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the women and children of those foreign countries do the work. AVomen 

 and children here don't work in the fields as they do in Southern 

 Europe, and crops can't be grown as cheap. They can live there for a 

 few cents a day, eating black bread and cheese, and so can work for a 

 very small wage. Here their mode of living soon changes, and they 

 require more for their living expenses. There can be no comparison in 

 cost prices between our conditions here and those abroad. 



This raisin exchange of ours has been worked up very carefully by 

 writing it up in the newspapers, something as a political campaign is 

 conducted, full page advertisements appearing in the leading papers, 

 and everything being done to attract the attention of the people. We 

 have enlisted the aid of the best known men in the country, and have 

 put all possible means to work to organize both the California Raisin 

 Exchange and our million-dollar company. This last organization is to 

 employ the same methods that the general business man of big corpora- 

 tions would; that a firm of publishers M^OLild use in working up a big 

 sale of subscription books ; or that advertising men of newspapers would 

 in canvassing for advertising for their papers. We are working from a 

 practical business standpoint, not from the old sign-up association stand- 

 point. 



We are working to get this big million-dollar company thoroughly 

 organized and in working order before the great influx of immigrants 

 will come pouring into our State when the Panama Canal is opened in 

 1915 ; and when that class of people reaches here they can be brought 

 into the organization just as anybody else here is, by buying shares, as 

 in any stock company. 



We now have over six thousand raisin growers in this State — a large 

 industry. There is now about a hundred and fifty thousand acres of 

 raisin vineyards in the State. Take up your morning paper and turn 

 to the financial news column. You can find ciuotations on alfalfa, fruits 

 of all kinds, cotton, pork, and so on down the list ; but where is there any 

 mention of raisins? We need our own trade paper; we need to adver- 

 tise; we need to wake up and get a modern, up-to-date standing. We 

 must have uniform prices. 



Our raisin exchange is now starting on its second year of organizing 

 work. We now have 1,970 members enrolled, and the number is in- 

 creasing all the time. The idea was new a year ago, and at first it was 

 hard getting the growers to come in ; they knew all the old methods and 

 were tired, discouraged, and had no faith, but we have convinced them 

 that this is an absolutely new idea, different from the old ways. We 

 want to carry our list of members on up into the thousands, until we 

 have every grower in this State interested. It requires no signing up to 

 belong to this exchange, and only costs ten dollars to join. 



We must obtain reliable and accurate information concerning all 

 phases of the subject, number of acres of all kinds and varieties of 

 grapes and fruits, and this we are doing, and are getting reliable statis- 

 tics for the use of the growers. We now have maps of thirty townships, 



