A neat booth with spacious counter was provided at a prominent and
convenient place in the building and well supplied with attractive
literature all the time, free to all comers. In addition to the State
book, a large edition of which was compiled and published at the
expense of the appropriation, and which, we desire to say here, was
as comprehensive a publication on California as was ever gotten out,
nearly every progressive county contributed to the supply, thus making
it possible to meet the eager demand that always exists for information
regarding this State. Altogether from first to last we estimate that
more than a car load of literature was handed out from our literature
booth or given to visitors by those on the floor, and yet no one was
ever asked to take a line who had not previously expressed a desire
for it. If you force literature on people much of it is thrown away
as soon as they are out of your sight. If put within convenient reach
people take what they want and no more, and what they want they keep.
No California literature was thrown away.
[Illustration: GENERAL VIEW, CALIFORNIA EXHIBIT, SEATTLE, 1909]