The San Francisco call., 1904-02-24
GIVES VALLEY
Good PROMISE
San Francisco and Interior
Hold Conference Which Has
a Very Favorable Outcome
MONEY NEEDED FOR SHOW
All Commercial Bodies Will
Help to Raise Sum Wanted
to Provide for an Exhibit
MONEY NEEDED FOR SHOW

1
Representatives of the executive COM
mittee of the Sacramento Valley De-
velopment Association secured a prom
ise yesterday from presidents and other
representatives of commercial organi-
cations in this city of support to raise
| the money needed to adequately install
the collective exhibit Of the Sacramento
Valley counties at st. Louis. What the
committee wanted was to get San
Francisco to contribute the sum Of $4,000
to have the Sacramento Valley counties
put in shape to place a great exhibit,
to publish 100000 copies Of a Sacra-
mento Valley book descriptive OF the
entire valley, to have representatives
at st. Louis for every one OF the Sac
ramento Valley counties and to meet
such other expenses as may arise and
are not already provided for.
! 1t did not need much argument TO
| convince those that were present as
| representatives of the San Francisco
commercial organizations that to ad-
/ vertise the Sacramento Valley properly
at st. Louis was advantageous to San
/ Francisco. Action indicating this was
taken very soon after the meeting was
fairly in motion.
The first actual subscription to aid
the Sacramento Valley came from
Arthur r. Briggs, who agreed to put
up $25 personally. He said that the
California State Board of Trade. of
which he is the manager. could not do
nate any money as a body, but that it
would help all that it could. Before
the meeting adjourned it was voted to
| have committee of the secretaries Of
the commercial organizations, who are
Messrs. Fletcher of the State Board OF
Trade, King of the Merchants Asso-
citation, Friedlander of the Merchants
Exchange, Scott of the Chamber OF
Commerce, Bancroft Of the Manufac-
turers' and Producers Association and
Smith of the San Francisco Board OF
Trade, go around with a committee
from the Sacramento Valley to call
upon San Francisco merchants to get
subscriptions. This is to be done at
once. AS soon as convenient the boards
Of directors Of the commercial organiza-
tions of the city will be called together
to take such action as they may see At.
GREEN GIVES FACTS.
General W. S. Green. president OF
the Sacramento Valley Development
Association said that he expected that
the cooperation Of the commercial
bodies of the city would result in rails
ing some money. 1t had been con-
sidered that $4,000 was the share OF San
Francisco. The Sacramento Valley be-
gan only thirty-five miles from San
Francisco and was therefore in the door
yard of San Francisco. The commercial
advantage of having the Sacramento
Valley known TO the world as well as
were Los Angeles and the counties In
the south of the State was apparent
and San Francisco would appreciate II.
What Los Angeles was to the southern
counties San Francisco ought to be
to the counties in this part of the State.
He promised to appoint a committee
to cooperate with the committee of
San Francisco secretaries mentioned in
the foregoing.
The initial motion to have action
taken by the San Francisco CONNER
ciaI bodies came from Andrea Sbar-
boro, president of the Manufacturers
and Producers Association. An In
vitation was extended by Mr.. Sbarboro
on behalf of the California Promotion
Committee to use the committees
rooms as headquarters in the work TO
be undertaken on behalf of the VAL
lev. Mr. Sbarboro said that he would !
request of Mr.. Jennings. the executive /
officer of the promotion committee, to
lend assistance. Remarks were made |
by A. A. Watkins, who presided; G. |
w. McNear, General W. S. Green, |
Secretary Beard of the Sacramento |
Valley Development Association and |
J. G. MARITIME, commissioner for the |
city of Sacramento to the st. Louis /
Exposition.
EXHIBIT is EXTENSIVE.
Some of the facts that were stated 1
were already of common knowledge. !
1t was set forth by the speakers from I
the valley that the city of Sacramento I
had subscribed one-third of the fund /
of $4,000 that it was found necessary 4
to raise; that the valley show sur 4
passed any that had ever been at
tempted of a similar kind, the bulk /
being in processed fruits and vege-
tables; that the counties that would |
make the collective valley show at
st. Louis included Sacramento, SoIa-
no, Placer, Yolo, Yuba, Sutter. Colu-
sa, Butte. Glenn, Tehama, FL Dorado
and probably Shasta.
Those present were w. S. Green Of
Colusa, Secretary Board. C. F. Foster
of Tehama County, j. G.. MARITIME of I
Sacramento, John Reith Jr.. of Wood /
land, r. M. Green of Oroville, H. P.
Stabler of Yuba City, State Senator
Diggs of Marysville, Fred NJ. Buck of (
Vacaville and, from the commercial /
bodies of this city, Messrs. A. A Wat
kins, Arthur r. Briggs, A. Sbarboro,
Rufus P. Jennings and G. w. McNear.