The record-union., 1896-01-14
BOARD OF TRADE EXHIBIT.
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cannot afford to do this with relation to
California. One of the parties inter
viewed by your contemporary says that
the people who have come here have
come intending to stay. Desiring to
treat these gentlemen with that cour-
tesy which is due them as gentlemen
from a gentleman enough have a
right to plead the want Of it at their
hands), permit me to say that Who
ever made this statement has proven
that he is not familiar with the truth
of the matter. Whoever attempts to
teach should first vindicate his right to
do so by proving that he is in posses
sion of the necessary knowledge.
Now it is not true that the people who
come to California have come intending
to stay. California has been visited by
thousands of people who did not remain
after they had made thorough exam
ination of its advantages and resources
In 1873, y, 900 people came into this
State. Before the end of 1874 nearly al
of them had returned. The difficulty
which besets the new conner is in find
ing a location. If he has brought his
family with him, it will exhaust his re-
sources to place them in boarding
house and travel over this State for the
purpose of finding a suitable home
Many of those who do come intending to
stay, find their means melt away before
they can find a suitable location. I am
speaking by the card in these state
ments. I have met these people and
I nj he
great majority of those who visit Cali
fornia do not intend to stay; that inten-
tion is formed by attractions presented
here
The register of the State Board OF
Trade show that thousands of these
people have visited the exhibit and have
become acquainted with and attracted
to the resources of the State by it. To
be convinced that this is true it is only
necessary to ask, Where could anyone
go to-day to be made acquainted with
the different portions of the State OF
California by coming to San Francisco?
True, they might be told of various To-
calities which they might visit; but for
more than half Of the year there is moth
ing to be seen. The fruit harvests OF
California do not last the year round
IT is only during a few months of the
year that what California is capable OF
doing could be exhibited by showing its
orchards. But through the splendid ex-
hibit of the State Board of Trade the ca
pacities of those orchards are presented
in an object lesson which can never be
forgotten.
An exhibition of the capacities of the
whole Pacific Coast would be invalua-
BILE, because the great majority of those
who come have not come intending to
stay. But such an exhibition is of pc
culiar value to the State of California.
When its resources are shown in the
form of an object lesson continually
presented, and when it is shown to hun
dreds of visitors every day equally illus
trative Of capacities Of the State at any
time of the year, the desire is created in
the mind of the beholder to examine the
State with reference to his ultimate set
tlement here.
The exhibition should be greatly en-
larged. 1t should present all the raw
materials suitable for manufacture
sand for glass, clay for pottery, stone
for building, iron ores for smelling, with
a full round of mineralogical resources
OF this metall1ferOuS region.
The gentlemen who have been inter
viewed speak of an exhibit of California
products at the East as if it were new
and original California made an eX-
hibit at the East during the Worlds
Fair. 1t cost the State $500 900 to make
that exhibit. Mr.. Ferguson, one of the
parties interviewed, a gentleman whose
efficiency and local patriotism will not
be doubted, was the Superintendent OF
that exhibit. de was the special repre-
sentative of the Kern County Land
Company. He knows that more people
examined that exhibition of California; S
wonderful resources during the time OF
the Worlds Fair than would see a per-
manent exhibit in Chicago in five years
It would be interesting to have Mr. Fer
guson's testimony as to the direct effect
of that exhibit upon immigration to
California, not of the general effect OF
inducing the belief that California was
wonderful country and melting a feel
ing in the minds of people that at some
indefinite time and in some indefinite
way they will become citizens of this
State, but that direct effect which re-
suited in the establishment of prosper
Gus colonies traceable directly to the
exhibit made by California at the
Worlds Fair.
The State Board of Trade by the assist
ance of the Southern Pacific Company
sent out exhibitions in a train called
California On Wheels" They were
leisurely examined py 100000 people
This wasa more comprehensive Eastern
exhibit than has yet been made.
The State Board of Trade sent an ex-
hibit to Columbus, O., which was visited
by over 250,000 people
My critics do not appear to be aware
of the fact that during the entire year
1894 one of the finest exhibits ever got
ten together, outside of that presented
by the State Board of Trade at Atlanta,
was made at 112 Dearborn street. Chi