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be well to see if the river traffic has all
needed accommodations on the river
front IT is in order to see if shorter time
cannot be secured for railroad passage
tween here and San Francisco. While
for three years things generally nave
dragged elsewhere, in this city the
growth has been large. Frequent visits
to the metropolis are necessary, and
citizens therefrom have to make calls
en- State officials. The situation calis
for special accommodations on an EAST
ern basis for rapid transit between two
such important cities.
The matter Of new City Hall is one
of those subjects that is almost daily
forced upon the attention of citizens
having any local pride. The situation is
so bad that it will hardly bear puohc
discussion. Some joint arrangement, 10
be made between the city and county,
ia their mutual interests, seems neces-
sary and desirable.
The Committee on Manufactures
should earnestly take up the work IN
their line and see if there are not other
localities successfully manufacturing
articles for general consumption that
we are importing from Eastern markets
and which we have locally better facil-
tiles for making.
The Committee on Membership should
now get to work promptly and round out
the membership roll, as former efforts
show can easily be done, so that the Or
ganization will be extended throughout
the city and surrounding country. This
will permit all interests to give and re-
ceive more or less needed fostering care.
The wholesale houses and larger inter-
ests should give the chamber all the
members they can from their firms, ana
the smaller concerns can we'll AFFORD TO
select at least one of their number TO
represent them to aid and keep in touen
with the work that the chamber shall
from time to time take up. Citizens in
all departments of life should become
members.
While the Board Of Directors has
Joined the Federated Trades Council
in the matter of a call for public
meeting to consider and further the
interest of the proposed bounty on
agricultural products" it will be well
to refer this matter to a special commit
tee for the purpose of supplementing
the work of the joint meeting, and for
the deliberate expression Of the ideas
of the chamber on this important meas
ure to be expressed to the public and to
our member in Congress.
This is the best location for the pro-
posed Government gun plant. 1t is in
direct communication with all parts or
the Pacific Coast. It is far enough in
land to be free from attack, and is
always supplied with a surplus of
skilled labor. Nearly all other gun
plants Of the Government are like sit
uated
While this organization is loyal first
to this locality, it is at all times ready
to cooperate with other bodies here or
elsewhere in efforts for the public good
The Manufacturers and Producers
Association of San Francisco have re-
Gently taken in hand the matter of in
coming japanese cheap labor products
They will ask Congress to appoint a
commission to look into the subject and
report back to it the findings. This is
good work in the right direction and in
the right way. It has been said that
the Japanese are a silent people, push
ing, energetic. but keeping their own
counsels and quietly getting possession
of the market.
It will be well to supplement the
work Of the San Francisco organization
on the business lines that they have
suggested
Perhaps the work can be accom-
plished before the question is carried
to the top of the stump by some trim
ming politician who don't produce any
thing but discord and taxation, and
whose article of personal consumption
comes mostly from the enterprising
State of Kentucky. Good, quiet busi-
ness work is effective. Public clamor
for home products and manufactures
exclusively does not sound real well
from the mouthpiece of a people who
have a growing surplus of their own
productions and who are properly en-
gagged in pushing them to the ends OF
the earth.
While your Committee on Statistics is
not really at work yet, and figures are
lacking, let me give you some of the
assured results of their first calcula-
tions.
The year just past has gone hence as
a better one. Legitimate mining that
clasps the hills that line the snowy
crescent which centers in our near
northeast, has taken on new life. 1t
seems most vigorous after its sleep of
many years. The present proves that
old abandoned mines are better far than
new ones. The output seems to be re-
spending to the echo of the late cry of
hard times. Eastern men are looking