Show ais the work bouasy he committees last wednesday evening S M and L B adams of the of conference went to salt lake city to confer with tho chamber of commerce at that place about the proposed scheme of jointly advertising salt lake ana provo for some reason or another nothing had been done at that chamber concerning this matter though it had been notified by the secretary of the ogden chamber therefore the whole matter had to be discussed from the beginning the provo chamber had acted in the matter and appointed a conference committee which was present on the occasion mr S M laid the plans which had originated in the chamber of this city before the assembly in a clear and concise statement A long discussion ensued on this question Y H dusenberry S S jones and ben bachman constituting the pro vo committee briefly stated if any plan could bo devised which would benefit the territory provo would do her share at the close of the in which J H W S mccormick J E dooly and others took part mr W H remington moved that a committee of three be appointed to confer with the committees from ogden and provo this was carried W a remington W H sells and francis cope being appointed as said committee after the adjournment of the chamber the three committees held a conference it having been decided during the discussion that the amount to be raised should be to bo divided pro rata the committee took this matter into consideration the population of the three cities were placed as follows salt lake ogden provo according to this proportion the sum to be raised by the capital is ogden 1100 provo the secretary was then instructed to ascertain at what figure pamphlets not to exceed twenty four pages six by nine inches could be procured and to report as soon as he could obtain tha lowest possible figure has some copies of their own selection which they will use outside of those to be printed jointly provo has also a largo number of special circulars the pamphlets will be distributed by a delegation of three one from each chamber who will spend a month in the east for that purpose if this proposition is to be made effective so as to bring an excursion out here in june the various chambers and their committees have a task on their hands not that it can not be completed but it must be vigorously and rapidly pushed in order to concentrate cen this movement and make it a success there is but one month and nine days in which all the work must be performed if the excursion is to reach here the ath of june as is anticipated tho work to be done can bo thus summed up it must first bo learned what this advertising scheme will cost ane money for defraying the expenses must then bo raised by subscription in the meanwhile the original matter to appear in the pages allotted to each city must be written and approved alie work of printing must then be begun A months distribution trib ution of the pamphlets will be allowed leaving nine days in which to accomplish all this work not taking into consideration the loss of time in conferring with each other two chambers being removed 40 miles from the central place of conference it rather doubtful that this can bo done but it may bo that there is suf energy and push in the various chambers to accomplish it one thing in its favor is that the committee on distributing can utilize the first while the other are being printed and that advertising the excursion can be begun as soon as the plan is definitely decided and accepted it is to be hoped that this gigantic scheme may prove a success and of lasting benefit to the territory ogden standard |