Our climatic conditions are unequalled, our industrial, 

 mineral and agricultural resources are as great as can be 

 found anywhere, and our entire county from the ocean to 

 the Colorado river is as yet but in its infancy. The sixty 

 thousand people pursuing the various occupations, indus- 

 tries and businesses are best demonstrating what can be 

 accomplished here. San Diego county with its 8,500 square 

 miles can support and employ five million people and have 

 room to spare, and by our continued development by adver- 

 tisement and with the assistance of the California Promotion 

 Committee we expect to attain that end. 



An illustrated lecture on the Lumber Industry of Cali- 

 fornia was also given by George D. Gray of San Fran- 

 cisco. 



Dr. Clarence E. Edwords, chief of Publicity of the Cali- 

 fornia Promotion Committee, delivered an illustrated lecture 

 on the subject of "California's Harbors." In his lecture 

 he brought out the community of interest of all parts of the 

 State saying: 



Every industry in the State'is dependent upon the shipping, 

 and there is one attribute of California that is common to 

 the entire commonwealth. This is the magnificent harbor 

 facilities which give opportunity to every industry in the 

 State to reach the markets of the world. California is par- 

 ticularly fortunate in its harbors, and were any of them 

 situated anywhere along the parallel coast of the Atlantic 

 it would be so fostered and developed by the state to which 

 it belonged that it would attract the commerce 'of the 

 world. 



George Kennan, the noted author, whose articles on dark- 

 est Russia attracted world-wide attention, also gave a short 

 talk. 



The entertainment of the delegates was conducted under 

 the auspices of the Committee on Arrangements, 'pjohn S. 

 Akerman, chairman, and the various sub-committees ap- 

 pointed by him. 



On Sunday the delegates were taken by special train to 

 La Jolla and the celebrated caves; returning lunch was en- 

 oyed at the Hotel Balboa at Pacific Beach. Thence the 

 delegates were conducted to San Diego and transferred by 

 an electric car to another special train, visiting in the after- 

 noon the Sweetwater Dam and Tia Juana and Old Mexico 

 across the border. 



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