The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-10-31
A COUNTY SPACE
Proposal By California
Board of Trade.
Island Exhibit and Literature Want
ed Suggestions and Good
Wishes Sent.
California State Board of Trade.

California State Board of Trade.
San Francisco, Cal, Oct II. 1898.
EDITOR ADVERTISER Sir:
The California State of Board of
Trade, which was founded about eleven
years ago for the purpose of inducing
immigration TO the shores of the Paci-
fic, promoting the development of our
many and varied rich resources and
settling up the fruitful valleys of the
State, feels a special interest in the
progress, prosperity and further deveI-
Opment of the Hawaiian Islands. es-
peclally since their annexation to the
United States. While many miles dis
tant, you are, nevertheless. nearer Cali
fOrnia than any other of the American
States, and commercially and indus
trlally there is no reason why we
should not cooperate on the lines of
mutual development
Our organization maintains an Ella
borate exhibit of the industrial re-
sources of the State, including fruits,
cereals, minerals and other products,
which is made up by displays from the
different counties. This exhibit serves
to illustrate to the tourists, to the
hOme-Seeker to the prospective inyes-
tor, and>tO others interested in CalifOr-
MIA but who have not the time or
means to travel throughout the State,
the nature of the resources and pos
sibilities of the different sections. 1t
is visited daily by travellers and others
in search OF information about Califor-
MIA, and is considered an interesting
and instructive object lesson.
We desire to interest the people of
the Islands in our work, believing and
knowing that we are in a condition to
do more for you in the way OF illus
trating your resources and disseminate
ing reliable information in regard to
your opportunities and possibilities
than any other institution, perhaps, on
the continent. Our close relations geo.
graphically prompt us to suggest your
utilization.
Our Board would take in the Islands
on the same terms and conditions that
We take in a California County. You
would be expected TO keep your quar-
tiers supplied with literature descrip-
tive of the Islands and their resources
and explanatory of the advantages
offered to investors and home seekers,
and supply and maintain with us an
exhibit of your products. Articles for
exhibit could be sent here, carefully
packed. and would be put up and dis
played and cared for by the State Board
of Trade. The cost to you for floor
space and care and membership would
be the same as to California County,
viz: SIS a month.
Through your paper we desire to cal
/ the attention of your enterprising peo-
! pie to this proposition, and trust that
! arrangements can be made whereof!
/ such an utilization can be accomplish
ed. 1t has occurred to us that your
| Bureau of Agriculture could take upoT
itself the management of this work a
J your end of the line, and pay the small
amount of dues, only $3.50 year, GU
I of revenue provided for their support
Since annexation has become an &C
/ complished fact we have great many
/ inquiries for information regarding the
/ Islands. which we are not now able tC
! give as fully and completely and au
/ chemically as it ought to be given; bu
I by the means suggested this deficiency
/ could be supplied, and we are very con
fident that the benefits which yoJ
would derive from such an arrange
ment would be many fold greater thar
the cost.
1t is possible that this Board may
send a representative to the Island;
, some time this winter for the purpose
! of acquiring some of the information
! and data OF which we stand in need
and incidentally arranging to cemen
! more closely the good fellowship o
your people and those of the Pacific
Coast. Should utilization with the STATE
Board of Trade not be cOnsummated IL
the meantime on the lines here sug
gested, it would be the duty of the
Boards representative also TO try anC
bring this about.
Yours very truly,
J. A. FILCHER.
N,nnr.ntnr,r aud Man