The herald., 1893-05-28
THE CHAMBHR OF COMMERCE,
Proceedings of the Bureau of
Information Committee.
The Fizzle of the State Exhibit at
the Chicago Fair.
Resolutions on the Irrigation Congress
to Be Held Here-The Situation
at Chicago Described by
Correspondents.

The regular meeting of the executive
committee of the bureau of information
was held at the chamber OF commerce at
10 O'Clock this morning. There were
present D. Freeman, Los Angeles coun-
ty; G. @. Welch, Santa Barbara county;
F. A. Miller, San Bernardino county; G.
M. Smith. Ventura county; Hoemer P.
McKocn, San Diego county. President
Freeman occupied the chair. O. d. Will
lard acted as secretary.
The committee on publication reported
that very few OF the last book remained
and that the new book would not be out
until some time in July. The secretary
was instructed to economic as much as
possible in the distribution of the few
remaining books.
It was resolved that correspondence
be had with the proper authorities at
Chicago to ascertain whether it would
be possible to fasten number of bound
copies OF the pamphlets at various
points about the California and horti-
cultural building for the examination Of
visitors.
The following resolution vote was
offered by unanimous vote:
Whereas, The National Irrigation as
sociation has voted to hold the next
convention in Los Angeles, and the date
has been set for October 10, 1S93 and
Whereas, Such convention, at which
will assemble several hundred men from
the United States and foreign countries
fnt of frrtnaffnn
as investors, horticulturists, engineers
and writers. will prove of incalculable
benefit to all of Southern California I;
therefore be it
Resolved, That we urge the active and
public spirited people and press OF all
Southern California TO give this enter
prise their most enthusiastic support.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE NOTES.
President Freeman of the chamber re-
Gently wrote to friend in Chicago ask
ing his candid opinion of the state OF
things with regard to the California dis
play, and in the answer the following
may be quoted:
II note all you say Of what the papers
say about the California commission and
the California building. The Califor-
mans here now see for themselves that
the California commission has simply
disgrsced itself by it's incapacity.
"The California building cannot be
completed until along in June, and 1t
appears that the commissioners have
done nothing but permit the squander-
ing of money. 1t is really too bad.
think there were too many rich men in
the commission. Excepting the ex-
hibit OF fruits California will be beaten
all around, in mining as we'll as every
| thing else.
II think when tie California building
gets into shape there will be magnif
cent exhibit there, but not one person
in q hundred will go into the state
buildings. w se55 this and hal
acted accordinglylT He has put his or.
anges intothe horticultural building and
half million people have already seen
them. Virgins is 4 asrustler, and would
give more for the results of his work
than for those Of all the rest put togeth-
er. have not seen q scrap of adver-
tising matter yet. Il suppose they are
saving that, as many other things, for
| the California building"
DR.. LeMoyne Wills also writes to Mr..
Freeman as follows:
GAS member of the chamber of com.
merce, visiting the worlds fair, who de-
sireH that California should have the
best exhibition of her products, espe-
cially her citrus fruits, possible at such a
defiance, l take the liberty of suggest
ing that you, in your official capacity,
urge by publication in the papers that
only the choicest and aoundest oranges
and lemons be sent to Chicago. The
Florida exhibit is good, but fruit old and
spelling, and consider that California
will have great opportunity, if the
growers who are getting scarcely any
thing for their best fruit will send and
keep sending their best fruit here. Mr..
| Wiggins told me he was not receiving
average fruit and much of it was soft
and spelling. This advice may be SUI
perfluous, but is written you for the good
of our southern country. Great credit
is due to Mr.. G. NJ. Wells and Mr.. Wig
gins and the other Southern California
gentlemen for their clever selection oI
space for the Southern California exhibit
in Horticultural hall, whereby California
has her citrus columns at either end,
so overshadows the Illinois and Mich.
| igan cold storage apples, not well-pla.
csrded, that the average visitor, dazed
by the countless golden oranges from
Pasadena at one end to San Diego at the
other, thinks the whole exhibit from
California. The California building il
not done, but rapidly being finished.
Southern California has a better chance
in horticultural hall, and it would pay
the orange men to keep their oranges as
long as possible and keep sending the
best and finest throughout the summer.
If apples can be kept in such perfect
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here and kept in cold storage until
needed to replace those in columns. 1t
will pay our section to spend money in
this way. am not an orange sharp,
nor am interested in orange growing,
but what benefits one in our glorious
and favored section, benefits ALL"