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Show ipwcrmlW ' Undoubtedly the agriculturist is turning his attention more and more to Southern California as the logical outlet for his products, and why not ? The distance, to Los Angeles is substantially sub-stantially less from so much of the territory west of the Rocky Mountains than it is to any other large consuming consum-ing section, that the marketing problem prob-lem for these states becomes less expensive ex-pensive and these people who produce so much of what 'we consume must eventually find the same opportunity for profit by buying from us things that we produce. No great metropolis ever grew up "like Topsy." There must be something some-thing back of it and the most substan-ital substan-ital thing we have back of Southern California is the vast agricultural area of the western states. We should have a direct contact with these folks in the interest of a better understanding understand-ing of our respective needs. j A glance at our trade relations with other western states csvn be had by taking the receipts of live stock coming com-ing to the Los Angeles market. The following figures show the amount of money paid to the differtmt states indicated in-dicated out of a total of about $28,-000,000 $28,-000,000 paid out for live stock sup-.-Sies at the central maifcet during the year 1929: Utah $3,218,719.00 Arizona 1,7:80,976.00 Idaho 1,655,047.00 Nebraska 1,0 12,120.00 Colorado 8(13,598.00 New Mexico 48'5,055.80 Nevada 45 5,173.00 Texas 36,025.00 Wyoming 263,470.00 Mon'-ana 167,181.00 Oregon 91,092.00 Practically all of these stat es show a substantial increase for 13 29. over tin previous year. |