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by the writer, the following being an extract from his 

 reply : — 



A campaign such as you wish to undertake should begin as 

 an educational movement in the form of lectures and demonstra- 

 tions. This can be done while the ground is being carefully covered 

 and points of attack marked. I recommend that at first a vigor- 

 ous campaign be made in some restricted, isolated area where 

 Anopheles mosquitoes and malaria have been extremely bad, in 

 order to demonstrate beyond question the practicability of the 

 plan. 



During January and early February, 1910, lectures 

 on "Mosquitoes and Malaria" were delivered at 

 Loomis, Penryn, Auburn, Newcastle, and Roseville, all 

 in Placer County, and on February 12, 1910, a per- 

 manent "anti-malaria-mosquito organization" was 

 effected in the office of the Penryn Fruit Company. 

 At that time about a dozen representative men 

 gathered, elected Mr. H. E. Butler of Penryn as the 

 permanent Chairman of the organization with W. E. 

 Eckles, Secretary, and J. R. Huffaker, Treasurer. 



To assume the responsibility for such an under- 

 taking is not a small matter in the face of adverse 

 criticism and the task of securing financial support. 

 Earlier in the history of this undertaking the work was 

 loudly denounced by certain boosters and certain 

 newspaper editors as being the wrong kind of adver- 

 tising. Although nearly all knew that malaria was 

 prevalent in a given district, these individuals cried 

 out that there was nothing of the kind nor ever had 



