Arizona republican., 1912-04-28
TRADE BOARD
 TALKS ABOUT
 UPL|FT WORK
There Were All Sorts of Doings at Various Meetings Held
 Yesterday
MANY VISITORS
 CAME TO CITY
Spirit of Harmony Was Evidenced by Charac- ter of Resolutions
 Adopted

With a convention of the delegates of the various trade organizations at the big assembly table, the committee from the Farmers Institute cOnferring with Professor McOmie in another corner. the office occupied by Edward F. BOhm, who is writing up the val Hey for the special Arizona Edition of the Irrigation Age" and the Tue son good roads boosters arriving, with Harry Drum in the lead, the board of trade room yesterday afternoon was the scene Of that enthusiastic activ ity which is so characteristic of the business men of this particular sec ton of Gods country"
 The trade boards convention which was attended by representatives from Tempe, Mesa, Buckeye, and Phoenix held it's second meeting, with Presi dent McClintock in the chair and Harry Welch acting as secretary. The discussion ranged from methods of advancing the welfare of the farmer and producer to the question of sep arating the Mesa section of MaricOpa county and formation of new com monwealth to be called orange" After an hour of general discus sion the delegates adopted the reso- lutiOns here reproduced:
 Be # hereby resolved:- That this gathering of representa- tives of commercial organizations Of the Salt River valley recommend that semi monthly meetings be held when representatives Of the commercial or ganizations can get together for the good of the entire Salt River valley. l. That the meetings be held in vari- ous towns of the valley the location of meetings to be decided by ma- i jority vote of delegates present at any meeting
 That meetings shall be held in no town or city twice in succession. ] That the presiding officer of all meetings shall be the president or
 other appointed officer of conner 1 cial organization in town or city in 1 which meeting is held.
 l That the meetings be known as county cooperative councils
 That individuals not members of
 any organization may be present at any meeting and speak. The voting at any meeting shall be confined to 1 three delegates from properly ac- credited organizations.
 i That the organization consist of i three persons elected delegates for
 one year from each commercial body. 1 An executive committee be formed of the presidents of the various or sanizations
 1 That the offer of the Phoenix board of trade to have it's secretary act as secretary of the meetings and to send
 out notices without cost to the meet ings be accepted.
 I Arrangements were made for the
 next meeting to be held three weeks
 from yesterday.
 At five o'clock the Tucson visitors
 arrived in two automobiles, having
 made the journey from the Pueblo along the last lap of the proposed 1 ''Borderland Route" which has been
 organized in Fl Paso by delegates l from all the cities of any size from ! Dodge City to Phoenix. Harry C.
 Drum. secretary of the Transconti mental Automobile Tours who has
 been logging the route in the inter
 ests of the eastern tourists was in troduced to the gentlemen assembled
 at the trade meeting and spoke brief lily on the subject of the benefits of the southern touring route.
 He showed that in Colorado, where the cities have supported the good
 roads movement about six thousand l touring parties had enjoyed the sum
 mer outing among the hills and in the course of their travels left some | 111illjnF dollars in tual cash in the state. Beside the actual money expended. there were innumerable other benefits brought tc Colorado in the shape of advertising and new citizens, for many were inn pressed with the possibilities of the
 country and became investors HC mentioned that millions of dollars are
 annually spent by Americans in see
 ing Europe, because the Europeans
 have been preparing for and advertis-
 ing their touring facilities, while the
 states have lost that amount just
 through their inertia toward the home
 boosting movement.
 MT Drum was followed by J. D
 Bukey. secretary of the BorderlanG
 Route and of the Fl Paso Automobile
 association, who recounted the incl dents of the trip from the Pass cit!
 and surprised his hearers with thu
 statement that in southern Arizona there is a road that for scenic pos
 abilities and ease with which it ma!
 be put in shape for tourists Is thu equal of any of the well known aut' routes. not only in the southwest bu in all the Rocky Mountain region. H. 1
 Continued on Page 8.