HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 12561
RFSO'•IJTION NO. 1256
A RESOLUTION OF TITE CITY COUNC iL OF THE CITY OF
AZUSA REQUESTING THE BOARD OF SUPFRVISORS OF LOS ANGELES
COUNTY TO TAKE SUCH STEPS AS ARE NECESSARY TO PREVENT
THE MARKETING OF FLUID 14ILK IN LOS ANGRT,RS, FROM NORTH
OF THE TEHACHAPI AND TO ENCOURAGE THE MARKETING OF
FLUID T:IILK FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IN SAID CITY.
WHEREAS, there is now established here, and in other
communities in Southern California, a large dairy industry
marketing milk in the City of Los Angeles, and,
"`HEREAS, dairy centers North of the Tehachapi are now
marketing milk in Los Angeles, and are seelring to enlarge
such trade in comnetition with and to the detriment of the
dairy industry of Southern California, where land and water
are higher priced and sanitary practices in milk production
are more particularly observed than in Central and Northern
California; and
''!HEREAS, the purchase by Los Aneeles consumers of Northern milk
is unjust and.unfair and detrimental to the best interest
of dairying communities in Southern California for the
following reasons:
The marketing of Northern milk in Los Angeles is likely
,to shut Southern milk out of such market, and thereby
destroy the great dais,.* industry which has been built
uo in this and other Southern California dairyin-_ cen-
ters, and will consequently greatly depreciate in
value the millions of dollars worth of pronerty now
used in and affected by such industry;
Proprietors of Southern California dairies will he
reduced in wealth and be compelled to seek other
vocations and investments;
Thousands of persons now employed in such dairies
or in other industries, depending upon such dairy
industires. will be thrown out of work snd deprived
of daily earnings upon which they now subsist;
The demand for hay and grains non, consumed in the
dairy industry will cease, and farmers no- supply-
ing the sane in immense quantities thereto will
need to find other markets at more distant points;
thus increasing the expense of handling, storing and
transportation, and-?ecreasing the farmers' profits;
and all other industries now furnishing sup^ dairies,
their owners or employees with supplies whatsoever
nature, either directly or indirectly, will be in-
juriously affected by the loss of trade and the de-
pletion of profits;
The great citrus industry of Southern California,
which now denends largely upon such dairies for nec-
essary dairy fertilizer, will be materially crippled
and compelled either to ship in dairy fertilizer
from more distant points or to use commercial ferti-
li-ers instead thereof, thereby either greatly in-
creasing the cost of producing fruit or decreasing
the price received for fruit: for the use of other
than dairy fertilizer in citrus proves results in
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coarser fruit and lower nrices therefor;
Money now paid Southern California producers for milk
will. go North of the Tehachapi, and be more largely
spent by recipients thereof in San Francisco and other
cities of Central and Northern California;
Consumers of milk in Los Angeles will lose the bene-
fits they nor; enioy of being, supplied by Southern
California v✓ith fluid milk of the highest grade,
produced under most sanitary conditions an' deliv-
ered in Los Angeles within a .few hours after extrac-
tion;
Communities in Southern California will be deprived
of the vast sums of cash now being monthly received
by them for milk, -wnich ,-ill reduce their incomes
and will affect every industry -ith which the dairy
business comes in contact, and will consequently
reduce the amnunts now being exp9nded in Los Angeles,
either directly or indirectly, because of the dairy
industry in Southern California;
Various industries in Los Angeles will be slowed down,
in the event that Los Angeles Consumers stop buying
milk from Southern California producers and thereby
cut off the return flow from such payments back into
the metropolis, to which it speedily returns:
The growth and development of this and all other
dairying centers in Southern California will be
retarded;
If the great dairy industry of Southern California
perishes for want of a market, the future prosperity
of Los AnEreles will be thereby affected, for Los
Angeles cannot, without detriment to herself. allow
the industries of her tributary communities to be
destroyed nor the moral and commercial support of
those communities to he lost to her.
THEREFOiiE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City
of Azusa that the City Cnunci.l of the City of Los Angeles and
the Board of supervisors of the Cnunty of Los Angeles be,
and they hereby are, recuested to take such steps as may be
necessary to prevent the marketing in Los Angeles of fluid
milk .from North of the Tehachapi and to encourage the marketing
of fluid milk from Southern California in said City.
BE IT FUiiTlT 13 RECOT,VED that a copir of this Resolution be
presented to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
ADO°TED AND APPROVED THIS 16th day of February, 1951.
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