Lee C. Gates, a prominent lawyer of Los Angeles, spoke 

 on San Pedro harbor, and he urged that all California had to 

 do, judging from precedents established by improvements 

 of harbors on the Atlantic slope, was to apply to the govern- 

 ment for aid, impressing upon it the great needs of Cali- 

 fornia's harbors. He stated that in the past no aid was ob- 

 tained because the needs were not known and not reported 

 forcibly to the government. Mr. Gates made an interest- 

 ing statement in his assertion that if San Francisco had never 

 been discovered, the city would, under present conditions, 

 with the splendid harbor inviting the commerce of the world, 

 be built in ten years from the ground, so natural was it that 

 there should be a great city on the magnificent bay. 



C. M. Gidney, Secretary of the Santa Barbara Chamber of 

 Commerce, spoke on the subject of Santa Barbara Harbor 

 and in showing its needs and advantages said: 



Between the new government harbor at San Pedro and the 

 roadstead of Port Harford, a distance of more than two 

 hundred miles, but one place ofifers shelter from the north- 

 westerly gales — the roadstead of Santa Barbara. So ad- 

 mirably sheltered is this roadstead that only an exactly 

 southeast gale, something that rarely occurs, will create any 

 disturbance therein. To remedy this one defect, a break- 

 water would be necessary to intercept the southeast swell 

 during a gale from that quarter. 



C. O. Miller, of the firm of Turrill & Miller, official photo- 

 graphers of The California Promotion Committee, took two 

 views of the delegates in session. 



W. L. Ashe, chairman of the Committee on Good Roads, 

 appointed in accordance with a resolution adopted at the 

 Napa meeting of the Counties Committee in the preceding 

 June, was to have made his report at the close of the morn- 

 ing session, but he was unable to be present, and, at his 

 request, M. F. Tarpey, of Fresno, a member of the Committee, 

 was delegated to read the report. As the session had already 

 extended over the scheduled time for the noon recess, the 

 reading of the report was postponed by the chairman. 



At the opening of the afternoon session Mr. M. F. Tarpey, 

 of Fresno County, presented the report of the Committee on 

 Good Roads, signed by the members of the Committee, 

 W. L. Ashe of Sonoma County, chairman; C. C. Burr of 



