THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



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to Los Angeles after a tour of Italy, France and other points on the 

 continent, a great colonization movement, with the fertile fruit and 

 grape lands of California as the objective point, will start from France 

 and Italv immediately 'after the opening of the Panama Canal. 



While touring through Europe, Mr. Barnham paid particular atten- 

 tion to the conditions surrounding the fruit and wine industry in 

 France and Italy, and learned that the middle class of fruit and wine 

 growers are looking forward to California as the promised land, where 

 all of their troubles will be over and where they will have, instead of a 

 paltry one or two acres of vineyard or orchard, a fruit or grape ranch 

 of fifty or several hundred acres. 



Valuable immigrants Coming. 



"One of the most significant factors pointing to a systematic estab- 

 lishment of Italian and French vineyard colonies in California," said 

 Dr. Barnham, "was my conversation with AA^illiam S. Dalliba, manager 

 of the Paris branch of the American Express Company, whom I met in 

 Paris. Mr. Dalliba, who is a personal friend of James Stillman, of 

 New York, told me of a conversation he had with Mr. Stillman a week 

 prior to our meeting. Mr. Stillman, who represents the Morgan-Harri- 

 man investment syndicate, had been in California for two months 

 incognito, and had been looking over the situation thoroughly with the 

 end in view of investment in lands. Mr. Stillman stated that he looked 

 forward to one of the greatest movements of the small vineyardists and 

 laborers of France and Italy in seeking lands in California that has 

 ever occurred. 



"With the completion of the canal there will be a water journey 

 possible from France or Italy to California, which is vastly cheaper 

 than the present transportation by ship and then by rail across 3,000 

 miles of continent. This will appeal to the worker in the vineyard. 

 The success of the Italian and French winemakers and growers in 

 California has reached the ears of their hard-working countrymen back ■ 

 home, and they are waiting and saving money against the time when the 

 great canal is opened, and they will be able to sail from their own home 

 direct to California. 



"These thrifty vineyardists and fruit growers must not be confused 

 with the ordinary immigrant who lands in New York and stays there. 

 They are sons of the soil, and are perhaps the most skilled farmers in 

 the world, for they are ably to wrest a living from an acre of ground for 

 several families. They watch the soil as a woman does her rising 

 bread. ' ' 



Such immigrants are very desirable to California, since they will not 

 remain in our cities, but will immediately hie themselves to the farm and 

 ranch lands, where they wall become producers of wealth. 



Advising the Stranger. 



It is to be hoped that by 1915 California will have secured a state 

 immigration bureau, not so much for the purpose of inducing people 



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