Arizona republican., 1912-09-16
PROGRESS GETS
 COMMUNICATION
Bulletin of Trade Board in It's New Form Calls Forth Praises From All Over Country; Some w ell Worded Opinions

It's great to be appreciated, fine to have your efforts noticed. and still better, when those who do the notic- ing bunch their hits and send in their cOngra tulations all in a stack
 When Harry Weich decided to abandon the old style mimeographed monthly report, his friends said, H m" The first issue of Progress" was printed and sent out on the first of the month For a week noth- ing happened Then the letters be- gan to pour in, missives of well wishers all over the country. That of Talbot J. Albert American con- sul at Brunswick, Germany comes from farthest.
 MT. Albert's wife is in ill health. Her desire to find a climate suitable to her weakness led the consul to take up the matter of locating in the west with the sender of the bulletin.
 Another very courteous letter is that of E. C. Mills of San Antonio, Texas. He has had his stenographer write the name of Progress in bright red capitals, wherever it is mentioned. He says:
 T have just received and read No i of Vol 1 of Progress, the official organ of the Phoenix and Maricopa county board of trade.
 T presume there are a great many letters of congratulatory character flowing into your office now and l want mine to be among them.
 When a city like Phoenix, ac- Ccrding to popular impression situ- ated in the middle ol a desert, sur rounded by country largely worthless from any standpoint, can so inspire her citizens as to prompt the publi cation of such a sheet, filled with such matter. l think that the time has about arrived in your civic life when the popular impression that l have spoken of. and which, during my travels I have found does exist, will be supplanted by a knowledge of the actual conditions. once such knowledge becomes general over the United States, Phoenix will have achieved the ambitions of her citi- zcns and accomplish her destiny.
 T confess to surprise at the state ments in the monthly bulletin for September. dated the End, and I be- leVe from a superficial analysis of conditions and contemplated improve ments, that your estimate of 30,000 as your population in 1915 is a con- servatiye one.
 Please accept my thanks for the Progress: the tone of confidence that runs through it's every line is an in spiration"
 The National Land and Irrigation Journal acknowledges receipt of 1 Progress, and asks for an article on Phoenix in the same snappy vein as the write ups in the bulletin. The editor is especially anxious to get a line on alfalfa and feeding in the Salt River valley.
 William J. Dutton of San Fran cisco makes a neat compliment on the new publication. He says: 1 Tn opening my mail today, I find | under enclosure from you, in place of the mimeograph monthly bulletin a ful-fledged publication. which does ! rot require it's title to indicate the i progress which your association and community is making.
 "I am going to take it home with me this evening, to read over. ant, 1 shall doubtless find lots of interest = 1 ing matter in it, as well as sugges- tions which will be useful to our | own chamber. and our state develop ! ment board"