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PART 11-PAGES 9 TO 16.
THEY ALL WANT IT BADLY.
People of Riverside Desire
a New County.
They Are Weary of Present
Galling Chains.
The Argument Which Is Made for
County Division.
Ban Bernardino, no It Ia Stated, Falls to
Enow the Interests of the Kiver
side Orauge Growers Any
Just Consideration.
Riverside, Cal. Jan. 28.—1f the peo
ple comprised a c romuuity of
7500 human beings were ever united,
harmonious and energetic for one cer
tain thing, I would like very much to
have the place located, so that I could
visit it and behold the population. I
never have heard or known of such
being the caee until I came here to
Riverside. They are peculiar people,
these Riversiders. They know what
they want, ask for it, and when they do
ask tbey generally all ask together,
At present every man, woman and
child in Riverside, or in the eurrounr
ing territory within a certain radius,
wants tbe legislature to create the new
county of Riverside and define its boun
daries. If there is a solitary soul in
Riverside who doeß not want tbe new
county created be or ehe has failed to
show him or herself,
NOT SURPRISING.
Really, though, this ia not to be won
dered at, for it ia apparent to any one
who studies the situation that the ter
ritory included within the northwestern
part of Ban Diego ctunty and the south
western corner of Kan Bernardino
county is justly entitled to a separate
county organization.
It will be seen by the map which ib
printed on this page what the present
lines of the two counties of San D mo
and San Bernardino are, and what the
lines of the proposed new county of
Riverside are.
WHY THEY WANT IT.
Now, the people of northern San
Diego county are desirous of having the
i,unity lines revised in some way and at
Truce. They are ieolated from the south
ern portion of the county by the I'alo
m'-.r mountain, w ich it iB difficult for
any railroad to penetrate. This makes
the county seat 150 to 175 milea distant.
It is exceedingly inconvenient and ex
rensive for any one transacting business
et tbe county seat.
riverside's reasons.
The people of Riverside wish division
.or a multiplicity of reasons which they
piece mat rney cannot Work in Har
mony with San Bernardino; that they
are treated unjustly and discriminated
against by the ring at the present county
seat; that their assessment is unjust;
that they are never given recognition by
the present combine of four on the
board of BUpervißors ; that they pay the
lion's share of taxeß over any commu
nity in the county and get the minimum
quota of benefitß; that if a new county
1b created no hardship will be worked
the other communities in tbe old San
Bernardino, and the beet interests of
Riverside and other sections will be ad
vanced.
Certainly in point of numerical force
these reasons are sufficient, and they
are also logically strong.
BAN BERNARDINO'S DESIRES.
Nevertheless San Bernardino people
do not want Riverside to leave, and they
are clearly demonstrating that fact by
gome active work they are doing to de
feat the Riverside county bill at Sacra
mento. The reason San Berdoon don't
want Riverside'to leave is because River
side has an assessed valuation of $0,000,
--000 and pays an annual county tax of
$101,511.86. This money is spent about
all in San Bernardino, and but very tew
dollars ever work their way back to Riv
erside. Is it to be wondered that San
Berdoon iB so anxious to keep Riverside
within the present county whether or
no?
TRIED BEFORE.
This question of county division has
been discussed and debated for the last
four years, and not until now did it
look as though it had reached a point
where it would be settled. Two years
ago the bill came near getting through
the legislature and becoming a law, but
it was overlooked at the last minute and
"died a bornin'."
The following are a few facts in rela
tion to the proposed new county:
Area, OtiOO square miles; assessed val
uation, $13,000,000; population, 12,000;
class of county. 29th or 30th ; salary libt
per annum, $19,500; rate of taxation to
pay salaries, 15 cts. per $100.
FULLY STATED.
A Presentation of the Klvergide Case
Made by Attorney Mclntyre.
To the legislature the strongest possi
ble case is being made. At a meeting
of the committee on counties and county
boundaries, held a few daya ago at Sac
ramento, the following statement in fa
vor of Riverside connty was made by VV.
J. Mclntyre:
The rapid advance in population and
wealth during the laet decade of the
great state of Oalifornia has directed
public attention to each of the large
counties in the eouthern part of the
Etate, notably to San Bernardino county,
whose area exceeds that of many of the
states north of the Potomac river. The
breaking up, in the future, of these great
counties of the state into smaller politi
cal divisions was at the time of their
formation considered inevitable when a
progressive development justified legis
lative action.
