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TWEXTY-NIXTH FRUIT-GROWERS' CONVENTION. 



raised by our committee. Our Eastern operations were carried on 

 entirely under the direction of the Promotion Committee. Representa- 

 tives traveled under the auspices of, and reported to, that committee. 



The State Board of Trade and other organizations were equally 

 courteous in offering to assist the committee in its enterprise. 



On February 3, 1903, we sent out four travelers to the Eastern State- 

 equipped with two stereopticons and complete outfits of slides descriptive 

 of California industries and points of interest. A large supply of 

 descriptive literature was also taken. Mr. George W. Pierce of Davis- 

 ville and Mr. George D. Lorenz of Sacramento, of this party, spent 

 thirty days in the States of Iowa, Illinois, and Nebraska lecturing and 

 distributing literature. The experience of these two gentlemen showed 

 us that the people of the States named felt a great interest in Califor- 

 nia. Ten lectures were given, with audiences ranging from 400 to 

 1,500 people. 



Messrs. F. W. and E. J. Crandall of San Jose visited the States of 

 Kansas, Nebraska, and Michigan, reporting the same interest among 

 the people in hearing of California. Mr. F. W. Crandall also spent a 

 month in England and on the continent of Europe. 



H. P. Stice and H. C. Swain of Red Bluff. Tehama County, left on 

 the 4th of March for a thirty days' trip to Ohio and Illinois. Thes»/ 

 gentlemen were not equipped with stereopticons, nor did they deliver 

 lectures, but were liberally supplied with literature, which they dis- 

 tributed in the agricultural districts of the States visited. 



On the 15th of April. Mr. R. C. Kells of Yuba City and Mr. W. H. 

 Murray of San Francisco left for the East as missionaries in our cause. 

 As the former travelers had confined their work to the Middle West, it 

 was deemed advisable to make some inquiry in the far Eastern district 

 of the United States. Mr. Kells was therefore directed to go to New 

 Orleans, and from there to Maryland. Delaware, and New Jersey, in 

 order to see what might be accomplished in securing farm help from 

 those States. He was confronted with unfavorable conditions for the 

 success of the enterprise. Fruit-growers and farmers in the Atlantic 

 States were found to be in need of farm help themselves. Mr. Kells 

 was accordingly advised to go to Illinois and Nebraska, where he dds- 

 tribiited litfraturf in the agricultural districts. 



Mr. W. H. Alurray's itinerary differed from that of the former trav- 

 elers, as he was directed to spend six months in visiting the country 

 districts of the States lying between the Mississippi River and the 

 Atlantic coast. Mr. Murray's past experience in journalism enabled 

 him to Secure much publicity for our enterprise in very many news- 

 papers of the Eastern States. wMch resulted in a large correspondence 

 from people contemplating a trip to California. 



Two members of the executive committee were the last to invade the 



