Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-03
A GOOD ADVERTISEMENT.
The Work Accomplished by Cali.
fOrnla ON Wheels.

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fOrnla ON Wheels.
A dispatch appearing in yesterday
mornings HERALD, gives the views of q
prominent railroad official upon the ex-
cellent work done in the advertising of
this State by the California on Wheels"
exhibition which is now travelling about
in the East. Reports constantly come
in through private correspondence and
otherwise indicating that good results
will follow from the expedition. A
member of the Chamber of Commerce
received letter few days ago from
B. D. Pritchard, a gentleman from Hill
nois, who recently visited this coast and
purchased tract of 2 900 acres of land,
written from New York, in which he
tells of visit he paid to the exhibit, at
that time in the metropolis. He says
that he had long talk with Mr.. E. M.
D. Johnson, the manager of the exhibit,
and saw and talked with many
OF the people who were visiting and
had visited the show. He expresses
the opinion than an incredible amount of
good has been done N the way of ad-
vertising the State, and this section in
particular, by the travelling exhibit.
The recent route of the car has been
through Northern New York and Con-
necticut and Massachusetts. Along this
line there was the greatest enthusiasm
displayed, and, II only small per cent. of
those who declared their intention Of
moving to California do so, the number
OF emigrants during the next winter will
return to the large figure, of two years
ago. Mr.. Pritchard says that he was
asked by several Of those whom be met
at the car on the occasion of his first
visit what man could get in the way of
farming land in California for from 50 600
to SIS 900. Mr.. Johnson said that the
definite and searching questions asked
by large number of the
visitors shows that they are not
merely curious about the country
but that they are actually making plans
to come to the coast. In some places the
cars were besieged incessantly during
their stay with eager questioners, who
were not contented until they had full
and accurate understanding of the condi-
tions of agriculture and fruit raising in
California.
AS to the idea that the northern part
of the State has been getting ahead of
Los Angeles in the matter of advertising
its merits in the East, Mr.. Pritchard says
that there appears to be no indication of
this. The word which was on every
body's lips, and which seemed to them
to mean the whole of Southern or Semi
tropic California, was, Los Angeles" Mr..
Pritchard says he saw a party of people
going Through the Car pointing out Fresno
dried fruits and Santa Clara products
of all sorts, and attributing them all to
Los Angeles. The exhibit from this
county, it appears, is striking in it's
character and very fortunately located in
the car. Mr.. johnson testifies that
three-fourths OF all the visitors to the
cars ask only of Los Angeles.
The dispatch in yesterdays HERALD
quotes Mr.. Johnson as saying that
among the visitors to the cars at every
point have been wholesale and retail
fruit dealers, who look over with much
interest the specimens of dried fruit
which the expedition carries. Apropos
of this, it might be stated that the Sec
retary OF the Chamber of Commerce has
found it quite impossible to secure any
high grade preserved fruit put up in this
section to send on to the exhibit, as the
market has been completely drained hv
the demand during the last winter.