Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-04
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
An Interesting Letter from California
on Wheels,

The donations to the chamber OF COM
merce yesterday included: Newhall
Bros, samples of manzanita wood DIR.
e. B. Briggs, Crescenta, lemons for Chi
cago exhibit; Miss May Robinson, fish
cut in onyx; w. o. Crawford, specimens
of marble from San Bernardino county;
Mrs. G. Cole, Colegrove, citron of COM
merce, oranges, lemons and lines for
Cahuenga table and Chicago exhibit.
The Farmers Alliance held their
monthly meeting in the chamber yes
terday.
The following letter was received yes
terday by the chamber of commerce:
OsKosH, Wis, Dec. %, 1890.
III. Jay Hanchette, ESQ.,, Secretary Los Angeles
Chamber OF Commerce.:
DEAR SIR: Your last shipment to
California on Wheels reached us at Fon
du Lac yesterday morning. Gould the
articles received have found tongue to
express themselves, l imagine there
would have been howl sent up against
YOU. The caulihower would have been
calling on you, protesting against being
obliged to flower in this blasted cline
the roasting ears would much prefer the
roasting sun of the Colorado desert to
having its ears frozen by this wintry
wind; the green peas certainly would
aot have been green enough to put out
of their shells into the frosty air, but
with icicles in their eyes would have be-
sought you, ''pease mayn't we go home
to Los Angeles again?' And who
could have blamed them? for
the mercury was lowering danger
ously near the zero mark, the
air was full of frost and snow and the
wind was biting cold. Thousands of
people stopped in front of them yester-
day and pinched them to see if they
were real, and then pinched themselves
TO be assured that they really saw cor
rectly, and then went out to contrast
this chilled and frozen climate with that
where such things grow at Christmas
time. Do you think the exhibition will
not be attended by good results for our
state? see that Mr.. w. H. Mills has
pronounced against "California on
Wheels" asserting that it had not ac-
romplished what had been expected of
it. Could Mr.. Mills stand in these cars
one-half hour any day and hear the
comments made and expressions ul-
tered, think he would thange his mind
very materially. Perhaps the results
are not perceptible, as yet, on the Pacific
coast, but good seed is being sown that
will surely yield an abundant harvest.
We must not expect to reap until the
seed has had ample time to germinate,
to grow and mature. The instances are
few where man can arrange his affairs
to make such move as going to Cali
forniv inside of year. Many will re-
quire series OF years, but all the while
there is leaven planted in his mind
which is expanding and growing with
each successive month aud will one day
land him on our shores. do not think
more successful scheme for advertising
any county was ever devised, than this.
1t may be true that some of the coun-
ties represented in the state board have
not received much benefit. Yolo county
rs cited as one of these. Would you like
to know how much interest Yolo county
has taken in this exhibit? She has, l
think two boxes of raisins and one OF
prunes. She has not sent us pound OF
seasonable fruits-not so much as a
bunch of grapes or an apple. 1.-The
Lord helps those who help themselves"
said one, and il is true. If Yolo or any
other county expects to receive any par
ticular benefit from this exhibition she
must do something to invite and COM
anand attention. We cannot make bricks
without straw or mud, and they have
furnished neither. Nor is Yolo the only
county in the same condition. Ahere are
about twenty-five others in which the