ment to the delegates fvirnished during the visits to those various 

 places. 



(Signed) Edwin Stearns of Alameda County, 

 L. J. Evans of Napa County, 

 Arthur G. Nason of San Diego County, 

 Geo. W. Pierce of Yolo County, 

 H. A. Greene of Monterey County, 



Committee on Resolutions. 



H. H. Whitmore, at the request of Rufus P. Jennings, read 

 a letter of greeting to the convention from J. W. Webb, secre- 

 tary of the Stanislaus Board of Trade. 



Other messages to the convention were as follows: 

 Cablegram from H. P. Wood, secretary of the Hawaiian Pro- 

 motion Committee, formerly secretary of San Diego Chamber 

 of Commerce: 



Honolulu, June 7, 1907. 

 Jennings, 



Petaliuna, California, 



Best wishes for successful convention. 

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

 California Promotion Committee: 



New York, N. Y., June 7, 1907. 

 Rufus P. Jennings, 



Care of Promotion Committee, 



Petaluma, California. 

 Greetings from New York and best wishes for successful 

 meeting. 



H. A. Greene of Monterey described the results he had in 

 planting tan oak trees, having some of his own planting eight 

 inches in diameter. He advised planting the acorns, seeds or 

 cuttings in tin cans, which could be then buried and which would 

 facilitate transplanting, preventing the roots from reaching out. 

 The tin can, he said, rotted away in course of time. Mr. Greene 

 stated, also, that he had planted redwood trees which were now 

 of a height of fifteen feet. 



Arthur R. Briggs, secretary of the California State Board of 

 Trade, was asked to speak, and said in part : 



This coming together of counties in convention — this bring- 

 ing together of people from different parts of the State with dif- 

 ferent interests — always does the people good. 



D. W. Coolidge, secretary of the Pasadena Board of Trade, 

 expressed his appreciation of the papers read at the meeting. He 

 said that in the southern part of the State another movement 



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