Imperial counties, when the adjective
is applied to great geographical areas,
must pass away. Their continued exist
ence in the rapid development of the
state at large would suggest stagnation
and lack of growth. The history of this,
as well as of other states, shows that the
small counties are the beet governed,
tbe most economically administered and
afford better protection for life and prop
erty.
In passing upon the bill creating
THE HERALD.
PROPOSED NEW COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE.
Riverside county, the legislature will
take into consideration the necessities
of the people within the bonndariee of
the proposed new division, the justice of
the measure and the capacity of the peo
ple within the county to exercise these
newly acquired political lights with
utility to themselves bb well as to the
state at large. Ttie new county must
present to the legislature a suffl •ient ar
ray of facts to justify the partition. The
happiness of a people does not always
depend upon the enactment of laws, but
on the equity and expediency of tbe
laws that are enacted. A county is a
political union, and it ia one of the du
ties of the creating power to have euch a
union composed of harmonious ele
ments, in order that the tranquillity and
happiness of the people may bo con
seived.
A learned writer upon the best form
of government uttered a truism when
he eaid: "That but little else is re
quired to carry a people to the highest
degree of opulence from the lowest bar
barism, but peace, eaey taxes and a
tolerable administration of justice, all
the rest being brouuLt about by the nat
ural course of things." The absence of
these rtquisites to good government,
coupled with diverse and hostile inter
ests, have produced this agitation for
reparation in San Bernardino county,
which running through a long chain of
connections has at length affected the
whole body of the people seesing eep
aration, until the tension is so great and
the relations so strained as to preclude
co-operation upon any mutter of a pub
lic character. An enforced union of
such hostile and opposing elements as
San Bernardino and R verside would be
a political crime and disastrous to every
interest in both sections of the county.
The opposition of the San Bernard- o
people to the division of the county is
natural, aB it wishes to draw from the
Riverside section a largo revenue for
courthouse building and general taxa
tion. The desire of Riverside to avail
itself of the accorded to it by the
constitution and escape a burdensome
and oppressive tyranny, is also natural.
Riv. rvide doeß not claim superority
over auy sect.on of the state. Our peo
ple are no better aud not worse than thoae
of other sections. What she has accom
plished hua been done by industry and
frugality.
Let us be charitable, however, for pas
aiou and policy may sometimes force
men to act a part that their judgment
and better nature condemn. I do not
wish to cast, aspersions upon any section
of the state. We Bhould, as good citi
z"ns, be loynl to every Bection and fall
into line in the march of industrial de
velopment, and resent an injury to one
ac an ii jury to all.
I desire to call attention to some ol
the tyrannical acts of the board ol
supervisors in tbe imposition of bur
doua aud unjust discrimination?
against eecuons of the county not con
tiguous to San Beruardiuo city :
In June, 181)1, the board of supervise
ore called an election to vote $350,001
bonds for a new courthouse, which wat
voted ilnwn jat-AV,p«w?lly uumioa uuigiut
of San Bernardino city and its environs
the board of supervisors, after the prop
osition was voted down, expeudec
nearly $100,000 for a new courthouse.
In order to meet the expenditure tht
taxation waß increased for state and
county from $1.00 to $2 on tho $100,
The people of Sau Bernardino county,
not included in the radius of the
county Beat, were incensed at this ac
tion of the board, and many protests
were published against this unneces
sary expenditure. In June, 1892, tc
pacify the people, they again submitted
tbe proposition to the eleetori to vott
bonds to run a period of 20 years for the
sum of $250,000, for the purpose oi con
structing and completing a county court
house in the city of San Bernardino,
(nearly $100,000 having already been
expended in a summary manner by the
board for this purpose).
The people again voted against the
b and by a largo majority of the
et., is of the whole country. In defi
ance of public sentiment and a majority
far greater than the law rertuired to def
eat the measure, the board proceeded
to carry on the construction of thecourt
honse, and are now erecting and paying
for the same by a levy for that purpose,
and it ia admitted by the builders that
half a million dollars will be expended
before the ettucture is completed.
