The San Francisco call., 1910-03-08
1915 EXPOSITION
AGAIN INDORS[D
Tracy and West San Joaquin
Board of Trade Support
Panama=PacifiC

Endorsements of the Panama -Pacifi
international exposition, to be held il
this city in 1915, in celebration of th'
from all parts of the coast. The com
mercial bodies of a large number o
cities throughout the west have gon'
on record as favoring the choice of thi
exposition. The latest organization t,
adopt favorable resolutions in Califor
mia is the Tracy and West San Joaquin
board of trade. 1t gave the fair it
Endorsement in the following letter Il
the exposition officials:
The Tracy and West San Joaquin
board of trade wishes TO felicitate
you and your fellow citizens of San
Francisco over your purpose to eel
ebrate with a great worlds eX-
position in A D. 1915 the opening
of the Panama canal; for the mem
ory of man may recall nothing in
the line of human achievement out
of all the past which would COM
pare in the vastness of the import
ance of the possibilities with the
opening OF this great highway to
the travel and the commerce of
the wrold.
And while all the continents and
islands of the seas shall enoy the
advantages growing out of this
mighty work the Pacific coast and
San Francisco, It's metropolis, shall
reap untold benefits. Our crops
may then be put into the lap of
Europe and goods brought from
thence to us without the extra ex-
pense and dangers incident to
transportation around the Horn,
thus saving much to the peoples
wealth. Population directly from
wi
this highway in vast numbers and
will spread far over the bounds of
San Francisco and her sister cities
around the bay, making one great
aggregation compared with when
the population of any one of the
worlds largest cities will be small
in number. And flowing inward
immigration will supply abundant
help to the farming, fruit and min
ing interests of the Pacific states.
thus solving in a very satisfactory
manner one of our great economic
problems.
upon exhausting her resources in
the favoring of our metropolis, in
addition to giving it nearness to
the worlds great highway, will
make-of il a vast depot for exports
and imports, the one coming over
numerous transcontinental roads
from our eastern and interior
states, and consigned to far off
Asia, the other the freight of the
ships from the orient, to be distrib-
uted TO every part of our common
country. 1t will be the meeting
place of travellers and merchant
princes of all lands and it will be-
come the richest and most ,magnifi-
cent city any civilization has
known, the worlds most splendid
metropolis. Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, that this board will
welcome with pride and with
Thanksgiving the glorious future
the Panama canal will bring TO the
Pacific empire and its beautiful
metropolis, and
Resolved, that this board will
further in any way it can the sue
cess of your worlds exposition of
A D. 1915, the forerunner of our
great and glorious future, TO the
end that it may be the wonder of
the nations. as a commemorative in
a PRODUCTION of this world benefiting
enterprise, the Panama canal.
Done by order of the Tracy and
West San Joaquin board of trade.
JOSEPH s. WEST. Secretary.
W-tP. FRIEDRICH, President