Show audi more talk than business the gintic tintic boad shelters smelters Sm elters are necessary utah go should he united the chamber of commerce met jagt knitht at the council chamber at the court room was not used as the door was louled aud the lev not to be had The committee on rules reported as follows to the president and members of the chamber of commerce Comme ice of the city of provo GENTLEMEN your committe on rules and order of bus mebs beg leave to report as follows we recommend that Roberts rules of order be adopted lor the government of the proceeding both of the meetings of the directors and ot the chamber we also recommend the establishment of th lolloping lol loping oder of business ajl heading and approval of the minutes ot the previous meeting with or without amendments 2 communications originating outside ot the chamber 3 reports of the president aud diorec toa to a 4 reports of the committees in their order aa numbered 6 reports of special committees 6 unfinished business 7 new business ully E A WILSON D P hotuiz committee E A WEDGWOOD provo cm feb 20 lyal on motion of mr graham ilie report was accepted and the rulea adopted A communication was received from the salt lake chamber of commerce giving information co icer ning shelters smelters sm elters proposed location etc no delin ate action in the matter had 3 et been taken by ahe salt lake chamber mi E ldredge made a verbal report of alie committee on lair at the jast fair utah counte had been well represented from this county came 45 ot horses between fifty and foisiy thousand dollars worth of tattle a great deal of grain etc if wb can ge the fair talked UD here in the county I 1 have no doubt wo can nave a fair equal to the territorial fair we would like further lima to confer nith tho city councils in regard to the matter but there is one thing the papers of this city can aay acor certain we will have a fair this fall chairman jones ot the committee on public improvements submitted the lowina lol to ahr lion chamber of commerce of froio city GENTLEMEN your committee on public improvements respectfully respect lully submit the following report and resolutions tor your consideration anat whereas provo city is in great need of a city hall and jail and da the public buildings of utah county in provo city are entirely inadequate to accommodate the of the county at present and it is impractical to make additions to said buildings without a large expenditure of public moneys in arranging rearranging re and remodeling said and thereby getting very little office room for the money expended and said county buildings are ample to accommodate all of the officers of provo ity for years to come and we are informed that utah county will consider a proposition pio position to sell all of said property to provo city and WHEREAS provo city baa sufficient sal estate net unimproved in the renter of said city that could be sold lor a aum in excess ot the amount that would be required to purchase said county buildings and around and atie bale of said city property would be a creat benefit to the business interests of the city uy enable ing the citizens to form a business center instead of baying the business strung ui for a mile or more on one bide of on street only and ilie said city is unable to make the nece aary public identa such as a city hall water works and sewerage without aching daid property or bonding the cita aud tho tax payers of said city are opposed to bouling the chiy ami caid property is of no particular benefit to said city and WHEREAS we believe it would be to the aest interests to the tax payers ot both county and city to make ahe above sates therefore be it Reto hed that it is the beaire ot alie bembera of this chamber and ano art finx bavers pavers of the t iby and county thai provo city by hei city council sell lots two 2 three 3 four 4 and five 5 in block twenty one 21 plat li for business purposes and purchase it possible at a reasonable reabon able anure from utah county lots ine 1 aix U beven 7 and 8 in block lenty one plat B with ail thereon and that ii committee 03 lu wait upon the lion city council to a copy of these resolutions and to urge their early and of the same mr jonea explained that thy lion infant ahe sale of the wt halt of ahe court aloi k butali county was anut cd af moie room the di nit court might be aked to moie but provo city could not that ach of ollices in thy lower part of ahn court was occupied by from aliree lo 10 four county and city Jin cuta aen though the city entirely the ii would ie sou benait for thu county the jail alao too andall but t ie couri alouse would be luru enough for acty ddll aad the jail would be hiie enough for 1 city jail the artty v the 01 n and ly where to it ejiu noy to c maiet ranj whet iier ii juull be t elt alie west hull cf the cuart iio aoe aguare mr eliat lio WAS in alie main in 11 vur of lie ami lucion lui ion tho occupied by both alie county aud the feiy way luo small aud he favor tle dettis af a new building nud ui ihor county aal city lit waa not huweler at present prepared t po to alie extent ot asking for the sa u the west half of alie court square mr probert had thought alie matter and he was in favor of belling clife two north wesl lots and building a cili ball ou the southwest south west corner mr eldredge Eld did nut understand that these reports were introduced for immediate action they were introduced with a view of agitating the matter and obtaining the minds of ahe with view of the situation he would vote in favor of the resolutions mr jones that he did not desire that the resolutions should