most comer of the State and Nation, and pointed out that 

 from one end of the State to the other the work done by The 

 CaHfornia Promotion Committee for the benefit of CaUfornia 

 was known and appreciated. 



An address of welcome was extended by Dr. Edward Grove, 

 president of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce. He dwelt 

 upon the great work for the benefit of the State that was being 

 done by The California Promotion Committee in which the 

 people of San Diego, and, in fact, all parts of California are 

 deeply interested. He assured the delegates that the people 

 of San Diego welcomed them to their midst and he expressed 

 the wish that the hospitality extended would be of such a 

 nature that the delegates to the meeting would carry away 

 with them the warmest feelings for the beautiful city of the 

 South. And, he added, "If anything is left undone towards 

 your comfort, well-being and welcome, the fault lies only 

 in our inability to ascertain your wishes." 



Dr. Grove was followed by an address in response by Andrea 

 Sbarboro, who said in part: 



On behalf of the Counties Committee of the California Pro- 

 motion Committee, I thank you most heartily for your warm 

 welcome to San Diego. This is our sixth meeting and I am 

 pleased to say that from Portland, Oregon, and Eureka, Cali- 

 fornia, on the North, and Pasadena and now San Diego, on 

 the South, wherever we have visited, we have been accorded 

 the same kind reception as we now receive from the good peo- 

 ple of the Messina of California. 



The people know that our work is a labor of love, our end 

 being to develop the resources and populate our great State 

 from North to South and from East to West, and also our 

 sister states on the Pacific Coast, with people who can make 

 happy homes and become good citizens. 



Although to achieve this good work we leave our homes 

 and our business, these hearty greetings from the people all 

 over the State encourage and reward us for our efforts. 



It has been said that the man who causes two blades of 

 grass to grow where only one grew before is a public bene- 

 factor. It is our desire to have 500,000 car loads of oranges 

 grow per annum in the future to gladden the hearts of the 

 people all over the world with our golden fruit, where only 

 50,000 car loads have grown before and to increase the pres- 

 ent production of 50,000,000 gallons of our wines pe ran- 

 num to 500,000,000,000 gallons in the future, which will 

 permit the use of this non-intoxicant healthy beverage on the 

 table of every family in the United States. 



