The San Francisco call., 1897-03-10
GOOD WORK FOR
CALIFORNIA
Annual Meeting of Members
of the State Board
of Trade.
Interesting Reports Made by
General Chipman and ].
A. Filcher.
Officers Elected for the Ensuing Term.
Some Sugges tions for Flu.
ture Work

At the annual meeting of the State
Board of Trade held yesterday good deal
of time was expended in the discussion of
the reports handed in by President N. p.
Cnipman and Seer etary J. A. Filcher.
That of the president was read first.
The report showed that. despite the gen.
eral impression that the first crop all over
the State was badly hurt by the frost of
1885, 1.-The actual falling off of deciduo
fruits attributable to frost was less than
IL per cent" The important features of
the document were summed up in the fol-
lowing excerpt:
Another noticeable feature worthy of atten-
tion is that we exported or sent out of the
State in 1898 nearly 1000 carloads OF vege-
tables, while in 1896 the exports had fallen to
1917 carloads.
The shipments have fallen off rapidly since
1893 / am unable to account for this decline
in an industry that gave such promise of bene-
fit 20 the STATED unless it be in part that our
products are now driven out of consumption
by increased i'm poration, the result OF made
Quate protection and in part from general
railing off in consumption In the line OF econ
omy ofliving.
l commend the subject to the board as
worthy of investig in order 10 discover
the cause and find the remedy.
The wine and brandy industry holds its
place in Importance with great tenacity, and
l find no serious cause for encouragement
in the fruit industry, but much 10 encourage.
1t has suffered in common with all other oc-
cupaiiOns since the hard times fell upon our
country but with revival of trade and bust
ness no industry will feel the impulse OF the
Improvement more quickly or more certainly
thai this.
We have boxed the compass OF all difficulties
as to the art of planting trees and growing
fruit. There are very few ii any pitfalls 4or
the intelligent orchardist that direction.
ha cffo of
continues to halt timid minds, and there is
much perplexity as to the best method to
market our fruit.
Though it was admitted that some of
the fruits had nece ssarily suffered d little
through trans portation from this City to
the Atlanta Exposition and back, Secre-
tary Filcher maintained that the exhibit
at the Post-street rooms is quite up to the
standard. Some trouble, he stated, had
been found with peaches, which were
cracked in most cases so as to admit the
EN- balming fluid and cause fermentation.
He emphasized earnestly the attention
the State should give the Guatemala and
Hamburg expositions and said several
tons of exhibits had already been placed
in the hands of the beard for transporta-
tion to Hamburg.
The financial report shows that on
February 8 the balance on hand amounted
TO $2030 IS. and the receipts for that
month OF Sis so made the total on March
| 9 foot up the sum of $2749 25. The dis
| bursements left on deposit $19l1 69.
| For the ensuing Term the directors of the
| State Board of Trade will be General N. P.
Chapman, w. H. Mills. B. N. Rowley, C.
f. Montg omery, E. W. Maslin, J. S.
Emery. Senator George C. Perkins, P. A.
Buell., Colonel John P. Irish, c. NJ. Woos-
ter and Mark l.. Mcdonald.
General Chipman was reelected presi-
dent and J. A. Fisher secretary and gen.
eral manager. J. S. Emery was elected
first vice. president and G. P. Montgomery
second vice president. The Crocker-
Woolworth National Bank remains the
treasurer.