Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1911-02-13
SAN JUAN CONGRESS MEETING.

held Mt the Board of Trade rooms Wed.
nesday evening, Feb. s. There were
presents: President ]. A. Clay, DIR. W.
A Nossaman. holding proxy for C. h.
Moore OF Archuleta county. also Brics
Patterson of Pagosa Springs, X. X
Smith of Montezuma county, August
Fast OF Silverton, also Mr. Harry Pyle
and Mr.. Aiken of Dolores. Letters
had been received caller in the week
from w. A. Hunter of Pennington and
Henry Obendorf of Rico that they
would be present, but later letters re-
ceived few hours prior to the meet.
Ing that 1t would be impossible for
them to attend. but wished the gather.
ing success and for full details.
The minutes OF the previous meeting
were read by Secretary Raymond anu
approved. The secretary then put In
nearly an hour reading a mass OF let
tiers received covering subjects to be
handled along with advertising propo-
sitions.
! George Allen, In response to notih.
cation OF his appointment as mem.
Der OF the exhibit committee from san
Juan county. N. NJ, wrote from Day
ton. o., that he would be glad to serve
providing he would be home in time
Mr.. Allen said he had been putting
In good deal of time while east study
Ing the different methods Of advertis-
Ing, especially as conducted by many
OF the northwest sections, and that he
would be able to give some assist.
ance along this line that would he
valuable. He said that people in the
east were talking about the west and
he expected to interest many in this
southwest section. Mr.. Allen closed
by stating that the weather was abom.
Unable
A letter from W. T. Bozman gave
his Views on the matter of advertising
the district in the way of exhibits.
Mr.. Bozman said that he believed the
main work of the congress would fall
on the exhibit committee which he
considered the most important. He
said that Visits to the different land
shows had shown him why this sec
ton received so little attention com
pared to many others-that we were
lax In presenting our claims for rec.
ognition. In this connection 1t was
the sense OF the meeting that Mr.. Boz.
man be made chairman of the exhibit
committee and that as soon as Mr.
Allen returns that the committee be
called together and plans for the sum
mer's campaign outlined. In this con
nection letter from the Denver cham
Der OF commerce regarding space on
the ground floor OF the building for q
permanent exhibit was taken up. 1t
was the sense of the meeting that the
exhibit committee should ascertain the
cost and space desired and that the
congress counties be represented as
the building Will be visited by thou
sands upon thousands of visitors from
the east and especially those seeking
homes In the west. To this end Mr..
Fast, who was on his way to Den
yer, was given letter to Secretary
DeLong of the Denver chamber OF COM
merce to ascertain conditions and cost
and report TO the committee for their
guidance.
A proposition was submitted, or
rather general letter, from the sight
Seeing" company OF Denver. Lately
there has been a consolidation of sight
seeing cars and automobiles and the
new organization has plan OF pro-
viding every visitor to the city taking
an automobile or street car ride with
literature. The letter said a repre-.
sentative will call and take the mat
ter up with the congress II desired,
and that guarantee would be made OF
handing advertising matter to at least
10000 people during year. This was
left for the exhibit committee to take
up.
A letter was read from John Il.
Burns. secretary of the dry farming
congress to be held at Colorado
4 opiAu dohiuB lor Tue appointment VI
a member on the board of control and
the selection OF such a member Will
probably be made by the president
In few days.
The matter OF committees was Ia.
ken up. Archuleta county handed in
a complete list OF men who promised
to serve and II is hoped to have the
entire six counties completed as soon
as letters can be sent out. The ques-
tion OF finances was discussed and
1t was left for the finance committee
to take up the situation with other
committees and especially the exhibit
committee and ascertain the necessi-
ties Of the congress and then to eQuit.
ably apportion the sum to be raised
by each club or county.
The secretary was instructed to cor.
respond and ascertain the status OF
tie fund fer county fairs.
The bill before the legislature re-
quiring punty assessors to gather
and compile statistics was considered
and the congress went on record az