Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-31
COMMITTEE OF
COUNTIES SOON
TO MEET HERE
CALIFORNIA PROMOTERS TO
HAVE BIG SESSION
SAN FRANCISCO DEEPLY INTER-
EsTED IN OUTCOME
Special Trains to Run into Los An.
geIes November 13 from Neigh
boring Towns-Large At
tendance Expected
TBy Associated Press.1

~ AN FRANCISCO, Oct. 30.-As time
~ approaches for the event interest
~ Increases in the tenth semi-annual
the California promotion committee, to
be held in Los Angeles November II
next.
Returns from all parts of the state
indicate a greater attendance than at
any previous meeting. There seems to
be a general desire to discuss the
theme, 1.-The Tourist in California" ana
many plans for his allurement and en-
tertainment will be formulated.
A special train will be run from San
Diego on the night of November 1S, ar
irving in Los Angeles early in the
morning of the 14th, to accommodate
the hundred or more delegates from
that county and vicinity.
Trains from Near BY
Pasadena, Long Beach, Santa Monica,
Hollywood and Monrovia will run spe-
ciaI electric trains from the several
localities, and Riverside, Redlands and
San Bernardino will be well repre-
sented.
Throughout the coast counties dele
gates will join the special train from
San Francisco, which train also will be
augmented by large delegations from
the Sacramento valley counties, San
Joaquin valley counties, north Of bay
counties and north coast counties.
Contra Costa county will send ten
delegates. Alameda county will send
thirty or forty delegates, arrange
ments having been made for special
Pullman cars to go through from Oak
land on the morning of the 18th, then
join the special train from San Fran
cisco at San Jose.
Many from North
AT least fifteen or twenty counties
will be In the party from the north-of-
bay counties.
Fresno county advised that the en-
tire board of directors of the Fresno
county chamber of commerce will at
tend.
Careful estimates made by the Cali
fornia promotion committee shows that
San Francisco now contains upward OF
$4,000 inhabitants.
That this increase is synchronous
with similar increase all over the
state is shown by reports received
from the bay cities and from Los An
geles, and all interior points where the
increase in population has been a
SlStuy dilh hSdilliy SIOWlh OuilhS lIiS
past two and half years.
State Bank Report
While reports of the state bank COM
mission shows decrease in savings bank
deposits, reports from all cities where
such decrease is noted show heavy
increase in home building, the bank
decrease going into permanent inn
provements.
In addition to this home building in
cities and towns there is noted a
quickening demand for small farms in
all parts of the state, and much of the
money that formerly went into savings
banks is now being invested in agri-
cultural property.
Financial conditions throughout Cali
fornia are good. and considerable out
side money is reported as coming in
for investment in various industries.
First shipments of oranges are re-
ported from the Sacramento valley and
indications are that the coming sea-
son will be noted for a heavy crop in
all parts of the state, the fruit having
an especially fine appearance.