THE most important meeting of the Counties Committee 

 of The California Promotion Committee was held in 

 San Diego on December fifteenth, Nineteen hundred 

 and six, in the ball room of the Hotel del Coronado, it being 

 the occasion of the sixth semi-annual gathering of represen- 

 tatives from all parts of the State. One of the noteworthy 

 features of the meeting was the fact that fifty-one of Cali- 

 fornia's fifty-seven counties were represented, whereas at 

 the fifth semi-annual meeting, held at Napa in the preceding 

 June, there were but forty-five counties represented, this 

 being the largest number up to that time. The theme 

 of the meeting. The Harbors of California, was well chosen, 

 and in itself attracted much attention to the meet- 

 ing. The subject was treated from a broad standpoint by 

 men prominent in development work in the State's history, 

 and the needs and proposed improvements for all the harbors, 

 from Eureka to San Diego, were fully and intelligently ex- 

 ploited, and a campaign inaugurated which will give an im- 

 petus to action on the part of State and nation in this branch 

 of commerce, and will insure to the future commerce of the 

 ports ample facilities for expansion and development. That 

 the harbors of California are a vital asset in its prosperity 

 is obvious to all, and the part they are to play in the future, 

 in the commerce not only of the State but of the whole nation, 

 is just becoming fully realized. The scheme outlined at the 

 meeting for the improvement of all the harbors of California 

 will be entered into and carried out by the Committee on 

 California Harbors of The California Promotion Committee. 

 It is felt that a long stride forward has been taken and that 

 no one line of action could be pursued more beneficial to 

 the State as a whole than the improvement of California's 

 harbors and the establishment of facilities for handling the 

 commerce, of constantly increasing volume, which is to enter 

 the havens of the State by the Western Sea in the years to 

 come. 



With a gavel presented to him at a similar gathering in 

 Eureka, Humboldt County, in the northern part of the State, 

 Andrea Sbarboro, chairman of the Counties Committee, called 

 to order the sixth semi-annual meeting in the southwestem- 



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