Los Angeles herald., 1892-04-23
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC AVERSE
TO GIVING STATISTICS.
Is Needed-Warner Miller to Be
Here Next Month.

The board of directors of the chamber
of commerce met yesterday afternoon.
There were present Directors Forman,
Breed, McGarvin, Braun, Klokke and
Edwards.
The committee on ways and means
rendered a report on the condition of the
finances, declaring them to be in good
shape.
A letter from the San Diego chamber
of commerce denying any knowledge OF
| the McLaren circular against San Pedro
harbor, recently distributed at Wash.
ington, and a resolution of thanks from
the same body rendered to the
chamber of commerce for their services
in the matter OF the Panama steamers
were read.
Mrs. Flint, president of the Flower
Festival society, sent letter stating
that the ladies would not be able to un-
dertake the holding of the flower festi-
val in the month of May read.
A communication from Warner Miller
was read stating that he would be here
| to speak on the subject of the Nicar-
| augua canal sometime between the 18th
and Goth.
Chairman A. w. Francisco OF the
committee on statistics made very
complete report, from which the follow
ing extracts are taken:
Your committee on statistics has re-
ceived from the secretary clipping
from the Examiner of San Francisco
containg the statement that the South
ern Pacific company has decided to
cease the publication of any information
with regard to the business of the road
in Southern California, for the reason
that it is unwilling to make known the
results of its work in fields where it has
to meet active competition.
In the opinion Of your committee it is
not necessary that this information be
given oftener than twice year, as for
example in June and January. 1t is not
at all necessary that this information
should be published in its separated
form, that is to say in tables showing
what has been done by the Southern
Pacific and what by the Santa Fe, but
rather in one general statement involv-
ing both the roads.
The facts which it is desired to obtain
are briefly these: How much OF the
following are shipped eastward out of
Southern California annually or semi
annually and from what counties: !:
Asphaltum, beans, canned and dried
fruits, citrus fruits, deciduous fruits
green, honey, nuts, onions, potatoes,
winter vegetables, wool, wine, brandy,
raisins. 1t is desirable to know what is
shipped into the country in some of the
following lines: Agricultural imple.
ments, meats and meat products, butter
and cheese, eggs and chickens, fruit
dried and green and canned, shoes, iron,
plants and trees, starch, etc.
1t would also be of advantage, if OBJ
tainable, to give the carrying of passen-
gers eastward and westward and to
show the amount of local travel-which
latter is good indication of the pros
perity of country. =.
In the opinion of your committee it
might be we'll not only to call upon the
railroads for the facts above mentioned
but also to ask the board of supervisors
and officers of the county and the
council and mayor and officers of the
city to observe as far as consistent with
their other duties, the rule of compiling
the results OF the business of their re-
spective offices in such shape as to be of
the highest possible value for statistical
purposes.
In the opinion of your committee it is,
therefore, matter of imperative neces-
sity that the publication of railway
statistics should be continued and that
the scope of this work in the public
offices should be Widened.