The daily morning oasis., 1919-12-28
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business handled mounting well into

business handled mounting well into
six figures.
The Federal Building Committed,
after much exhaustive work, succeed
ed in having C4ie Government select
location for the proposed building
at the southeast corner of Court
street and Grand avenue. Negotia-
tions for the property are now under
way between the Government and the
railway company, which owns the
property. Local people have bonded
themselves to raise several thousand
dollars to aid in securing the land for
the Government.
While all our activities have not
met with entire success, and many Of
them are still without result, the Sec
retary feels that as a whole our aver
age of accomplishments have been
high. There is unlimited community
work to be done, but our activities
are restricted in exact proportion to
the funds available.
The Secretary has been informed by
disinterested outsiders that we are
| accomplishing more, dollar for dollar
spent, than any other Chamber of
Commerce in the Southwest if not in
the entire country. There are COM
munities the size of Nogales that
spend no more, or even less, but those
communities do not have the ques-
tions of international trade that we
have to contend with and do not
handle the immense amount of busi-
ness that Nogales handles. More
than 5000 letters, circulars, postcards,
Ton oo1 9TH i1oh1a
ter have been sent out during the
copies of the special edition of local
paper to its mailing list, and the Y. B.
M. A. has sent out like number.
The interest in community develop
ment has been growing rapidly. The
Army and Navy Union, the American
Legion and the Y. B. M. A. have
taken their places in the city of No
gales. In Patagonia, a Chamber Of
Commerce has been established, and
its initial activities are indicative Of
much future benefit for that town.
Committees from that organization,
from the Y. B. M. A and from this
Chamber co-operated to have tele-
phone communication between Mo-
gales and Patagonia direct estab-
lished, with the result that it has been
promised for early in 1920. In San
I Rafael Valley the farmers have just
organized a cooperative association
to secure better roads and to secure
markets for and properly market their
| products. This step for more busi-
ness-like methods on the part of the
farmers, if properly continued, will
| result not only in greater net profits
20 themselves but also should bring
into the Nogales market local prod
ucts to the advantage of the entire
community.
The Y. B. M. A. has succeeded in
having the Forest Service do extern
sive work on the Potrero Canyon Loop
| Road Negotiations are under way
to have the War Department do GER
tain other work on that road, but in
any case funds are available to make
| the entire loop drive a comfortable
pleasure trip. This new association
has also vigorously taken up the SUBJ
| iect of securing an airplane station
here, and the Secretary is informed
| that the ground has been leased and
equipment shipped for the establish
ment of War Department Border Pa
| troll fleet here.
Particular attention is called to the
| volume of local, national and state
wide publicity which Nogales and vi
| cinity has been securing. National
magazines such as Travel, Sunset,
National Geographic, have carried
special articles about our city, county
or tributory territory, and these have
resulted directly in numerous in
| quiries about Nogales and vicinity.
| Despite certain undesirable condi-
tions statistics show that the fiscal
year ending last July was Mexico's
biggest in foreign trade; and 80 per
cent of the Mexican exports came to
the U. S. Nogales received goodly
share of that business. With the rail-
road doing reconstruction work be-
tween Mazatlan and Topic, and pre-
liminary surveys under way to con-
meet the latter point via Guadalajara
with Mexico City, there is every
reason to be optimistic for the future.
The Secretary recommends that IN
1920 particular effort be devoted to
bringing in new capital to Nogales
and Santa Cruz County. There are
opportunities in the hotel, apartment
house, contracting and subdivision
businesses, but local men appear to
be handicapped by lack of capital to
carry on the operations on the large
scale necessary for complete success.
With the possibility of great amounts
being expended for city improvements
during the coming year, outside capi-
tai should be secured readily.
There should also be definite plan
evolved for the city's layout, so that
mistakes of the past will not be re-
peated. 1t would be we'll worth while
to employ an expert to make plans
for the future Nogales, in which
should be anticipated civic center,
public buildings, city parks, and the
like. A city is in itself the biggest
business and biggest interest of its
inhabitants-or should be-and to al
low a community to ~~ow on hap
hazard, without plan or reason, is
little removed from criminal negli-
gence. If, for instance, the peonle OF
Nogales decade apo had looked for
ward. we might have been saved the
difficulties we have met in securing
location for Federal Building, public
market, and the like. This subject
cannot be too strongly emphasized.
The Chamber of Commerce should
take immediate and energetic meas
ures towards instituting a definite
plan for the layout of the Nogales
of the future. The difference between
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