Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-17
IMPORTANT MATTERS
Under Discussion in the
Chamber of Commerce.
BOARD or DIRECTORS MEETING
New Members of Board OF Agri'
culture-Work ON the HarbOr.
The Citrus Fair.

A very important meeting of the Board
of Directors of the Chamber OF Com
merce was held yesterday afternoon at
the rooms on First street. Vice-Presl-
dent Hervey Lindley occupied the chair,
and there was large attendance, nearly
all of the members of the board being
present.
After the reading of the minutes there
was some discussion over the new rule
which forbade smoking in the rooms
while the board was in session. One Of
the members, who was addicted to the
weed, objected to the rule, but no action
was taken. The first subject taken under
consideration was the nomination of
members of the State Board of Agri.
culture for the southern part of the State
to take the places of the three who were
soon to resign. Two of those who were
to 20 out of Office were from the north
and one was from the south. The
opinion was expressed that if the case
was properly laid before the Governor he
might be induced to appoint two of the
three from the south, in order that this
section might be more satisfactorily
represented. On motion, the Chair was
instructed to select committee of five of
which he himself should be one, who
should confer with the Governor on the
matter and send him suitable nomina-
tions for the positions. The committee
thus chosen consisted of Hervey Lindley,
G. M. Wells, j. H. Book, E. w. Jones
and A. w. Barrett.
Major Jones then offered the following
resolutions relative to the compilation of
statistics by the State Board of Agri-
culture, which were adopted:
WHEREAS, By the act to provide for
the management and control of the
State Agricultural Society by the State,
approved April Is, 1880, the Directors or
: Board of Managers of each County and
District Agricultural Society or Associa-
ton, and of each County, District or State
Horticultural and Stock Breeding Asso-
citation or Society, organized and acting
under the laws OF the State, are required
to report annually, on or before the first
day of December, to the State Board of
Agriculture, the transactions of said
society, and any and all facts and
statistics showing the development and
extent of the industries, products and
resources of the county or district
embraced within the management OF
such society or association, exce,t that
any board or body devoted to vinicul-
tural industries shall not be required to.
but may, at it's option, make such reports
and by 80 doing become entitled
to equal privileges with institutions
devoted to agriculture and
WHEREAS, II has not thus far been the
custom of such institutions to make re-
ports, except with regard to fairs, or
such as are OF very general character,
and not of great use or value to the mass
of people engaged Ia the very pursuits
they are intended most to benefit; and
WHEREAS, Reports in detail from
counties and districts showing the
amount in total, and the amount and
market value per acre, of the grain, fruit
vegetables, hay or other crops raised
therein; the kind of soil, whether moist
or dry, irrigated or not, fertilized or not
how cultivated and planted; if CT trees,
how many to the acre; where crop is
marketed; the kind, number and value
of the live stock raised; the value and
quantity of the wool, wine, brandy,
houey and all products directly allied to
the soil; and indeed, as stated above,
any and all facts and statistics showing
the development and extent of the in-
dustries, products and resources of the
county or district, would be of great value
to the people engaged in those irdus-
tries, and all interested in the resources
and growth of the State; therefore be it
Resolved, That She State Board of Agri-
culture be asked to require of each
county or district board, and our own
district and county societies be requested
to provide as complete and accurate re
ports upon the subject suggested as pos
sible, for publication in the next volume
issued by the State Agricultural Society,
and for all future reports of said society
that the Secretary of the Chamber is
hereby instructed to send Immediately
to the Governor of the State and to the
Secretaries of the State Board of Agri-
culture, the Sixth District Agricultural
Society and the County Agricultural So
ciety, copy of these resolutions.
Mr.. 81. @. Wilmer, in behalf of the
committee which was appointed at q
recent meeting of the Cham ber to select
some one to address the State Board OF
Horticulture on the occasion of their
meeting in this city next March, re-.
ported that suitable selection had been
made bat that the committee had not
yet had time to confer with the Indi.
vidual on the matter and hence were not
quite ready to report.
DR.. J. P. Widney made a report in
behalf of the Committee on Commerce,
on the state of the work on the San
Pedro harbor. He requested that his
remarks should not be- made public
They contained no facts which have not
already been published.
Mr.. Wilmer expressed himself az in
favor of taking some kind of definite
action in the matter of the harbor and
other appropriations and offered the
following resolutions:
WHEREAS, The Los Angeles Chamber
of Commerce has at all times urged and
encouraged the idea of large expenditure
of public moneys from the National
Treasury for betterment of our harbor at
San Pedro and for public buildings al
Los Angeles, as we'll as for the
Soldiers Home at Santa Monica; and
WHEREAS, A large appropriation al
San Pedro seems to this Chamber to be 9
question of vital importance to all the
commercial interests of Southern Cali
fornia; and
WHEREAS, There is being an effori
made by our Representative in Congress
to have an. additional appropriation fol-
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