The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28
Commercial Club of Stockton Gives First
Annual Boosters Banquet

STOCKTON. June 27.-Two hundred
leading business men and women as
sembled at TIE new hotel. the stockton,
tonight, enjoyed a rare banquet con-
sisting entirely of san joaquin county
products, heard excellent addresses
along promotion lines, pleasing musical
numbers by local talent and partici-
pated in the launching Of a campaign
to bring settlers to San Joaquin county.
The occasion was the first annual
banquet of the Commercial club of San
Joaquin county, an organization COM
prised of energetic businessmen who
have adopted the one line of promotion
work as Indicated by their slogan:
Bring More People Here" It works
In conjunction with the chamber of
commerce and board of trade, but cen
ters its efforts on inducing settlers to
locate in this county.
The menu. san Joaquin county grown,
was as follows, the places from which
the products came, appearing after
each dish:
p.o,.s.. r..;Fape Grapefruit RiPSP Sgl,o. .e,mno
Chicken broth Escaion. santerne FL Plnal
Striped bass San Joaquin river.
Potatoes Rindge. Filet of beef Pennington.
Punch Commercial club.
Royal squab French Camp.
Peas Rough and Ready island.
Potatoes LOckeford-
Claret FL Pinal. Asparagus, orwood.
''e 's' Spec Special coffee Tracy. I'eS 90 "a
Commercial club cigars, made in Stockton.
ADDRESS BY MAYOR
J. L. Craig, president of the club,
with a few pleasant words, introduced
r. p. Teefy of the San Joaquin val
ley bank, as toastmaster. Teefy intro
duced Mayor +. r. Reibenstein as the
frcf L ri1Es CO Il
Located as we are, accessible to
water and railroad transportation,
having tributary to us q most fer
tile, productive and producing COM
munity, we were soon recognized as
a suitable locality for manufac-
turing center and distributing point
and there came our big -four mills
and agricultural implement manu-
factories and various foundrieS and &
iron works.
IMPORTANCE OF CITY
We ourselves then awakened to
the fact that we, by reason of our
natural advantages, were of more
than ordinary Importance, and
collective effort was made to let
the outside world know of the
county OF San joaquin, the city of
Stockton, our productive soil. and
the thriving condition of city and
county, and this promotion and ad-
vertising persistently pursued has
not only called TO the attention of
others, but has resulted in we, our
selves, coming to realize our own
Importance.
In the last five years the number
of tax payers in the county of San
joaquin has more than doubled;
the number of small farms has in
creased more than tenfold and in
creased assessed valuation of prop
erty has been more than 80 per
cent; we have now two lines OF
steamers plying between Stockton
and San Francisco and are on the
not, 1fs,1 af - tr.aTa ont n Ia
railroads and will soon be con-
nected with the greatest electric
system of railways in the west.
GROWTH HAS BEEN HEALTHY
That our growth has been a
healthy one and one that has in
spired the confidence of investors
is best indicated by the readiness
with which our good roads bonds
and the bonds of the South San
Joaquin irrigation district have
been purchased by investors.
The fertility of our soil and the
advantages of our location have
been in no small measure the cause
of this growth and development,
but the promotion and advertise
ment we have received by the COM
mercial bodies has had a large part
in It. and again, gentlemen of this
Commercial club, / congratulate you
upon your efforts and hope that you
may continue the good work you
have entered upon, though much
has been done, much more may be
accomplished.
The committee in charge of arrange
ments, believing in the cooperation O.
the women, selected Mrs. Edna Or
\ James, a prominent educator of thi
city, to speak on the toast, .'Wha'
Women Can Do as Empire Builders"
Mrs. James touched on several ques
tions -of vital Importance She begaI
her remarks by saying that the woman
Of today was the same as her grand