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in California carry their advertising, either on the Tokey proposition or 

 the eucalyptus. I think something definite should be said there. I know 

 you have one paragraph, but taken in connection with the Associated 

 Press dispatches. I don't think the convention has stated it in an intel- 

 ligent manner. The people have got to be brought here. We have got 

 the valleys in this State that are going to be settled either by Japs or 

 Chinamen or Slavonians or Americans, and while all races are fellow 

 beings we want Americans, and it is a great work, a sacred work, and I 

 think the paragraph, together with the general attitude, just makes us 

 carping critics about what I deem to be the noblest profession next to 

 growing fruits, and I do think that that resolution is a very sweeping 

 proposition, has no allusion to the legitimate work in that line which 

 has been going on and always has got to go on, and I am going to work 

 against it, although I am not a bit opposed to its general tone. 



MR. DORE. I am not pleased with the resolution as read. It indi- 

 cates that the report of these soil experts when published shall be a 

 guide for newcomers. There is hardly a section of land, perhaps hardly 

 80 acres, that would bear any resemblance throughout the entire tract 

 where the survey was taken. In my own place of 100 acres there are 

 all sorts of soil and many kinds of hardpan within reasonable distance. 

 To take a sample and sell a farm on that sample would not pan out. and 

 I believe the same situation prevails throughout the State. There are 

 tracts in the Sacramento Valley and Kings County where it might 

 average, but generally it will not. 



MR. STEPHENS. I heartily endorse what Mr. Dore has said. There 

 are many localities where you go 50 feet and you find altogether a 

 different character of land, and you will find in many instances seven or 

 eight different kinds of soil on a hundred acres, and unless the expert 

 bores into the ground on almost every 50 feet you can't tell what it is, 

 except it be an alluvial deposit, like a river bottom, and in many 

 instances the value of the land for productive purposes varies materi- 

 ally in a short distance. I think the resolutions are all right. We 

 don't want to deal in personalities, but it will be a warning in general. 

 It will have a tendency to put people on the lookout and that they them- 

 selves should be the investigators to ascertain whether this or that piece 

 of land offered for sale is worth the price asked. I don't believe, under 

 the circumstances, in citing any particular interest, any particular 

 locality or any particular colonization organization, because, as Mr. 

 Dore says, the lands vary so materially in such a short space. Take the 

 hardpan. It may be within eight inches of the surface here and 50 feet 

 away it may be within ten feet of the surface. 



MR. HARTRANFT. I would like that we vote that resolution down 

 and then vote that our Chairman appoint a committee of three or seven 

 men who will bear the brunt of making the good name of California, 

 who will investigate the general publicity schemes that are going on 

 about lands and have in their power to call a meeting, and directing the 

 attention of the postal authorities, without taking the dangers and risk 

 of direct publicity. That will be work. 



MR. JUDD. The Government of the United States has agents all 

 over the State of California, and I presume other states, making these 

 soil surveys. In the Pajaro Valley and the surrounding country I think 

 Mr. Mackey worked something like two seasons making those surveys. 