I now propose to show the discrimina
tion in the aeseFsmenta between the
school district of the city of San Ber
nardino and the school district of River
side. In 1891 the increased valuation
in the whole county wae 20 per cent
over that of 1890, being an increase of
20 per cent over the previous year. Iv
the city school district of San Bernar
dino, which comprises now and did
then the entire city, the increase wbb 10
percent, while the increased assess
ment in the school district of Riverside
was 50 per cent. A tabulated statement
shows an increase in the assessment of
nearly every section of the county that
voted againet bonds; but the percentage
of increase in Riverside io 25 per cent
over any o'her Bection of the couutv and
40 per cent over that of the city oi" San
Bernardino. This discrimination
againet Riverside and the territory trib
utary to it is so apparent and marked
that it cannot be considered an accident,
but a skillfully prepartd and premedi
tated scheme to force the burden of the
construction of the courthouee and gen
eral taxation upon Riverside and other
sections.
In the territory of San Bernardino
city before referred to the assessed val
uation of property in 18S9 was $4,487,
--585. The uaseßeed valuation in 1892
was $4,008 439, a reduction in three
yearß of over $400,000. In 1881, in the
present limits of the city of .San Bernar
dino, the valuation was $4,267,439; in
1892 it waa $4,008,439, being a decrease
Irom the previous year of $259 000, while
the decreeee of the entire county was
but $151,841, n decrease in San Bernar
dino city of $108 000 more than the en
tire county, while within the school
districts whose limits are mainly within
the corporate limitß of the city of Riv
erside there haß been an increase of
$119,891.
The figures are compiled from the
county recorda and may be verified by
an examination of the books of the
county auditor. Notwithstanding the
rapid advance in population and wealth
of tbe city ot San Bernardino, the con
struction of magnificent blocks and a
magnificent water system, paved streets
and the expenditure upon public build
ings alone within tbe last three years of
nearly $200,000, the asnceeed valuation
of property in that city is over $400,000
lees than it was three years ago, while
LOS ANGELES: SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29, 1893.
the increase in the entire connty has
been nearly $3,500,000.
Tbe estimated valuation for taxation
of the territory embraced in the pro
posed county of Riverside is about $13
--000,000. A statement of values in each
county of the state for 1892, as made by
the etate comptroller, shows that in the
counties having a value of from $10,000,
--000 to $15,000,000 the rate of taxation
for state and county purposes averages
from $1.15 to $1.50 on $100, while the
taxa' ion upon counties from $3,000,000
to $5,000,000 is from $1 55 to $2.50 per
$100; most all Bhowing a rate of about
$2 per $100.
1 will now Bhow the area of San Ber
nardino and San Diego counties, the
number of square miles taken from each
county, the number left in each county
after the formation of Riverside county,
and the number of Equare miles in the
proposed Riverside county. These fig
ures are substantially correct and are
verified.
Square miles.
Area of San Ecrnardlno county.. 21,000
Arei to be taken by piopoeed
Riverside county 840
Area remaining in San Bernar
dino county .. 20,160
Area ol Sau Diego county 14.580
Area to be taken by Riverside
connty 6 418
Area remaining in ►»» Diego
county 8,130
Total number of square miles in
Riverside county 7,25-1
The following table shows the popu
lation in the two old counties, the pop
ulation taken from each by the proposed
new county, the population remaining
in each after the formation of the new
county, and the total population of pro
posed Riverside county, all of which
figures are verified as taken from the
United States census report of 1890.
(See petitioners' exhibit B.)
Population of tan Bernardino county
(1890. 25.497
Popuia ion to be taken by Riverside
county 7,514
Population remaining In San Bernar
dino couu'y 17,083
Populatiou of Sau Diego county 11890). 34,987
Popu atiou to be taken by Rivers'de
county . .. 4,056
Population remaining in San Diego
county 30,331
Population of proposed Eiverslde
county 12,170
The assessed valuation of property in
both of the old counties, the valuation
taken from each of the counties by the
proposed Riverside county, and the
total assessed valuation of property
within the boundaries of tbe proposed
Riverside county, as shown by the fol
lowing table. (See petitioners' exhibit
C, which is also verified.)
