PROCEEDINGS OF TWENTY-SIXTH FRUIT-GROWERS' CONVENTION. 93 



AFTEEJl^OOISr SESSIOjI^-THIED DAT. 



Thursday, December 5, 1901. 

 At 2 o'clock the Convention reassembled. President Cooper in the 

 chair. 



EEPOET OF THE COMMITTEE ON PEESIDENT'S ADDEESS. 



The Committee on President's Address submitted the following report: 



San Feaxcisco, December 5, 1901. 



To the State Fruit-Groirers' Convention: 



Gentlemen : "We, your committee to whom was referred the annual address of Presi- 

 dent Cooper, have had the address under consideration, and commend its careful perusal 

 to the fruit-growers of California. 



We especially emphasize the suggestions regarding the necessity of securing an 

 appropriation from the next Legislature for securing parasites for insect pests, for 

 revising the present horticultural quarantine laws of the State, and for pure food legis- 

 lation, and would recommend that these matters be referred to the State Board of 

 Horticulture for action. 



President Cooper's reference to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition is timely, and we 

 would offer the following resolutions : 



Whereas, Preparations are being made for a World's Exposition, to be held in the 

 city of St. Louis in 1903; and 



Wheeeas. The preliminary arrangements and financial backing give promise that 

 the said exposition will be one of the greatest and grandest in the world's history; and 



Wheeeas, Past experience has demonstrated that under wise, economical, and 

 experienced management participation by California in national and international 

 expositions has proven profitable to the State, affording the most effective means of 

 presenting onr great resources and unequaled advantages to the inquiring world ; 

 therefore, be it 



Resolved, That it is the sense of the fruit-growers of California, in convention assembled 

 in San Francisco, December 5, 1901, that California should be adequately represented 

 at the said St. Louis, or the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and we earnestly invoke the 

 united aid of the counties and of the State, and of all enterprising men to this end. 



We would suggest the appointment of the following committee to carry out this 

 purpose: General X. P. Chipman, Eed Bluff, chairman: F. X. Woods, San Jose; H. 

 Weinstock. Sacramento; A. H. Xaftzger, Los Angeles; George P. Hall, San Diego; 

 Frank Williams, Los Angeles; Senator S. C. Smith, Bakersfield; A. E. Briggs, Fresno; 

 James A. Barr, Stockton. 



The preservation of forests has received attention at the hands of the President of 

 this association in his address, and we would suggest the adoption of the following 

 resolution : 



Resolved, That our members in Congress be reqitested to present an A.ct, and labor for 

 its adoption, setting aside from settlement for homes all mountain lands unoccupied in 

 the State of California, and restricting the devastation caused by prospecting for 

 minerals and mining purposes. 



