Bisbee daily review., 1916-02-15
BOWEN'S REPORT TO
 COMMERCIAL CLUB IS
 COMPREHENSIVE ONE
Officers of District Boosting Organization Have Done Much During Past Year for Betterment of Community.

Club, for the past year, is available. The. report discloses some of the great efforts put forth during the period by the officers of the commu- nity.
 The report follows:
 Bisbee, February 9th, 1916.
 To the members of the Warren Dis trict Commercial Club.
 Gentlemen: In presenting, accord ing to custom, a resume of the prog ress of the Warren District Commer- cial Club and some of it's chief activi- sire to extend to members and direct ors sincere thanks for the support which they have given to this organi- zation during period which l believe was the most trying that it will have to experience. Without such support of the members it's work could not have gone on. Its directors have shown themselves to be self sacri- ficing, public spirited, zealous men, al- ways with the general public interest and the true welfare of the Warren District fiarst in mind, always broad minded and thoughtful and ever ready to give of their time for the benefit of the club and the community.
 Directors Face Difficulties.
 When your directors assumed office a year ago. this nation and this dis trict especially, was in the midst of 8 business and industrial depression of far reaching and most discouragins character In this district wages had been cut ten per cent and working forces reduced from 25 to 50 per cent, the population had materially fallen off and every business in the district had been materially affected. While the business was counting the cost of every step taken, nevertheless the business houses, companies and indi- viduals who had in the past supported this club continued. generally, to give it their support. At that time there were vacant store rooms all about and many residences as well. Building operations had ceased. There was considered little likelihood of substal tial betterment in business conditions during the progress of the European was.
 It was in the fact of such conditions that your directors undertook the con duct of this club, a year ago. It was then their avowed purpose to keep alive the organization because of the good it had done in the past and might again do when conditions warranted but did not expect, in the face of such| confronting difficulties, to do much more than maintain the integrity of the organization and to continue its work so far as conditions might war rant
 Present Bright Prospects.
 Today those conditions are changed completely. Never has labor paid bet ter than now, at no time have there been larger forces operating in the mines, there are few vacant store rooms, very few desirable residences unoccupied, building is progressing rapidly in all directions and general business conditions are reported as al their best. The pay roll exceeds al million month and the population of the district is estimated at 24,000. In this report I am able to state that your officers and directors have been able to do more than they under took when the organized, that the club has continued to be material factor in the affairs of the city, dis trict, county and state, has maintained and increased its importance and has time and again proved it's usefullness and continues to show that 1t is dis tinctly needed in this community. IL was not until the middle of the year that the tide of prosperity had SC turned as to make it's rising distinctly noticeable and it has been since then that the club has been most active III several directions, but even early in the year it carried on its work as formerly in other directions, the di- rectors practicing the same care and rigid economy that they devoted to | their own business.
 Chief Activities.
 Among the matters to which the at tention of the Commercial Club has been directed were insurance premium rates, better trade conditions with and for settlers in the valleys, a federal building for the district, a Carnegie Library for Warren. to secure visit from the Liberty Bell, city paving, Brewery Gulch flood conditions, i'm provements for the roads leading to this district, border conditions, bring ing the Southwestern Mine Safety As sociation convention here, attracting tourists here via the Borderlan0 Route, drawing capital here for invest ment, expenditures of city and county funds, securing a Mine Experiment Station for Arizona and numerous other matters which with these will ko ,,,oro f,,Iix, dait unou in the rpnOrf