he lived and whatever his interests, for irrigation increased pro- 

 duction and made conditions better on the farms, and this pros- 

 perity was reflected throughout California. He paid a tribute to 

 the late Will S. Green, formerly president of the Sacramento Val- 

 ley Development Association, who had conceived a project for 

 the irrigation of the whole Sacramento Valley by the building of 

 a canal on the west side which woifld have been large enough for 

 transportation requirements. 



The program of the meeting having been completed, on motion 

 of Rufus P. Jennings, Chairman Sbarboro, with a rap of the 

 gavel, declared the seventh semi-annual meeting of the Counties 

 Committee of The California Promotion Committee adjourned, 

 the Counties Committee to meet for its eighth semi-annual meet- 

 ing at Fresno on December 14, 1907. 



The entertainment of the delegates had been carefully 

 arranged and an elaborate program provided. On the day of 

 the meeting a banquet was served in honor of the delegates by 

 the Ladies' Improvement Club, following which a reception and 

 dance was tendered at the club rooms of the Petaluma Lodge, 

 No. 901, B. P. O. E. Both functions were heartily enjoyed, and 

 the informal speeches of the delegates after the banquet expressed 

 their appreciation of the hospitality tendered. 



On the following day the delegates were taken for a drive 

 about Petaluma, being given an opportunity to visit the silk fac- 

 tories and the incubator farms, and were then conducted by elec- 

 tric cars to Sebastopol, where they were the guests at a luncheon 

 given by the Sebastopol and Gold Ridge Chamber of Commerce, 

 followed by a drive about Sebastopol, whence electric cars were 

 taken to Forestville, visiting the Green Valley cherry cannery and 

 Landscape View at Forestville. 



At Santa Rosa, visited in the afternoon, the party enjoyed a 

 visit to Luther Burbank's home, reconstruction in the city was 

 examined, and a drive taken to "Walnutmere" through the orchard 

 and hop yards. In the evening a banquet was given by the Santa 

 Rosa Chamber of Commerce in honor of the delegates, Mayor 

 John P. Overton, president of the North of Bay Counties Asso- 

 ciation, being toastmaster. 



The meeting and entertainment gave the delegates a lasting 

 impression of the hospitality of the people of Sonoma County, and 

 the trips throughout the valley furnished evidence in a vivid man- 

 ner of the resources and native wealth of the Imperial County. 



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