Los Angeles herald., 1890-03-24
'"There Are Millions in IT, is What HI
Says of an Exhibit in Chicago or
Elsewhere.

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opportunity of the section above named
What an exhibit these three counties
can make, to be sure all the semi
tropical and deciduous fruits known
almost all kinds OF nuts; everything that
grows in the shape of vegetables and
flowers gold, silver, copper, tin and
coal olive oil and coal oil, granite, slate,
marble and other stone, grasses and
plants of all kinds; many varieties of
woods; pyramids of canned, preserved
and crystalliZed fruits; hams and bacon
second only to those made in Chicago
and St. Louis; flour and meal and all
kinds OF grains; wines and brandies that
will create a great sensation properly
handled and dilated upon, and graphic,
but correct descriptions of our soils
and climate and healthfulness. and
pamphlets and maps and pictures of our
principal summer and winter resorts
why, ''there's millions in it," and the
poorest man in the three counties could
do something, if it were only TO give a
hat-full of walnuts or dollar for the
two years. But,
While l agree with Mr.. Freeman that
there should be permanent exhibits in
Chicago, Boston, London and elsewhere
our golden opportunity should be Chi
cago because,
First-We get magnificent hall in
the heart of that wonderful Hub OF the
West, and transportation from every
Santa Fe station in San Diego, San Ber-
nardino and Los Angeles counties for
nothing. Beside, this will be a stepping
stone to space i'll the great exposition of
1892 or '93, and it is the people within a
big radius of Chicago, first, that are
coming to Southern California, and,
second, from the New England States,
with Boston as an advertising center.
Second-The exhibit should be con-
fined 10 these three semi-tropical
counties, as their climate and degrees of
healthfulness are about the same, and
also their varieties of soil and products,
and because the railroad which paws for
the hall and gives free transportation
without charge, from door to door, so to
speak, has no branches in other counties.
1t would be unfair to each road TO
request the Southern Pacific Company to
be paintaker in this special enterprise,
as it puts up most OF the money to run
the Board of Trade and California on
Wheels" and is really much more in
leTeSttC Ill lIlt tllU
central counties than our own; although
from my own knowledge, / can declare
that it has never been actually un-
friendly to Southern California, as many
people think.
Third-The Southern Pacific Company
should not be asked to participate, be-
cause it has permanent exhibits in Lon
don, Boston, Chicago and elsewhere, and
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principally, and naturally, and fairly, |
may say, those sections where it has its
fine hotels and its largest tracts of lands
and generally its largest holdings. Be-
sides, it would be decidedly unjust to
put up $4,000 i'll cash per annum for two
years, and transport hundreds OF tons OF
exhibits during that time.
Fourth-After having been east six
teen times for the Southern Pacific Com
pany, and having had charge of their
exhibits in London, Paris and New Or
leans (the latter in an executive way,
and having spent a great deal OF time
during the past eight years in the
East for that company, III writing
books and pamphlets and in other
ways, making myself useful for
the road generally and the Del Monte
hotel in particular, it is my impression
that Boston would be the best place as a
point of exhibit, and Chicago next, gen
orally. But, as we can get a hall in and
transportation to Chicago free, and as an
exhibition now would be the pretty lit
tie caterpillar to the gaudy butterfly of
1892 or 1913, Chicago is surely the first
place; and as | said before, there's
millions in it,
Fifth doubt, even if we could get a
hall free and transportation likewise,
whether New York or Philadelphia
would give the eighth of a return. The
latter is a manufacturing place, and
there are good farms and factories and
cheap rents and good Eastern climate
and cheap commodities "all around. "
The same and more may be said of all of
that, unless good deal of money could
in Boston and Chicago would not be of
ton near Kensington, London, some
day, would be big thing. | think
the next Legislature will appropriate
substantial amount for this purpose.
So far as Boston as a good point
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statistics which say that there are
1856 abandoned farms in one county in
New Hampshire. There are hardly any
breadstuffs or provisions raised in four
out of the six New England States, and
Boston is the starting point of the go
West Young Man" with his parents and
the entire outfit, and of hundreds OF
eastern Canadians annually. Chicago is
the rendezvous before departure Of
thousands of frozen-out families of the
uncongenial Northwest, and also OF
many who have got rich in lumber and
hogs and corn and right-up-and-down
hard work, who have set their eyes to-
ward this Incompatible section as the
place to spend the evening OF their lives
Lastly, all freshly-picked fruits can be
shown in Chicago better than in cities
further east, although the Kimballs Of
San Diego county made an excellent dis.
play of semi-tropical fruits in the old
South Church in Boston about fou,
years ago. By the Santa Fe, we could
get all of these fruits in Chicago in from
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