User:MsCoachBob/Dallas Regional Chamber Draft

History
The Dallas Regional Chamber was formed in 1909, the combination of three smaller organizations with some overlapping functions: the Dallas Commercial Club, (founded in 1893 ), ; the 150,000 Club, founded in 1905 by a group of Dallas businessmen hoping to spur growth in the city to reach 150,000 residents by 1910 and the Freight Bureau—and the Dallas Board of Trade, established in 1874.

http://books.google.com/books?id=cMovAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA55&dq=%22Freight+Bureau%22+%22Dallas+Commercial+Club%22&hl=en&ei=JKqbTJ2HIYzwnge3gqitDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Freight%20Bureau%22%20%22Dallas%20Commercial%20Club%22&f=false

Greater Dallas Chamber: http://news.dallaschamber.org/e_article001136012.cfm?x=b11,0,w

Early chamber: http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/KK/fke44.html