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Show thing substantial back ol it and th' most substantial thing we have back of Southern California is the raat agricultural area of the western states. We should have a direct contact con-tact with these folks in the interest of a better understanding of our respective re-spective needs. i !The Livestock Situation A glance at our trade relations with other western states can be had by taking the receipt! of live stock coming to the Los Angeles market. The following figures show the amount of money paid to the different states indicated out ol a total of about $28,000,000, paid out for live stock supplies at the central market during the yea 1929. Utah $ 3,218,719.00 Arizona 1,780,976.00 Idaho 1,665,047.00 f - Nebraska 1,012,120.00 j Colorado 843,598.00 New Mexico 485,055.80 j Nevada 455,173.00 j Texas 362,025.00 Wyoming 263,470.00 j Montana 167,181.00 j Oregon 91,092.0u ! Practically all of these states !ehow a substantial increase for 1929 over the previous year. Undoubtedly the agriculturist is turning his attention more and more I to Southern California as the logical j outlet for his products, and why not? The distance to Los Angeles is sub stantially less from so much of the territory west of the Rocky Mountains, Mount-ains, than it is to any other large consuming section, that the market- . Ing problem for these states becomes I less expensive and these people who produce so much of what we consume must eventually find the same op-, op-, portunity for profit by buying from j us things that we produce, j No great metropolis ever grew up j "like Topsy". There must be some- |