The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-04
sUccEssFUL PROMOTION.

Two late events IN CdiIOFIIld are ASS
sons in the line of successful promo
ton, which, in that State. during the
last few years, has effected an almost
complete transformation. Indifference,
apathy and rigid adherence to the poll
CIV of concentration and exclusion have
been there succeeded by intelligent and
combined labor for development and for
| increase of the best elements of popu-
lation. Among other things the con-
struction of capacious irrigating canals
has resulted in the division of large
tracts of land into farms of from TWEEN
ty to forty acres, so that where former
ly few men gathered fortunes, now
hundreds of families are supported in
comfort This has been done in the
San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys
where, during the summer time at least,
the heat is far greater and more oppres-
sive than in the Hawaiian Islands.
A public jubilee, lasting. for three
days, over the. completion of one OF
these canals. has just been held at Mo-
desto in Stanislaus County. Practical
ly every interest in the State was rep
reaented. Governor Pardee and Pres
ident Wheeler of the Berkeley Univer-
sity were there. w. S. Green, the edi-
tor of the Colusa Sun, who has de-
voted his life to irrigation, was pres
ent and was greatly honored. The
State Board of Trade, the California
Promotion Association and the Mer-
chants Association of San Francisco
sent prominent and able delegates. The
speeches were all crammed with facts
and blended into each other. James
A. Waymire. a lawyer who has ex-
ceeded all other men in the adaptation
of the local statutes to local necessi-
ties and both sunk and raised for
tune in the Turlock irrigating district
showed by comparison that California
is richer than Italy and could support
forty millions of people.
In San Francisco, a few days later,
the California Promotion Association
held its annual banquet, the object and
subject of which was the rapid adj
of the commercial metropolis |
and the state. Men of force, experience |
and patriotism moulded facts and fig
ures of different industries into COM |
pact and startling whole, filled with |
evidences of prosperity and of future |
probabilities. Tt was proved that Cali |
fornia, with two per cent. of the popu- |
lation, agriculturally and industrially |
leads the Union at the st. Louis EXPOSE |
ton. Proportionately she is far ahead |
of any other section in manufactures, |
in farm products, in agricultural prod |
ucts, in lumber products, in mineral |
products, in farm animals. in improved |
farms, in miles of railroad, in the |
spent for education, and in the |
and application of electric |
power. John Mcknight, a hard-train- |
ed journalist who has lately become a |
noted orator, was naturally moved to /
touching elequence.''
But sentiment, though an appropriate |
adjunct of the occasion, did not pre-
vent decisive action. The project of the
Pacific Ocean Exposition at San Fran
cisco in 1913, when it is expected that |
the completion of the Panama Canal
viii be celebrated, has become an as
sured fact. Frank L. Hogs has made
a strict but unavailing search for Ha-
wall at St. Louis. If he lives, he may |
find her adequately represented nine
years later at San Francisco