Assessed valuation of Ban Bernar
dino eouuty. ...$26,7,5,514
To be taken by Riverside county, .
about 8500,000
Remaining in San Bernardino
county 813,235,514
As*e*»eJ valuation of Sau Diego
couniy $29,1(12,808
To be taken by Riverside county.. 3,849,111
Kern mine in San Diego connty $25,313,694
Tctai a*ses-ed valuation of propei
ly within the boundaries of pro
posed Kivtrside county $12,349,141
This measure haß been agitated for
two years, ite merits and nece;sities
fully diecUßsed; men who opposed the
bill before the legislature of 1891 are its
advocates today. lis justice is admit
ted. Its enemies have failed to make a
case against the justice of the measure.
Time alone can never heal the differ
ences between these opposing sections,
but division will.
It is an irrepressible conflict that will
never end until this bill becomes a law;
until thie question ie settled the band of
enterprise in that region will be stayed;
capital, shrinking from excessive taxa
tion for unnecessary public expendi
tures, will remain locked, and industrial
development will be retarded.
Tbe discontent is not groundless.
When this bill becomes a law, those
hostile camps will strike their tents, tbe
white banner of peace will flutter in the
breeze, a better and brighter era will
dawn upon both sections; San Bernar
dino will recognize it ac a manifest dee
tiny and join hands with Riverside in a
fignt against the stubborn forces of na
ture that will be forced to yield to their
co-operation and enterprise. As allies
tbey well succeed. The cause of conten-
Hon once removed, tranquillity will be re
stored, and tbe passions and prejudices
of the hour will pass away and be for
gotten forever.
Thiß able presentation of Attorney
Mclntyre's really coverß the whole
ground of county division. It was list
ened to very closely at Sacramento, and
will nndonbtedly have great weight.
Of the different communities in the
proposed new county all are practically
united in favor of Riverside except the
people of Perriß, who want a San Jacinto
county built, with the county seat at
Perris.
By all means, though, give ua county
division. "We want it, we need it, we
deserve it, and we are going to have it."
This is what the Riversidera say, and
they are very strongly backed up, too.
C. J. R.
TEN COMMUNITIES.
They Are All Included Within the Pro
posed New County.
The Herald in thiß issue goes exten
sively into a review of tbe country and
territory which comprises the proposed
new county of Riverside. The commu
nities of South Riverside, San Jacinto,
Elsinore, Perriß, Banning, Arlington,
linnet and Winchester are all carefully
written np. Their resources are pre
sented. The showing made is certainly
strong enough to demonstrate tbe fact
that the teriitory which it ia proposed
to set aside is beyond any doubt Buffi
ciently developed to sustain a separate
organization without an unjust burden
being put upon the taxpayers. Read
what ie printed about the different parts
of tbe proposed new county.
A GREAT INDUSTRY.
TBE PACKING AND SHIPPING OF
FRUIT AT RIVBRSIDK.
An Interesting Review of This Impor
tant Matter—The Owner of an Or
ange Grove an Independent
Citizen—Full Details.
It may be safely said that the fruit
packing and shipping business of River
side is the most beneficial industy of
that enterprising region. A brief allu
sion to the industry In a general way
will convince tbe most exacting of its
importance.
Southern California—Riverside in
particular—haß long been noted through
out the United States for the production
ot fine fruits—the orange especially.
While there is more attention paid the
culture of citrus fruits, the growing of
deciduous fruita is not in the least de
preciated.
The conservative statisticians would
place the total acreage set to oranges at
not less than 8000; vines, 3000; decidu
ous frnits, not less than 4000. The total
income from the fruit industry in River
side was last year over a million of dol
lars. Orange growing as a business is
increasing at a remarkably rapid rate.
To show the immensity of the industry
a brief reference to the number of the
I packing and shipping establishments
will suffice.
Within the city proper there are at
least 12 packing houses, while at Arling
ton station, on the Banta Fe railway,
there are several other large fruit-ship
ping firms established. The latter
named place is within the corporate
limits of Riverside, and tbe establish
ments there are, in the main, owned
nnd controlled by certain of the com
panies that operate in the city. They
are thus located simply as a matter of
convenience, as a large portion of the
fruit-bearing die,.rict lies between
Riverside and Arlington, a distance of
eight miles. A large number of the
older groves border the famous Magnolia
avenue.
Riverside will, before the close of the
season of 1892 93, ship no less than 2000
carloads of oranges. Some shippers
PART 11-PAGES 9 TO 16.
even acivar.ee that figure, believing tbe
total output will reach 2400 carloads.
