Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-11-17
STRONGLY. FAVORS
SAN FRANCISCO
PROMINENT CAPITALIST OPPOS-
ED TO NEW ORLEANS AS
EXPOSITION SITE
The Panama Canal a West Coast
Proposition and Built Essentially
Tor the Benefit Of the West and to
Facilitate Trade.

Guy NJ. Walker of New YORK CITY,
prominent capitalist and railroad
organizer, well known throughout
the east and southeast, is emphati
cally and enthusiastically for san
Francisco as the site for the propos-
ed site for the Panama exposition
in 1915. Mr.. Walker recently visit
ed San Francisco and while there ex-
pressed his preference in unmistak-
able terms at the same time giving
strong reasons for his opposition 10
New Orleans.
Il am for San Francisco first, last
and all the time as the site for tho
Panama exposition said Mr.. Walk
er. land | am unalterably opposed
IT, New Orleans. For New Orleans, or
any other gulf city to advance a
claim to the proposed exhibition to
celebrate the opening Of the Pans-
ma canal is ridiculous.
New Orleans handles the exports
of the Mississippi Valley and the cot
ton and wheat of Texas and SO per
cent of that goes to either New York
of Europe. 1t will never go through
the canal and the attempts of the
New Orleans boosters to get the ex-
position on the ground that the cam
al will add materially to the export
trade of that city is preposterous.
"The Panama canal is essential
" a west coast proposition. 1t was
conceived and is being built with the
primary object Of enabling eastern
manufactures to ship their products
to the Pacific coast and to Oriental
ports by shorter and more economical
route, and to facilitate trade between
the Pacific coast and European coun-
tries. 1t will benefit San Francis
co ten times as much as it viii BEN
eft New Orleans
"The summer time is the time for
vacations and travel. yet the mere
idea of New Orleans attempting to
hold an exposition in the smmrci
hold an exposition in the summer is
rreposterous. What with the heat,
the plague Of mosquitoes and the fe-
fer New Orleans is in the summer
what General Sherman called war
Walker is chairman of the reor-
ganization of the Columbus. Dele
ware and Marion Railroad of Ohio
and also of the reorganization COM
mittee of the Indianapolis, Crawford
Vile and Western Idniana Railroed
Company.
II am Interested in railroads
Texas. Mississippi and Louisiana ana
have been in New ORLEANS dozens of
times, so I think l am qualified 20
judge l am going to New Orleans
again in a few days. / shall wear q
Panama Pacific booster button on
my coat and let the people down there
know that I am San Francisco
booster and a good one
From an educational point Of
view San Francisco is immensely SUI
perior to New Orleans as a site for
o great exposition. People coming to
San Francisco will be Afforded q
splendid opportunity to see the Won
ders of the west, wonders that are
unequaned anywhere on earth. PEG
pie going to New Orleans will see
the nothing more. And
having seen the exposition they Will
return home as soon as possible.
IF the exposition is held in San
Francisco is will draw double the
number Of visitors from the far east
that an exposition in New Orleans
would, Notwithstanding the widely
advertised fact that that city is near
er the center Of population"