Show CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN PROVO y steps taken to or canice one X call was made by wilson hausen berry esq chairman of the citizens committee last thursday for a meeting of r imi tentative enta tive citizens citizen sto to convene at th ehte court c urt house on sat saturday arday leve dink accordingly A large portion of referred to assembled awon H DuseR berty acted as chair b ai aa and geo sutherland as secretary the chair announced the purpose of the meeting in a brief but enthusiastic thusia speech mr D evans moved that we proceed to organize a chamber of commeree commerce mr S B R thurman seconded the motion speeches were then made by several gentlemen in favor of tile the move mr thurman in giving his reasons tot or approving the move said we have a valley here th the eden of yah utah and a city which wb abbe sh showing ow ng teo to great effort of enterprise se is the aride and admiration of all who come in our midst all it lacks is enterprise and capital these cannot be developed within and of ourselves but we must make our advantages known to the world and by organizing a chamber of commerce this may in sy be b accomplished I 1 I 1 JAMES JAMBS DUNN esq then responded to a call from the audience saying in substance that a chamber of commerce is what every community needs with such facilities as we have the simplest and most direct way is to bave an organization by which the resources of the country maybe invoiced and shown to the public he was in sympathy with the organization and would give it his sup port reed smoot esq wasp was next ext called for he said some som eliad had scoffed at the idea of a chamber of commerce in provo prevo look at denver in 1867 a city of three thousand inhabitants when it originated something of the kind a copard of trade and ana denver commenced to grow from then until now it is ia one of the greatest commercial centers of the west we must have some kind of an organization to s 9 siow ow up to an inquiring public the resources of this country A A noon esq was called for fok and made a short speech in favor of the present move S b jones esq not being able to be present sent written evidence of his bis approval of the scheme the motion was put to the souse house and carried unanimously mr george sutherland moved that we proceed to a temporary organization and the election of officers the motion prevailed tae ane following are the officers elected wilson H dusenberry president james dunn first vice president A A noon second vice president geo sutherland secretary ed L ljones jones treasurer S S jones reed smoot W C CA A smoot A D holdaway F H simmons richard kichard breaston Br erston wm win E R H Pax maii directors the following were made a committee on constitution S R thurman david evans amos D holdaway daway A 0 smoot jr W N dusenbery the meeting adjourned until friday next provo sept 11 alth 1887 D |