Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-30
JOHN D. OF JAPAN
|NSPECTs HARBOR
Baron Mitsui and Party Pay Fly
ing Visit to Los Angeles
and Vicinity

Baron Mitsui, reputed to be worth
$1,000 900, and, next to the emperor,
the highest financial power of the en-
pire of Japan-the man who, 1t is be-
lieved. will buy up and ship to Japan
for spinning the greater part of the
cotton output of the Imperial valley,
arrived in Los Angeles yesterday in
the private car Pilgrim, used recently
by Mrs. Russell Sage on her tour of
the Pacific coast.
Accompanied by the baroness, his
daughter and a company of secretaries
and retainers, numbering twenty in
all, the Japanese financier spent the
forenoon touring Los Angeles and Vi
cinity and in the afternoon went to
San Pedro, where he made a thorough
inspection of Los Angeles harbor 1t
is believed this inspection has direct
bearing on recent Investigations by
Japanese steamship interests intent on
a new Transpacific line.
SO interested is Baron Mitsui in Los
Angeles and Southern California that
on arrival here he did not even wait
to go to his hotel, but instead had his
party loaded into waiting automobiles
and passed the entire morning from
$780, the time of his arrival until 49, 30
viewing this city. On returning to the
Alexandria, where a suite of six rooms
had been reserved for the use of him
self and his family, Baron Mitsu eX-
pressed himself as being greatly
pleased with the progressive spirit of
Los Angeles, both commercially and
from a civic standpoint, stating that
the upbuilding of the Pacific coast
was one of the things he was most
interested in.
LIKES VALLEYS PROSPECTS
The titled party was met at the
Santa Fe station by Col w. H. Hola-
bird, president of the California De-
velopment company, and e. E. Easton
of the Imperial Valley Land and Irri-
CATION company, with which compa
nies Baron Mitsui has dealt in secur-
ing the cotton crop of the Imperial
valley Under the guidance of these
two men the tour of the city was
made.
At the Hotel Alexandria yesterday,
before leaving for San Pedro, Baron
Mitsui, speaking of the prospects of
the Imperial valley, said:
''I am interested in the valley and
have been since the first Introduction
of cotton culture there. / have been
making a close study of the cotton in
dustry there, and am satisfied that, in
time to come, a great deal of the cot
ton which is made up into cloth in
Japan will come from Imperial valley.
There are two good reasons for this.
In the first place, Japan is the most
accessible foreign market for the cot
ton growers of the valley To reach
the great cotton mills of the eastern
states or of England and Europe
transcontinental haul by railroad must
be made, something which cuts down
the value of the cotton crop to a great
extent. The other reason is the first
reason turned around. Japan can Sc
cure it's supply of raw cotton best
from te Pacific' coast because, by so
doing, a transcontinental haul to this
coast is eliminated"
LIKE MORGAN AND JOHN ID.
While Baron Mitsui did not person
ally inspect the cotton growing facili-
ties of the Imperial valley during his
present visit, it is understood that
agents in his employ experts on cot
ton, have investigated in the valley
to a great extent, and have reported
to him. and the mere fact that he
states that the Imperial commodity
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