The San Francisco call., 1910-12-07
JUDGE PRAISES STOCKTON

Judge n. P. Chipman of the distric
court of appeals, responded to tn
mayor and said:
I have in the past years looked
upon Stockton as the largest en-
porium in the interior of the state.
Logically there is no reason why
Stockton should not be the great
est commercial center outside of
San Francisco and the bay cities.
We hear a great deal now days
about the gateway city. Stockton
has been called the gateway city
and other cities, have claimed the
same distinction. / will state,
however, that Stockton justly
makes such claim.
/ am a resident of Sacramento
and am loyal to my city. At pres
ent Sacramento is looming up in
fine style and is greatly in advance
of Stockton. ] believe that is due
TO the people who have awakened
and have encouraged manufactures
TO locate there.
The location of Stockton is with
out doubt superior TO any other
city outside of San Francisco. and
If you don't go to the front it is
your own fault.
/ agree with you. Mr.. Mayor, in
your statement that the fruit in
dustry is the diminant industry Of
the state. This organization be-
gan in 1882. During those early
days there were very few fruit
growers and wheat was king In
1900 the state shipped out 5000
carloads. of ten tons, of the prod
ucts of the orchards and gardens.
Today we are shipping out 100000
carloads.
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT
The forenoon session was closec
with the address by President ]. w
Jeffrey, who said in part:
Since ] last addressed the annual
convention at Watsonville we have
had one year of adventure in the
Standardization of deciduous fruits,
and two counties have reorgan
ganized for the coming year. In
this work we have applied some
new economic principles. or at
least revived some old half for
gotten principles that may seem
novel in their application to the
fruit trade.
Did it ever occur to the mem
bers of this convention that CAL
ifornia is under special moral OBJ
legations to send an honest and
uniform fruit pack? All will ad-
nit that it pays TO do so. but in
our case both moral obligation and
self interest join in the new plan
of improving the fruit pack. and
] can not see why. under these
sary to agitate a matter so conclu-
sively established. But ii is nee
essary, for out of over three dozen
meetings held in deciduous fruit
counties only five of these counties
adopted Standardization.
AS we approach the relationship
of Standardization to over produc-
tion, think the subject deserves a
side remark upon competition in
the fruit business-justified also by
purposes of this convention, for we
are not here to consider solely the
methods whereby we can grow
more and better fruits. Cultural
matters IN horticulture have been
given relatively too much atten-
tion-relatively. I say, because it
follows inevitably that the elin1in-
alton of dishonest and destructive
competition in the production of
fruits by raising the standards will
do more for better horticulture
than all other influences combined.
Our subject here swallows itself
and winks with great agility" like
Barnum's famous snake, for how
can we advance Standardization
and legitimately curtail the OUT
put of unit fruit against the prod
ucts of ignorant and inefffcfent