Los Angeles Daily Herald

A Special Southern California Exhibit.

There will be a meeting at the Chamber of Commerce today of delegates from various points in Southern California to take into consideration the proposition to send a special car with samples of the products of this section of the State for exhibition throughout the Atlantic States. Los Angeles county was well represented in the car sent out this year by the State Board of Trade, and we are already committed to take a large space in the two beautiful cars that have recently been especially built by the Southern Pacific Railway Company to send on in a short time. This second expedition of California on Wheels will also go East under the auspices of the State Board of Trade, and will doubtless be a very fine affair, far superior in attractiveness to the one sent out last, which was a very pronounced success, and which traveled over 15,000 miles of rail and was visited by seven hundred thousand persons. There is no doubt that great attention was attracted to this section of the State by the very fine exhibit we had on that car; nor can there be any question that the new exhibition to be sent out shortly by the State Board will create an even greater interest amongst Easterners about California than was the case with the much less attractive one last sent. But there is no doubt that a special exhibition on wheels for Southern California would accomplish more for our section than one representing the whole State. The only difficulty we can see in the way of sending out a special exhibit on wheels for Southern California alone is the money consideration. There has been some very wild talk as to the cost of such an exhibition. Some have placed it as low as $350 a month. If it can be carried out at $1,000 per month, we should not consider that an exorbitant sum. Three or four capable persons must accompany it, and these must be salaried. The wheelage and other expenses will amount to a handsome sum, and when all the incidental outlay of literature, etc., is provided for, the monthly expense account could hardly be held much within the highest figure named. It would be well, before embarking into this experiment, to see if it is possible to secure this sum. If it can, all right; then we should by all means send out a special exhibit for our section. This is the vital question, and the only material one to be solved by the conference today. Let us be sure that the requisite money will be forthcoming, and the rest is all plain sailing. But in the meantime Los Angeles cannot afford to withdraw from her place in the State Board exhibit. We are committed to that. It will prove of great advantage to us, and this advantage we should not forego under any circumstances.