Estimating each car ac carrying 300
boxes, plainly shows that tbe orange
shipments for the present season will
amount to over 700,000 boxes. A little
mental calculation confronts us with the
fact that this large amount of fruit, even
at ordinary prices, will net Riverside a
million dollars.
These estimates are made for the
present season, for the entire crop ie
now in sight and ready for marketing.
Tbe fruit is in excellent condition. In
fact, the quality and quantity of the fruit
this season are superior to any previous
crop.
Tbe crop is now engaging the attention
of the packers and shippers, and the dif
ferences that have heretofore separated
the packers and growers have been so
amicably arranged that there is antici
pated no fnrther collision of interests.
Since the severe frost in Florida a few
weeks ago, and the severe injury to the
crop of that state, it is reasonable to
suppose that California will supply the
larger trade in oranges the coming
season. Florida dispatches indicate that
one-fourth tbe crop there is totally de
stroyed. This gives greater encourage
ment to California fruit producers, who
now Bee an excellent prospect for fancy
prices for their golden fruit.
The recent combines, namely, the
Orange Growers' and Packers' Protec
tive association and the Riverside Fruit
Exchange, through which organization
the entire croo of Riverside will be
fihipped, are already showing the prac
ticability of »uch combinatione for the
maintenance of prices.
The man who ownß au orange grove
in Southern California—especially in
Riverside—should have no fears as fsr as
this world's goods are concerned. The
ownership would certainly give a hand
somo per cent on the investment, be
sides furnishing one of the most pleas
ing, fascinating and "fashionable" oc
cupations in which a man could engage
in this sun-kissed land. Tbe exercise
of orange culture is just enough to give
color to the cheek, vitality to the body,
and euch a close mingling with nature
as to give perfect rest to the mind. Cer
tainly, those who follow the culture of
fruits in Sonthern California must be
charmed with the ever-unfolding beau
ties of the surroundings.
FRANK B. DEVINE.
Largest Frult-Shlpper nnd Riverside's
Only Commission Merchant.
The packing, shipping and commis
sion house of F. B Devine, on Pachap
pa avenue and Eighth streets, River
side, is the largest in the valley. Mr.
Devine is really the only commission
merchant of that city, having been es
tablished there for years. His packing
house covers more ground than any
other two similar concerns in the city.
This season Mr. Devine will ahip
not lees than 400 carloads of
oranges. He is the packer for
. the Pachappa Ofßnge Growers' associa
tion and the Riverside Raisin associa
tion. He ships yearly large quantities
of dried fruits and honey, these being
handled after the orange and raisin sea
sons have passed. Mr. Devine has the
reputation of being one of the largest
fruit shippers and commission men in
Southern California, and does an im
mense business. His experience in
these lines is large, he being one of the
first to establieh packing houses in
Riverside.
Not from a Financial Standpoint
"I do not recommend Chamberlain's
Cough remedy from a financial stand
point, for we have others in atock on
which we make a larger profit," says
Al. Maggini, a prominent druggist of
Braddock, Perm., "but because many of
our customers have Bpoken of it in the
highest praise. We sell more of it than of
any similar preparation we have in the
store." For sale by C. F. Heinzeman,
222 N. Main, druggist.
The Best and Cheapest
Tailoring dont at 164 South Spring sireet.
Alterations, dyeing and cleaning; misfit c oth
lng bought: repairing neatly done.
THE MERRY WAR IS ON
How County Line Fighti
Progress at Sacramento.
Riverside Scheme Far in Ad
vance of Others.
A Noble Array of Missionaries Labor*
In? at the Capital.
The Legislative Vineyard Being Care
fully Cultivated In tbe Intoreats of
the New Connty — Prospects
Bright for Its Creation.
Special correspondence of ihe Herald.
Hack amen ro, Jan. 28 —And now the
eecond week of tbe county division fight
iB over with and nothing is as yet finally
Bettled. When I Bay that the second
week of the great etruggie is over I mean
the second week dating from the open
ing of the Riverside county fight before
the senate committee on county bound
aries.
Results thus far that have been ac
compli filled are nil save and accept a few
cheerful little complimentary remarks
that gentlemen make about other gentle
men to the effect that this man is a liar
or that man is a coward. Then some
one will vary the monotony by occa
sionally threatening to "smash Mr. So
and-So in the jaw if he does not cease."
