The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04
AN EXHIBIT FOR MEXICO.
California Products to Be Dis
PLAYED at the National
Fair.
They VIII Be Sent Down From the
Cotton Exposition at At
lanta, Ga.

tits now regarded as certainty that the
products of this State will be exhibited at
the Atlanta (Ga.) exposition and this GER
tainly makes possible an exhibition at the
Mexican International Exposition which
will be opened in the City of Mexico on
April of next year. The California State
Board of Trade will take hold of the matter
at its next meeting. Several efforts have
been made to have good exhibit, es-
pecially of raisins, dried and canned fruits
and wines, sent to the Mexican exposition,
but to no purpose. The local merchants
and producers have been DESTROYS of send
ing more of these commodities to Mexico,
but as California products have not been
properly advertised in the neighboring
republic the exports thence to that country
have always been ridiculously small.
Mexico gets all of her wines from France
and Germany and her raisins and dried
fruits from Spain.
General n. P. Chapman in recent re-
port of the shipments of California canned
fruits by sea says that last year England
took 40, 72S cases, Australia 1854 and
| New Zealand 5916, but Mexico took only
| 1O6 cases. Hundreds of gallons of Califor-
MIA wines are shipped to Europe every
wear, where German and French labels are
! to Mexico as European products. Yet
none go direct from California to that
country, which is great consumer of the
products mentioned.
This condition of affairs was explained
to the members of the Board of Trade by
Commissioner Cornely of the Mexican ex-
position. The members agreed that some
mia products in Mexico and build up a
trade with that country, but a lack of
funds prevented the Board of Trade from
taking hold of the matter and making an
exhibit.
AT the last Legislature a bill was
introduced for the appropriation
and it would have been passed had not =
Sacramento newspaper thrown a wet
blanket upon the proposition by intimating
that Commissioner Cornely was a schemer
and that he and not the Mexican Govern
ment was running the fair From all ac-
counts the Mexican Exposition will be a
success, for it will be literally patronized
no matter who is at the head.
Inc Board OF Trade will make one more
effort to exhibit in Mexico and the plan is
as follows: The board will make a fine ex-
hibit at the Atlanta fair, which will be
opened ON Septem Der 81 and will close ON
January 1. The Mexican Fair will one n n
April l, and last several months, prob
aply until september l, 1886. AT the close
of the Atlanta Fair the California exhibit
will be repaeked and shipped by
sea at small expense, and from
the sea to the City of Mexico, also at
small expense. One of the heaviest out
lays of money, for packing cases will be
avoided by using the same cases sent from
this city.
"The wine men, dried fruit and raisins
producers and the Gamers have always
been very liberal when it was matter of
advertising their goods, and will guar
antee that they will come up just as lib
orally If they can secure free advertise
ment in Mexico" said J. A. Filcher of the
Board OF Trade. at will not cost as much
money to send the California exhibit from
Atlanta to the City of Mexico as it would
to bring it back to San Francisco after the
fair is over in Georgia. An additional
special exhibit of wines, raisins, dried and
canned fruits, such as would catch the
fancy OF the Mexicans. could be shipped
rom this city direct, free of import duties,
| at small expense