The San Francisco call., 1905-04-05
Promotion Body Is
Satisfied With
Its Labors.
AROUSES INTEREST
Extension of Work
Is the Hope of
Its Members.

A large number of representative
members Of the California Promotion
Committee, the organization that has
done so much during the last three
years TO upbuild the Golden State and
the city of San Francisco. gathered
last night at the committee head
quarters on New Montgomery street
10 hear reports and take steps toward
raising additional money with which
to carry on the good work. Speeches
we're made that aroused great enthu-
siasrn among the business men present
and all Of them seemed delighted with
the splendid results obtained, and i'm
pressed with the necessity Of carrying
on the work in the future on a still
larger scale.
A. Sberboro, president Of the organi-
zstion. was in the chair. In present
ing the executive officer, Rufus P.
Jennings, who is in fact the general
manager Of the committee, Mr.. Sbar-
boro said that if the gentlemen present
were satisfied with the work done he
hoped they would lend their assistance
toward raising the increased revenue
needed by the committee.
Mr.. Jennings delivered a statement
covering briefly. though thoroughly.
the work Of the committee during the
three years OF its existence, and the
showing was a gratifying one. "It has
been said by some" he stated in the
opening part of the document. that
the awakening of California came
about at the time of Deweys victory
at Manila, but the members of this
committee can truly say that the real
awakening occurred at the time the
California Promotion Committee be-
gan its operations, and figures prove
IT,"
The statement then called attention
to the facts that the bank clearings in
San Francisco increased from 1900 10
1904 something like $500, 900, 600. as
against $120, 600, 600 during the ten
years preceding, $3.50, ,O0O.0 of the
first mentioned increase being in the
last three years; that the real estate
sales from 1902 TO 1904, inclusive,
averaged more than sac, 100000 a
year, while in 1900 they were S1S.50o,-
600. The statement also showed the
vast increase in building during the
last three years.
POPULATION FIGURES.
The tremendous increase in colonist
travel since the committee came into.
existence is shown. Excerpts from the
report are as follows:
The State population in 1890. according to TIE
according TO the twelfth census l.4S5. .O53, q
al increase Of 276,623 in ten years. From
returns received from the hfty-two principal
cities Of the State an average increase since
1900 is shown Of 56. l6 per cent, which. ap
piled to the population OF the State in 1900
l. e l.4S5.600 gives the present population
OF the State as 2.s1s.s7e. or an increase Of
the ten Years from 1890 "a Ieon In 1900
these hfty-two cities contained about half
the population Of the State al that time and
the increase Of 56-l6 per cent applied 10 that
r-r~lfr 4 "a
ent population Of the ifty-two cities or about
hall the present estimated population of the
State. showing the same proportion maintained
and the accuracy Of the figures. On a very
Conservative estimate Il can be safely stated
tLat there are now 1900, ,Go0 people in Cali
tornia. or an increase Of $4,000 in the last
Ia the ten years previous.
In San Francisco the population in 1900
was 342, st2 increase OF ~. 1875 in ten
years. whereas the committee figures on esti-
mates received from various sources that there
are at the present time in the neighbOrhood
OF $4,000 people in san Francisco, or an in
crease Of l4+.0o in four years.
Lp TO April 1905. 2iS.419 letters were
received and mailed to inquirers Letters to
lnquirers are personal ana based on the needs
o. each inquirer.
One million FIVE hundred thousand piecee Of
literature dealing with all industrial phases
o. California have been sent out.
TIC committee has advertised in Eastern
publications with an aggregate circulation OF
y -eel.o .oo9 ana obtained therefron the names Of
nearly Ge,ooe persons. many OF whom have
Tbs committee has succeeded in getting man
riscturers and capital 70 California.
Upon the suggestion Of the committee own
eTs n something like seventy large tracts
nave subdividcd their land and the work is
constantly going on 70 get other land owners
T. sUbdi'-ide their properties
The publicity campaign In newspapers and
mage zines outside Of California has been pro-
luanneed by outsiders as well as by our home
J'eoDle ts be The most Widespread @-tginaI ana
effective ever promulgated by any organization
of its kind.
over 80 illustrated articles. averag ging 1000
words each. have been published in periodicals
arc Enags@ines whose aggregate circulation is
over 5000 Geo
Special numbers have been issued by some
of the leading publications in the East, all un-
Der the auspiccs of the committee and new ar
ttcles and special numbers are being arranged
for
No other State has had sucn systematic ex-