Ac no one has as yet been smashed the
supposition is that Mr. So-and-So haa
ceased.
Really, though, of all the county di
vision schemes that have been pre
sented to the legislature the one that
has attracted tbe most attention and
which really has the strongest backing
is the Riverside county scheme.
Tbe Riverside folks have a strong
lobby here on the ground and not an
opportunity is overlooked to put in a
good word for the new county. The ar
gument they use is familiar to all of you
and it is unnecessary to repeat it.
If I were a prophet I would say that
there is but one county division bill
that will be passed at this session, and
that one is the Riverside bill.
In the first place, the Riversiders
have a strong case. In the second place,
they have a perfect organization, while
the opposition to the bill is scattered
and somewhat disorganized. These
conditions are decidedly favorable to tbe
enactment of the law which will create
the new county.
The story that has been put in circu
lation that the Riverside people are dis
pensing a sack here in Sacramento has
been vigorously denied. If one is being
spent it ie being so cleverly and diplo
matically put out that it is impossible
to locate it. Thus far no evidences of
boodle are visible, and the story about
the mysterious sack that is going to be
turned loose later is regarded purely as
a creation of the brain of the opposi
tion.
! Two years ago Riverside made a hard
fight and came very near getting a
county then. It was only by a scratch
that Riverside county was defeated at
that time. The fight that was made in
1891 is going to assist this year in ac
complishing the desired end.
Among the Riverside citizens who are
here looking after the bill ia George
Frost. Mr. Frost is an old man with
silver locks and a philanthropic coun
tenance. He has a bland smile that is
very winning with the average legis
lator and which is daily used. Mr.
Frost, as a lobbyist, is a decidt d success,
his age being no barrier to bis activity.
Then there is Frank Miller. Frank
haß been here for about three weeks,
and it is understood that he has not
taken off his clothes since he arrived at
the Golden Eeagle one cold dismal day
in early January. Mr. Miller, it is Baid,
never sleeps when he is engaged work
ing to accomplish an object. He is an
enthusiastic Riverside county man and
he ie doing a power of good work among
the legislators.
General Daviß, who, when be is at
Rivereide, runs the popular Rowell, ii
also among the Riverside missionaries
who are laboring in this field. General
Davis is a Democrat, and was a most en
thusiastic White man. He talketh
among tl.e throng for Riverside county
by day and by night.
Among the throng who are enlisted in
behalf of Riverside county is the next
United States minister plenipotentiary
and envoy extra rd i nary to Guatemala;
Maj.-Gen. Harry W. Patton is editor of
the Banning Herald, political advisor,
successful lobbyist and genial gentle
man. Major Patton is anxious to get
the town of Banning all into one county.
It is now divided, the county line run
ning through the middle of the town.
The major is desirous of having Banning
all included within the new county of
Riverside.
Dr. Lyman Gregory of San Jacinto ie
neglecting his medical practice long
enough to come up and talk Riverside
county. A. 11. Naftzger of Riverside was
here laßt week engaged in the noble
work, but he has left. He is a hustler,
and no mistake.
The Sen Bernardino end of the fight
has been managed largely by everybody
who happened to be on the ground from
that place. There was a young man
named Atherton here for a while. He
talked loud, and accomplished little.
Then there was T. J. Fording, ex-dis
trict attorney, and Judge Bledsoe. The
judge has rather given np the fight, and
gone home. All of the San Bernardino
contingent are for San Jacinto county,
but my opinion is that it will never be.
I will keep you posted aB things pro
gress. Va.
YEARLY ON THE INCREASE.
The Germain Fruit Company'! Business
Going Ahead.
Tbe Germain Fruit company of Los
Angeles is one of the largest firms of its
kind on the Pacific slope. It ie really
a mammoth institution, having packing
houses at Santa Ana, Riverside, Rivera
and Sonoma. Eugene Germain is pres
ident, treasurer and general manager.
Tbe general offices are at the corner of
Commercial and Los Angeleß streets.
The business of the company has in
creased yearly under the wise general
managementof President Germain. This
year it will be greater than ever. The
San Francisco office of the company is
at 116 California street, and Isadora
Fleischman iB general manager.