be passed until they had been thorp considered and amended if necessary EO that the chamber as a body could t Sf yr give them their united support mr gash moved that the further consideration of the resolutions be post houed for two weeks mr barney favored the postponing of the resolutions for only one week abea they could be discussed and acain further postponed for two weeks and moved to amend to that effect mr elmer B jonea did not favor the purchasing of the court house as a city hall as the city would then no doubt feel too poor to build a new city hail such as the growth of the city might re quller he favored mr plan Th emotion of mr gash as amended by mr barney was adopted the secretary red the report of the co imidee im itee on the chamber ot commar e ball chewing receipts expenses to aj net mr elmer B jonea stated that he had beta down at tintie and the taik here was that the railroad would be built to springville Spring ville and if provo got anything it would be a stub that ahey would build themselves mr soon stated that the committee on railroads had been at aud had while there learned that the people of payson were anxious to secure a railroad but they had already granted one right of way and did net feet like granting another as long as the first heild glod from I 1 committee had gone to spanish fork mr barney been to salt lake and the understanding thare waa that the road was not coming to provo now we want the road to come hei e and we want to use every effort to get it to coma here it is said that the ilio grinde western is dictating where this road is to go to if this is so we want to yet after the kio grand western officials and ascertain what they aie going to do it wont do to wait until it la too late mr elmer B jonea heartily seconded the remarks of mr barney we want the road by all means and we go to sleep on our rights we have heard enough to put us on aur guard mr noon thought that the speaker had truck the bell just right kulesa we worked witti concerted action the road would not come here mr havercamp Hayer camp we will build it for ahm FREIGHT mr barney moved that a committee of five ba appointed to fisit the business men of the city for the purpose of effect aug an organization of the freight interests of provo 1 I he gentleman thought alie freight interests of the city were sufficient to ie cur esome recognition from the railroad companies mr E A wilson favored the increasing of the size of the railroad committee rattier than appointing a new corn cittee mr oscar B young read over the names of the committee on railroad and baid gentlemen the committee on railroads has virtually been without a head since it was been appointed the chairman has not called meeting STRIKES TIE SEY kots mr probert suggested that what we wanted to do was to educate this county to work for this county that was the key this little bit of freight we have ia a secondary consideration what we want is shelters smelters sm elters in this county W dont want our ore to go to colorado we want it to bo smelter smelted right here we dont care whether the shelters smelters sm elters are in provo or not we want them in utah county SECONDED BY WEDGEWOOD mr wedge wood felt that mr pro had struck the key provos freight amounted to nothing compared with the immense amount of ore shipped from gintic tintic tha corid waa to be built for the phi of ore from gintic tintic and the is would build their road to tho point where their ore could be disposed of HANDLE mr young the handle of eliat key is a railroad from park city to provo after some further talk mr clove arose to a point of order the gentlemen were not speaking to the question mr barneis barneys Bar motion was put before the bouse and carried after some incidental discussion and calling to order mr eldredge moved that the rules be suspended and that the meeting proceed to discuss railroad question considerable discussion ensued mr suggested that all the business was being piled on one committee and that it would be advisable to give the committee on mining and other committees something to do after fter a number of motions none of which were carried and considerable display of parliamentary knowledge by the members of the chamber mr barney came down to business by stating that he would make one of a number of 50 or who would furnish 25 each to send two or three men east tu secure capital for building railroads and shelters smelters sm elters and advertise provos re sources A member the first business proposition to night mr Eldre dire favored the ilea and said that he had another 25 ready so have I 1 came from several but no action was taken in the matter mr barney moved that a subscription be taken tonight to night no second mr ID jones stated that it was necessary before wo sent men aaa on business to get statistics from both park city and gintic tintic A man should spend a week at each of theae places if we are boing soing to work we must secure these before we can talk business to men who have capital to invest mr gash moved that the on statia tica and printing be instructed to gather statistics of ores that an be secured for smelling smelting sm elting in prove and eliat the committee hand in their bill of expanse which be paid oy the chamber carried mr wedgewood stated that the com cittee on statistics and printing had seen the necessity of securing the statistics referred to by mr jones and had already secured matter the salt lake chamber and elsewhere he would ak for the coop co op pra tion of the members of tha chamber in securing any information an adjournment was taken for one week |