8 PROCEEDINGS OF THIRTY-THIRD FRUIT-GROWERS ' CONVENTION. 



During your stay, while visiting our city, you will notice the white- 

 washed stumps of what were once beautiful orange trees, and you will, 

 no doubt, appreciate the sacrifice which the property-holders of this city 

 made for the fruit interests of this State. Yuba County has a live, 

 wide-awake Horticultural Commission, and one of its keen-eyed com- 

 missioners discovered the white fly and warned the people of the city 

 that the pest was a menace to the fruit industry of the State. The people 

 backed up the commission, and it resulted in cutting down and defoli- 

 ating in the vicinity of eight hundred trees, at an expense of $4,500 to 

 the people of this city. 



We appreciate very much the compliment this Convention has paid 

 our city, and I trust the results of your labors will benefit your organi- 

 zation, and also that you will enjoy every moment of your visit to our 

 city. I thank you. (Applause.) 



THE CHAIRMAN. " I am sure we appreciate the Mayor's remarks, 

 and Governor Gillett will now further that appreciation in an address 

 to us. (Applause.) 



ADDRESS BY GOVERNOR J. N. GILLETT. 



Fellow Citizens: It is a pleasure for me to be with you opening this 

 Convention. I have been expecting to make a trip into this section of 

 the country for some time, but have been rather busy, and this is the 

 first opportunity I have had, and this only for a short time. I came, 

 not only to be present with you for a short time to-day, but also to take 

 a trip down the river to see what improvements might be made by the 

 State to save this city and the surrounding country from the dangers 

 that almost annually threaten it by reason of flood waters. 



As was said by the Mayor, the fruit industry of this State is one of 

 the great industries— in fact, the greatest— and as time rolls on and our 

 population increases it will continue to grow greater until it will be one 

 of the great interests of the world. It is a business that requires a 

 great deal of study and a' great deal of thought and a great deal of pro- 

 tection, and it is just such conventions as this that will bring about the 

 results which are necessary to keep this great industry fully alive and 

 to have it accomplish that which we all hope for it. 



I noticed the stumps as I came into Marysville. That was the very 

 first thing I looked for. I remember when the word first came to me 

 that the white fly had been discovered in Marysville, and appreciated 

 how dangerous it would be if that fly should spread, and I was pleased 

 to know the willingness with which the people of Marysville took down 

 their ornamental trees and destroyed their grounds— and it was almost 

 like a man destroying his household idols, and that for the purpose of 



