in the hands of
the Board of Trade one thousand cop
les of the soil map of Sumter and the
government report that will accom-
pany it, Copies of this will be prompt
ly sent, as soon as received, to every
| farmer who has shown sufficient in
terest in Sumter county to write TO
| the secretary of your organization for
information. The thanks of the Board
of Trade is due to Congressman Dud-
ley NJ. Hughes, through whose efforts
these soil maps and reports will be
secured.
Finances at Low Ebb.
lac HHdlC6S Ol uHe bOdfu Oh lFdQe,
it can be stated with regret, are at
very low ebb there not being suffic-
lent money in the treasury to meet its
outstanding obligations, although there
would be ample if all of the members
paid their small quarterly dues
promptly. The work of advertising
must be curtailed, if not stopped, un-
| less members are more prompt in
meeting their obligations. Then, too.
| it must be stated, with additional re-
gret, that several members have with
drawn from the organization, including
some who would be most of all bene-
! fitted in their business by the settling
Of new white farmers in the country
adjacent to the city 1t is a short
| sighted policy that leads a business
man at this juncture to withdraw his
support from the Board Of Trade
when it has laid out a campaign that
| has for it's sole purpose the increase
of the white trading population of the
city and the building up of the county
in an agricultural way The secre-
| tary's work is such that he cannot
make a canvass Of the city for mem
bers and he ventures to suggest that
the present committee on membership.
with such additions as the president
may deem advisable, engage at once
in a campaign for new members.
Just at this time, when other cities
throughout the state are either organ
izing similar organizations to this, or
Strengthening those already in eXis-
tence, it would be suicidal for Ameri-
Gus to let it's Board of Trade disinte-
CRATE. Yet disintegrate it must Ii it's
members do not show sufficient inter-
est in its work to pay their dues or
attend it's meetings. The dues are
small enough, S. for an individual
member. and $15 to $50 for a corporate
or firm membership. Yet the unwil-
lingness to pay the dues is quite ap-
parent, as is also the willingness tn
withdraw from membership and allow
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