The San Francisco call., 1913-09-27
Canal VIII Bring Populationi
States Wealth Will Give
Commercial Life
By w. D. FRNNIMoRE

San Francisco is the finest summer
resort in the world, but the trouble
is that the people OF the east and
elsewhere do not know II. June,
July and August should be our bus
lest months. for our city should be
crowded then with people here not
only from the interior OF the state,
but from as far east as Kansas. Me-
braska and other points In the
east, where the heat is extreme at
that time OF year. All San Francis
cans who leave the city during the
summer should make the facts known,
for people elsewhere do not realize
that such wonderful mellow winters
can be followed by comfortable sum
mers. The bay district has a climate
peculiarly its own, not equaled any
where else on the globe.
But not only is 1t a place pleasant
to live in. but on account OF climatic
conditions 1t is possible to do more
work here in a given time than any
where else. We get greater results
from our mechanics than Is done any
where in the east, and ! am told this
Is true in every other line OF manu-
facture. Therefore the higher wage
paid here is Offset by increased pro-
duction.
WHAT SUPPORTS THIS CITY
Many OF our people do not know
what supports this city. 1t Is really
nothing more than vast office build
ing, a clearing house to take care of
the business of the whole state. In
fact, all of the western country is
tributary to 1t. When the canal opens
and the population begins to flow in,
we will have more business to attend
to and consequently more building
and activity than ever.
But even II we do not get all of the
population I'm San Francisco some Of
us might want, that does not matter
so long as the population is out on
the land, for that is where our real
benefit comes from
And the population will come. just
as it used to flow in years ago at
Castle Garden tn New York. Those
Immigrants settled in the cities along
the seaboard, and few got very far
west, but when they can come on
shipboard straight through tho canal
to San Francisco without any trans
fer and for practically only IS to 81
more per head than 1t would cost
them to land at New York, we viii
get the desirable kind of immigrants
to develop our soil and make the
country prosperous.
FRUIT RAISING COUNTRY
For a long time to come the state
will be essentially fruit raising
country. just as IT is now. but there
Ii vast development yet to come along
that line When we have the Panama
canal open to use we can ship fruit
straight into London and other Euro
mean points We don't need to fear
the competition OF fruit from around
the Mediterranean, for we can win
out over II on the sole ground OF
quality. something in which they can
not compete with us.
Some think that all the oranges of
which I speak are raised down beyond
Los Angeles. They are not In
fact. there are thousands and thou
sands OF acres north of Tehachapi of
the very highest quality of oranges,
grape fruit and lemons, and thar Q
will be thousands more. Many do
not know that IL ripens four to six
weeks earlier than in the south, and
consequently there is never any dan
ger Of losing 1t by frost for prac-
ficnily the entire crop Is harvested
In November and December before the
first real frosts come in January.
We can't expect to ship much OF
our manufactured products to the
eastern part OF the United States, and
Ia fact we do not need this market,
for across the Pacific from us there
are some 500, 100000 people waiting
for us to supply them with goods.
I believe that within the lifetime
OF a great many OF us living hero now
San Francisco will become the third
city In the United States, and In time
1t should be the second.