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Show HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE. The article referred to in the following communication was inserted in our columns in accordance with an advertising contract with the branch house of he Studebaker Wagon Company, Salt Lake City, and was not written by us. We greatly regret that it should have created a wrong impression and the circumstance of it having done so was entirely inadvertent on the part of the writer. It would in no way benefit any person to detract from the great credit which is due to the founders of the Cache Valley Board of Trade. The communication states the facts that are necessary to show to whom credit is due: Editor Leader - In your issue of Sept. (September) 17th, there appeared an article headed "Cache County Enterprise," which conveyed the impression that Zion's Board of Trade, as organized on June 20th, 1880, was the first institution of the kind ever established in Cache County. This impression is quite erroneous, and does great injustice to a number of leading men of our county, who have for years past, labored most zealously to accomplish the same benefits to the people that Zion's Board of Trade is designed to accomplish. The facts are that Zion's Board of Trade, as now organized, is an outgrowth of the Cache Valley Board of Trade, organized March 25th, 1876, with the following officers: President, Brigham Young Jr. (Junior); first vice president, Wm. (William) B. Preston; second vice president, Henry Hughes; general superintendent, Moses Thatcher, together with a board of directors. A business of from sixty to seventy-five thousand dollars annually has been done by this Board since its organization, by way of handling the butter, eggs, &c (etc.) produced in the county. All middle men were excluded in the handling of these products, and thus the people received the highest price for them that middle men might have obtained, less the bare cost of handling. That this Board of Trade might more fully accomplish the objects for which it was organized, it was thought best to incorporate it under the laws of the Territory. This was done June 29th, 1880. In being incorporated the Cache Valley Board of Trade simply changed its name to Zion's Board of Trade, and this was the only material change made. Very respectfully, A Subscriber, Logan Sept. (September) 22, 1880. |