Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-20
PLANS FOR PROGRESS.
What the State Board Of
Trade is Doing.
THE Los ANGELES EAHlBlT'
How the Senate Committee on Arid
Lands Are to See the State
Next Month,

luBb 10Jurn6u 1rOm oHn fIAuClbCO. tll5
visit to the Bay City was to see what the
Los Angeles exhibit there looks like, and
to confer with the State Board of Trade
in reference to the Senate Committee on
Arid Lands soon to visit this State. The
State Board of Trade consists of Hon. M.
M. Estee (Chairman), Captain w. l..
Merry, of San Francisco; W. H.
Mills, of Sacramento; General N. P.
Chapman, OF Red Bluff; S. G. Wright,
of Stanislaus; Jesse d. Carr, of Mon
terey; Major f. w. Jones, of Los An.
geles; L. M. Holt, of San Bernardino,
and F. H. Cunningham, of San Diego.
Knowing that this body had been in
session in San Francisco, and that Major
Jones had visited the State exhibit in
that city maintained under the Board of
Trade, a HERALD reporter sought him
out yesterday at his Office in the old st.
Vincent College to seek some news about
the matters discussed. In speaking of
the exhibit, the Major said:
1t is much better than one would think
it is who should form his opinion from
an article in the HERALD based on letter
from some one in San Francisco. Yet l
must say it is not by any means what it
ought to be. 1t is better than that of
many of the counties, and it is worse
than that of some of them. think, of
course, as you do, that it ought to be the
best. 1t is in space about twelve feet
long, with the bottom shelf about
couple of feet wide, and shelves running
up in pyramid shape from this to
height of about ten feet There is under
the bottom shelf fine display of petro-
leum from this county, and Of refined
brea. That is about the best part of the
display. 1t is ample, and shows all the
grades of the oil and of the brea pro-
duced here. The bottom shelf is devoted
to display OF wines. There are about
two dozen bottles of various kinds.
Along with the bottles are arranged
good display of lemons in an
excellent condition. Then there are
good many jars of all sorts
of cereals from here, some cured fruit in
fancy boxes, a little display of raisins. |
cannot recall all there is.
No, there is no display OF minerals;
none of building stone none of canned
fruits, from here. have prepared list
of what we want to secure, and what We
must get to put the county right in the
eyes of strangers. But to do this we
want more money. All we have is $3.50
left. Yes, think you are right; we
ought to have 81 900 to buy cases and
jars, and get such things as we need.
But want to give you the list We want
of dried fruits and nuts. There are
our exhibit. Now, there is General Bid
xpaIl,a paroono1 6ienlov oil
comes from his ranch in Chico,
and was grown within radius
of mile. 1t dazzles from the fine quail
ity of the fruit and the variety of the dis
play. 1t embraces nearly all sorts of
dried fruits and nuts. 1t is in large
case with glass doors. All the fruits are
in small ia cy boxes, set on edge so as
to be we'll seen. 1t is the most conspic-
uous feature in the room. We have a
good many oranges; but we want to get
some fine specimens of the orange and
put them in jars where they will keep
and retain their lustre. We ought to
have good many samples Of the things
we manufacture here. The sewer pipe
company ought to send plentiful samples
of their wares, including nice sam ples of
terra Gotta. The South Riverside Works
ought to do the same. All our manufac-
turing establishments should send some-
thing. We need samples Of honey too, put
up in an attractive form. The same is
true of olives and of olive oil. Then we
want to get some perfect punches OF
grapes, white, flame colored, purple,
black, etc. put them up in nice jars, 80
they will last, and let Eastern people see
the perfection of our vineyard products.
Another desirable thing to have is our
building stone. We have a great abun-
dance of it; and of 80 many varieties,
sandstone, granite, marble and many
others. They are all of fine grain, and
take a high polish. They ought to be
scientifically labeled. Then there are
our minerals. There ought to be COM
plete exhibit of the many minerals dug
from the earth in this county. A
nice cabinet of these ought to
be put in place, SO as to show
to great perfection what we can do.
Besides these staple products, there are
a plentitude of things which tend to
impress the mind with the various cap
abilities of the section. Tobacco is
grown here, 30 are bananas, castor beans,
bamboo, dates, pine cones, palm leaves,
woods of fine grain and taking high
polish grass seeds, guava berries, and
hundreds of other things. We would
like to procure specimens of all produced
here. We have corn shelled and put in
Jars. We want corn in the ear, and corn
on the stalk. We want samples of pro.
ducts grown with artificial irrigation, and
the same grown without such aid. There
are fine fields OF corn in the county on
which no water has been used. We want
stalks and ears from these. There
are the beans that grow here.
We have some of these, but
we want samples of all sorts that
grow here. Then we ought to have data
as to the yield for these crops, the mum.
Der of boxes of fruit to the acre, of tons
of grapes, of sacks of grain, and we also
want the profits OF farming, the state
ments to come from the farmers them
selves. A collection Of letters, printed cr
otherwise placed for inspection would be
a good thing to have. We will do all we
can to make the exhibit credit to tie
county, and make it helpful in the way
of attracting settlers; but the people must
Join with us and aid US. Let the farmers
send us fine specimens of their crops in
all sorts of forms; and let them send US
statements of the yield, and OF the
profits.
THE ARID LANDS COMMITTEE.
The real business in hand during my
visit to San Francisco was, OF course, in
reference to the reception and care OF the
Senate Com mittee on rid Lands which