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deliver oranges, with respect to their time and service. One of our 

 communications says: "We have twenty-five Mogul engines just 

 received from the shops that we are prepared to put on our western 

 division to take care of your business." The carriers are particularly 

 interested in California business, and they realize that the success of 

 their business depends largely upon the prosperity of you growers, and 

 they are willing to do all in their power to assist you. There is no kind 

 of business in this State, or in any other country in the world, that 

 affords such a variety of avenues of prosperity as does the fruit industry 

 of California, and we are very glad indeed when we are able to rejoice 

 with you in your having had a prosperous season, and to us it is a 

 source of very serious regret when the season has not been prosperous. 

 All I can say is that this coming season we shall aim to do our share 

 toward giving you a service that will enable you to say, at the close of 

 the season, if it was not, perchance, as profitable as you had hoped, that 

 it was not the fault of the carriers. 



MR. STEPHENS. I move that a vote of thanks be extended to Mr. 

 Sproule for his attendance here to-day, and I wish to say that when 

 you see Mr. Sproule you see a friend of the fruit-growers of California. 

 I not only know he is a fruit-grower himself, but I know he has spent 

 much time in securing from Eastern lines promises that have been of 

 value to us. 



Motion carried. 



EEPOET OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE OLIVE PEOSPECT. 



By general N. P. CHIPMAN, of Red Bluff. 



GEN. N. P. CHIPMAN. Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: I 

 want to say with regard to this report, that when the subject came into 

 hand for preparation there were two views to be taken of the question, 

 or rather of the nature of the report. One was simply to make a sum- 

 mary of the findings of fact or the results without giving you the 

 evidence. In the other form of report we embraced the evidence. You 

 have had numerous communications from very high sources of results 

 of observations of high character and of great intelligence, but they 

 were merely the results and not the evidence; so it was concluded that 

 you should have the evidence in this report. For the purpose of obtain- 

 ing it I addressed, or caused to be addressed through the officers of the 

 State Board of Trade, communications to a large number of olive- 

 growers and manufacturers of olive oil and pickled olives, and this 

 report is the result of the responses to those inquiries. 



(In the preparation of this report letters were addressed to all the 

 principal olive-growers of the State, and replies received from most of 



