Arizona republican., 1912-04-21
Session of Get Together Variety Was Attended by Several Repre-
 Sentatives
INITIAL PLANS
 WERE ARRANGED
Talks Were Made by Mo Clintock, Welch, Spang- Ter and a Number
 of Others

A meeting of delegates from the Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe and Buckeye commercial organizations duly oc- cured at the board rooms of the
 Mesa City bank yesterday morning The Phoenix representatives left about 9 o'clock in Dr. Dennetrs au- tomobne. spent the morning at the meeting and were back by in the afternoon.
 The work was of d get-tosether na- 1 turc, and aside from talking over var;- ous schemes of organization and out lining the future duties, there was little really accomplished.
 | The delegates met in the directors room of the Mesa City bank Those present were: J q. Spangler Dr. F. iW Wilbur. Mesa; J E. Cook. A. Niel- sen, L. F. Spafford, Tempe; Jas. $ ! Day, Buckeye: J II. McCHntock, A. J. Sampson, Dr. J. Dennett Jr Harry Welch. Phoenix.
 J c. Spangler of Mesa was made president of the meeting and Harry 1 Wclch secretary. The time was spent 1 in delivering short speeches. Chairman Spangler in calling the meeting to order spoke on co-opera- i ton between all parts of the valley urging that the different commercial bodies lead in the matter of extending Ithe good fellowship which should and does exist between the different sec tions. Dr Wilbur followed endorsing 1 the remarks of Mir. Spangler and as suring the meeting that Mesa was ready to corporate.
 ] Secretary Harry Nelch told of the work and purposes of the Arizona I Development Board outlining the plan of that body and advising a similar plan of meetings for valley organiza- tions
 Col McCIintocb. president of the | Phoenix board of trade. told of the
 work of the board which he said had i ever in mind the interests of the en- | tire valley and was always ready to get back of any movement for prog rcss and development of the entire community Col. McClintock urged a lplan of meeting every two months iwhen representatives of all the bodies 1 working for the development of the valley could get together and compare Inotes and obtain counsel and Sugges- ton one from the other. Gen. Samp- son followed Col. McClntock second ing the plan of having representatives from the organizations meet and con ] fer in the interests of everybody. NeiIsen of Tempe referred to the difficulty of keeping up vigorous work lin certain communities and expressed the belief that meeting every few months would do much to help small CT organizations along and keep alive the interest He suggested that the. securing of settlers in any part of the valley was a help to the entire valley. MT Neilsen moved that three dele gates be appointed by every organiz- ation to meet at Phoenix on Saturday.
 the 27th at o'clock and confer as to the best methods 10 be followed to heIp and advertise the community as la whole
 j. $ Day told how all persons who so desired would be welcome to at- tend the regular weekly meetings of the directors of the Phoenix Board of
 Trade and invited all who could to be lpresent when convenient. He was followed by Col McClintock who said the board would be glad at all times to see people who had suggestions to
 
 present.
 Mir Spangler urged a meeting once every sixty days when all could get together. compare notes and plan work lin unison he congratulated all on the better feeling, continually growing,
 which was evidenced all over the Salt River valley.
 Col McClintocl referred to the or ganization of the Arizona Producers association as a cooperative body that
 would do much to bring the farmers
 together and benefit all parts of the
 valley and suggested that Foster Rock
 well be asked to attend the meeting on Saturday next and tell of the scope
 of the organization of growers. He suggested that anyone with "a mes sage" would be welcomed at the meet ling Both suggestions were heartily
 endorsed.
 Secretary Welch gave an outline oi the work of immigration bureaus ir different states and pointed out the advantage of state organization
 working along development lines. IT tthe course of the report it was stated lthat eastern states were spending money advertising for settlers. Soutl
 Carolina appropriating $15.000: Nortl Carolina, $f0.00O; Tennessee expendins
 each year $10,000 and the railroads ot that state spending $5000O more , Coming nearer home it was learned that New Mexico has for two ol , three years been spending about SIP, 900 and this year has a bill before its , Legislature asking for $3O,000 for state
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