Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-03
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE and
Mines SUPPORTS ALL The
GOOD THINGS that APPEAR
President and Directors Devote Their Best Efforts to
Everything That Will Boost Douglas and the South
west; Many New Members Are Coming Into the
Organization AS Its Merits Appear

The words under the auspices or
through the efforts of the Douglas
Chamber Of Commerce ,and Mines"
have come into common use in de-
scribing any one of dozens of success
full undertakings of many sorts in the
southwest. The efforts OF this cham
Der OF commerce are dedicated to the
proposition that the Douglas district
has millions in undeveloped resources
and that it is the business of the
chamber of commerce to do every-
thing in its power to develop these
millions.
With a small membership lacking
in enthusiasm, with unpaid debts and
inadequate income, this organization
has struggled and fought. With all
Of the cOmmunitys knockers arrayed
against them and with some of the
best interests in the city only giving
their support in a half-hearted man
ner, the institution has never WaV-
cred and has steadily forged ahead
until today it can look forward from
the first great step toward success in
a general plan where in the past its
successes have only been in few
things.
Identified with this chamber of
commerce in the more recent years
there have grown up two or three
noteworthy organizations. These are
the offspring of the chamber of COM
merce or organizations that hold to
the same principle of progress and
development.
They. are the Kiwanis club, the
Borderland Climate club and the
Cochise County Fair association. The
interests Of all three are almost iden-
tical, although each expresses them
in certain specified lines of endeavor.
The movement to, build in Douglas
a fine first. class tourist hotel was
originated and fathered entirely by
the chamber of commerce, and now
that there seems nothing in the way
of the success of this project there is
coming over the community better
and higher appreciation of what has
been and is being done for the city.
A number of the most prominent
business men of the city have spent
their time in this work. The directors
Of the chamber of commerce serve
without pay. Their reward is only in
seeing things accomplished for the
building up of bigger, richer city.
They meet two or three times a
month They spend hours on COM
mittee work, they make trips to other
cities and out into the valley studying
different things that are to be ap-
piled here.
The project to build power line
into the, Sulphur Spring valley is be-
ing sponsored by this organization.
So far they have not succeeded in this
effort, but final failure is foreign to
the makeup of the organization.
They expect, finally, to build that
power line and see the valley de-
veloped with taxable wealth of many
millions of dollars.
Good roads. good hotels, good SER
vice of all kinds to tourists and trav-
elers all are arranged for by this
chamber The Borderland Climate
club is a child of the chamber of
commerce and of other civic organi-N
zations.
Every live wire business and profess
sional man in the city is member
Of either the chamber of commerce or
the Borderland Climate club, and
many are members of both. The Of
fices of both organizations are in the
same rooms. One secretary handles
the detail work for both.
This arrangement has proved q
great saving, for stenographers are
hired jointly by the two organiza-
ions and can thus be occupied all
the time.
The Chamber of Commerce and
Mines has policy of supporting
'verYthing that is good for the COM
nunity. The word community is used
% mean the entire district or any
hing tributary to this district. They
upport everything in proportion to
rs needs, their ability and the amount
If rood that may come of it,
The organization has come to be a
credit to the city, 1t is annually
growing in STRENGTH and in the num-
ber of its supporters and active work
erS. Great credit is due the presi-
dents and boards of directors for
their untiring loyalty and service in
activities that cannot benefit them
any more than they do the rest of
the community,
The watchword of the organization
is progress. They intend to grow, to
make the community grow and be-
come more wealthy and they intend
to continue in the future as they
have in the past their policy of sup
porting every good thing in as great
measure as they are able.