The San Francisco call., 1901-12-05

sprague, said, but was now in good run
ming order. The reader continued:
During the past year. the first of our or
ganization We handled fruit to the value of
S2OS,OOO. at an expense of $4,000. With hve
season we feel that We will be enabled to do
twice as much business next year.
A. G. McAdie of the Weather Bureau
was present and extended an invitation
to the delegates to visit his office and
talk about frost.
Theodore Kearney of Fresno spoke on
the raisin industry. He apologized for
ing an account of his experiences with
raisins, raisin growers and packers. He
said:
There is one thing about the raisin business.
which is also true of all fruit business-you
must fix price and maintain it. Contracts
must be so drawn to bind the grower to de-
liver the fruit when he contracts to do so.
For failure to do this last season the raisin
growers of Fresno only received an average Of
fnf5 5a8e Teceved 4 cents and when
There is necessity for legislative action in this
regard and the matter should be presented to
the next LEGISLATURE.
Kearney was instructed to prepare a
memorial for the consideration of the
convention and later the Legislature.
Subjects to Be Considered.
At the opening of the afternoon session
Chairman Cooper announced that the
considered by the committee were the
Nicaragua canal, irrigation and forest
preservation, eXtention of the consular
service in the interests of manufacturers
and producers and the Pacific cable. F.
N. RICHTER, William Johnson and NJ w.
Motherall were named the committee.
w. J. Hotchkiss in his paper on the
future of the wine industry of the State
claimed that the success of the industry
would depend more upon increased pro-
duction of cheaper wines, SO that on the
Ii H. 11l@
with beer, milk or coffee in price. He
claimed the San Joaquin Valley would in
q few years become the greatest wine
producing region of the West
His views were discussed and combatted
by Professor E. ", Hilgard, Professor
Hausmann of Napa, w. H. Aiken and
others.
r. D. Stephens of Sacramento. chair
man of the permanent committee on
transportation, who has had as much to
do with advancing the fruit interests of
California as any other man in the State
asked for further time in which to make
the report. The matter will be specially
taken up this afternoon. 1t is deemed one
of the most important to come before the
convention.
A very lively debate was precipitated
when Theodore Kearney presented a
memorial, first to be presented to a com
mittee of seven drawn from the conven-
ton, later on that committees report to
the convention of next year, and then to
the Legislature. The memorial is as fol-
lows:
Resolved, That whereas our laws, as inter-
preted by the courts, enable manufacturers
and others to form combinations and control
prices through sale of any number of prop
critics to one concern and that these laws
practically forbid the formation of associations
of producers for similar purpose because il
is not possible to vest the title to innumer-
able farms in one company; and that this con-
dition is a gross injustice to all producers,
and constitutes one of the greatest obstacles
to the general prosperity of the whole State.
in that it compels them to pay combination
prices for everything they buy while pre-
venting them from obtaining combination
prices for what they have to sell; and
Resolved, That 1t is absolutely essential
to the success Of our producers that they form
associations among themselves for the proper
grading and marketing of their products. the
Legislature Of this State is hereby respectfully
petitoned to enact a law at it's next session
which will effectively and Immediately place
our producers on an equality before the law
in this respect with any and all combinat tions.
Discuss the Trust Question.
In the speeches that followed the ques-