had been inaugurated under the initiation of the Pasadena Board 

 of Trade, which contemplated a connected system of good roads 

 for California. Three million dollar bonds, he said, had been 

 issued for macadamized roads on a vote of sixteen to one in 

 favor of the issue, and other cities in that part of the State were 

 getting in line, notably Los Angeles, through the efforts of the 

 Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Coolidge stated a good 

 roads association would be formed and three commissioners 

 appointed. San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino and Santa 

 Barbara Counties, Mr. Coolidge explained, were taking up the 

 matter actively. 



C. E. Humbert, president of the Cloverdale Chamber of Com- 

 merce, extended an invitation to the delegates to visit his com- 

 munity and inspect the citrus groves, which, though small, he 

 stated, showed the ability of the northern part of the State to 

 cultivate those commodities successfully. A delegate from Santa 

 Rosa expressed the hope that all would make the trip to that 

 city on the following day. 



Rufus P. Jennings suggested that the occasion was a good 

 opportunity for the delegates to get some information about the 

 work of the North of Bay Counties Association, which he con- 

 sidered one of the best district organizations in the State, work- 

 ing as it did with representatives in various parts of the State, 

 and he asked that Francis Hope, its special representative, be 

 called on for a few words. 



Mr. Hope explained that stereopticon lectures had been given 

 throughout the Pacific Coast, and that in five months' time 

 fourteen thousand people had attended the lectures, resulting in 

 much advertising to the five counties — Marin, Sonoma, Mendo- 

 cino, Napa and Lake — represented, and in sending people to 

 inspect the counties with a view to locating. 



Wilber Walker, secretary of the Oakland Merchants' Ex- 

 change, who had been one of Alameda County's conunissioners to 

 the St. Louis Exposition, congratulated the north of bay coun- 

 ties on the progress they were making as evidenced by their cam- 

 paigns of publicity. 



John H. Hartog, secretary of the Colusa County Chamber of 

 Commerce, spoke briefly on the benefits of irrigation in his 

 county. 



George W. Pierce of Yolo County, representing the Sacra- 

 mento Valley Development Association, laid emphasis on the 

 fact that irrigation benefited every citizen of the State, wherever 



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