Commerce, and former secretary of the San Diego Chamber 

 of Commerce: 



"Best wishes for successful session. Do not forget the 

 harbor of Hawaii. Aloha." 



From Colvin B. Brown, manager of the Eastern Bureau of 

 The California Promotion Committee, in New York, and 

 former secretary of the Stockton Chamber of Commerce and 

 of the San Joaquin Valley Commercial Association: 



"Freezing temperature here. Crowd about bulletin board 

 reads that San Diego temperature is fifty-eight and that big 

 convention of California Promotion Committee is being held 

 there today. Eastern Bureau sends congratulations and 

 hopes great good will accrue to State from San Diego meet- 

 ing." 



William E. Smythe, of the Advisory Committee of The 

 California Promotion Committee, delivered an address on the 

 "Commerce of the Pacific Ocean." He deplored the lack of 

 enterprise in commerce of the United States as compared 

 with that of the Japanese, mentioning the fact that the Japan- 

 ese had just concluded a new treaty with Chile, a field that 

 the United States should cover, and that dried fruit, honey, 

 wines and other items would be exported; products in which 

 California excels. Mr. Smythe asserted that the trade of the 

 United States was not large and was not growing at a satis- 

 factory rate of progress. "What is the matter with the com- 

 merce of the Pacific?" he continued. "What is the matter 

 with the harbors of California? What is the matter with 

 the people?" 



L. E. Blochman, secretary of the Santa Maria Chamber 

 of Commerce, spoke on the necessity of improving Port Har- 

 ford, in the interests of the oil industry of California. He 

 stated that three oil companies, the Union, -Graciosa, and 

 Associated, would send twenty million barrels of oil to Japan, 

 at the rate of two million barrels a year. He showed that 

 most of the oil from the Coalinga and Kern fields was piped 

 to Port Harford and shipped by water, there being no rail- 

 road facilities adequate for the transportation. He stated 

 that there were three pipe lines and nine incorporated com- 

 panies handling the oil production. 



Hugh Hogan, chairman of the Harbor Committee of 



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