Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-15
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Inaugural Address of Its
President.
SEVERAL COMMITTEES REPORT.
How it is Proposed to Induce
immigration to Southern
California.

The regular semi-monthly meeting o
the Chamber of Commerce took place
yesterday afternoon in the Board o.
Trade rooms. This me Q ing should have
occurred last Wednesday but was post
poned one week because of the excite.
ment over the election which was pre-
vailing at that time.
Before the formal meeting began DR.
Widney, at the reeuest Of the President
took the floor to add one or two omitted
facts to his report on the San Pedro Har
Dor and sea wall, which was rendered al
the special meeting Tuesday evening
He stated that it must not be supposed
that the harbor would be valueless unit
the work was entirely completed. The
first half million of dollars would com
plete the most important part of the
wall and also the cheapest part, and
when this was finished the swell which
disturbs the anchorage during the sum.
mer months would be shut off and the
harbor relieved of the necessity of light
erage except through few months of the
winter.
After the calling of the roll aud read.
ing OF the minutes the President, Major
E. W. Jones, gave his inaugural address,
as follows:
Alittle more than within month from
the beginning of this movement the Cham.
Der of Commerce has been organized.
Though in the midst of most exciting
Presidential campaign, great interest has
been taken in the movement. We have
nearly 100 members, with many new ap-
plications for membership, and all from
the foremost men of enterprise and bust.
ness sagacity in the city. We hope to
have many also from the territory outside
the city. Our Executive Committee,
which controls the finances and directs
and organizes the work of the Chamber
is one which can be trusted to do the
work wisely and well. We have to-day
to elect two members of each standing
committee. Names selected by the Ex-
ecutive Committee will be presented to
you to act upon. The standing commit
tees filed, we are ready for work, and
none too soop. Already some Of the
committees, in anticipation Of your
action, are at work and will make reports
to-day. The busy season is already upon
Us. The harvest is ripe for the reapers.
To the tens of thousands Of people who
desire to come here for health, pleasure
or thrift, we want to convey information
of the comforts and advantages that they
are certain to find here.
1t is the general impression in the East
that We have little or no better accom-
modations for visitors than we had a
year ago. 1t behooves us to inform
them that we have several thousand
rooms, a thousand houses and hundreds
OF tables added to our last years num-
Der, and that rents and board are cheaper
and far better than then. It is the i'm
preston abroad that we have no good
lands in the adjacent region at a reason
able price. Our Committee on Lands,
ETC., can show that we have lands for
many thousand families, at low prices,
and so adapted to the establishment of
happy and profitable homes by thrifty
farmers, that, compared with any East
ern lands, they are worth twice the price
asked for them. 1t is the duty, also,
of the Committee on Lands, etc, to
stimulate the improvement of neglected
fields, orchards and vineyards during
the approaching wet season, and the
cultivation of as much acreage all over
the region as it is possible to set out in
Our mines of coal, bitumen, iron,
graphite, silver, gold and other metals
and minerals will some day be very
important factor OF our prosperity, and
our committee on that subject has a
great field before it. 1t should induce
Intelligent persons from all quarters of
the country to send its specimens of
earth, clay, rocks, soils, waters, miner ais,
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the Committee on Manufactures and
Dor interests are of great importance,
of them is one of bast magnitude. There
are several railroads seeking admission
at the gates of the city and county. A
liberal spirit should be shown toward
such enterprises, but the most valuable
only be given to the most advantageous
the deepest-draft vessels We must have,
and capital and Government aid must
be obtained in their behalf.
The question of fuel and of motive
power is one of great moment, and in
jected railways, courses have been
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We expect the committee on these SUBJ
jects to rouse the capital and energy that
will take hold of them with profit to
themselves and inestimable advantage
to us. Money for legitimate enterprises
and genuine development is needed, and
if not hindered by local influences, the
committee in charge may add largely to
our immediate prosperity by leading
capital from abroad to invest among us.
Wise, just and favorable legislation both
here and at Washington, needs to be
procured; laws that affect US ad.
versely to he changed; desirable
laws to be enacted, and appropriations tc
be obtained. We have this subject in the
hands of committee of the first order
The work of encouraging desirable i'm.
migration, and that of compiling the
statistics of the chamber, are. in good
hands. The latter will require close
careful and arduous labor. The Com.
mittee on Manufactures has an unlimited
field before it, and very promising one
but its task will not be light, though Ii
will necessarily have much to do with
fuel. The Committee on Hotels and also
that on Parks and Boulevards have
plenty Of work before them, and especi
ally should that of the former be entered
upon at once. We have many charming
family hotels here to be filled with guests
and one magnificent tourists hotel to be
completed. If the rest of the work o