Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-15

Extensive preparations are being made by
the citizens of Riverside, San Bernardino
county, for holding citrus fair at that place,
commencing the 9th of March next and con-
tiuuing three days. A similar fair held at
the same place one year ago was fraught with
a great deal of good to the whole southern
section of the State. It not only gave the
people Of that section a better and more cor
&c idea of the resources of their section, but
the reports of the fair that were sent abroad
through the press and private correspondence
called general attention to that country as a
favorable locality for the production of citrus
and nearly all other varieties of fruits. The
exhibitions at the fair at that time were
mostly from the counties OF San Bernardino,
Los Angeles and San Diego, but as a
whole the exhibition was a magnificent one,
and did great credit to the people making it
and great good to the localities contributing
to it. No other State in the Union could
have made so full and so valuable an exhibi.
ton of semi.tropic fruits as was made one
wear ago at Riverside. At that fair were
also read many valuable papers on the special
and general subjects of tropical fruit-culture,
and the reading of these papers was followed
by practical suggestions and the statement OF
valuable experiences by those engaged in the
culture of the various fruits on exhibition.
These papers and discussions were published
in the local papers and the transactions of
the State Agricultural Society for last year,
and have gone forth to the world, and the
southern counties are receiving great benefits
from such publications in the way of large
additions to their population, and of largely
increasing investment of capital in lands and
citrus orchards. The fact that but so few
counties and localities in the State were rep
resented at the fair last year, gave to the out
side world very erroneous impression as to
the climate of the balance of the State-an
impression which the State can hardly afford
to allow longer to go uncOrrected. This i'm
preston is to the effect that outside of these
southern counties citrus fruits cannot be
raised in the State on account of climatic
conditions. This impression is most decidedly
erroneous, and not only erroneous but unfairly
damaging. The fact is that the best of oranges
are being raised in almost every county
in the State south of Trinity and Siskiyou;
not raised, it is true, in so great abundance
as they are in Los Angeles, San Bernardino
and San Diego, but in sufficient quantities to
show that the climatic conditions are not
lacking. Indeed Sacramento Yolo, Solanc,
Sonoma, Placer, Ell Dorado, Amador. Yuba
and all the San Joaquin valley counties are
better adapted to orange culture than are the
most favorable localities in Georgia, Florida
or Louisiana, and yet In the face OF this fact
the impression Is being carried abroad all
over the world by this citrus fair at River
side that the three southern counties embrace
the whole citrus belt of the State. 1t is
high time that this false impression
should be corrected. Certainly it should
not be allowed to be strengthened by
a repetition Of the causes that have
produced it from year to year. The cause
that is producing and that will strengthen
this erroneous impression is the citrus fair
at Riverside Let it be understood that we
have no quarrel with the people in the south
ern part of the State Tor holding these fairs
and attracting the attention of the world to
the many advantages which their section pre-
sents to the settler and cultvator and Or
chardists in it. On the contrary, we will
help them on in their grand and good enter
prise. We will help them to publish to the
world their grand trumphs in converting the
brown and apparently barren places into gar
dens and orchards and vineyards. We Will
help them to attract immigrants
"There where the orange blossoms along the way,
Making bridal of the fruIted year ;
There where rose blossoms drift from May to May,
And spread their odrous richness far and near
horn GDIH1 rFfaN i TrrIl
Because mans labor breaks the need of rain
There where he sweetly sleeps amid the lull
That comes from the rustlins OF the golden grain.
But while we will thus help to publish to
the world the fact that in Los Angeles, San
Bernardino and San Diego the orange and |
the lemon, the banana and the pine apple |
are almost as much at home as they are in |
the isles of the East or West Indies, we |
insist upon publishing alongside of these /
facts the additional truth that throughout !
the whole interior Of the State there are |
many and extensive sections almost if not |
quite as much entitled to be known as citrus /
belts as are any portions of these counties, |
and we now cal upon the people of the in
terror to prove that the position we take in
this connection is capable Of demon
stration. Let the citizens Of Sac.
ramento OF Marysville, of Chico, |
of Auburn, of Folsom, Of Lincoln, of Placer
and many other cities and towns we can
name, WHO have at this time orange trees in |
their yards groaning under the weight OF |
luscious golden fruit, save each a few |
samples of this fruit till the LIST of |
March next, and then pack these |
samples carefully and forward them, prop |
erly labeled with name of grower and name |
of place where grown. to Riverside, to be put |
on exhibition at the citrus fair to be opened /
lie e %boA W ao1I /
upon nurssrymen who are interested ia the /
introduction of citrus fruit-cuiture in the in
terror sections Of the State to interest them |
selves in this matter. Let them take pains to
gather these samples and have them exhibited |
and tested by the side Of the fruits of the |
south. Let oranges from Bidwell's bar, |
Butte county, be placed on plates side by side |
with the oranges from the National ranch, |
San Diego county; let oranges from Marys- /
vile Oe placed by the side of oranges grown !
in Riverside, ana oranges from the City of the |
Plains shown by the side of oranges from the |
City of the Angels. Suppose We are beaten |
in the exhibition; suppose the fruits OF the /
sunny south are decided to be larger and more /
delieately grained and favored than those Of
the rigorous north still we will have proven |
by the exhibition chat the citrus belt Of Cali. |
fornia is not confined to two or three or half |
a dozen counties, but extends all over the /
otaG5, L ne same newspaper reports ana /
the same official reports that show |
the fruit grown IN the one to have been on
exhibition viii show those from all the Other !
sections to have been there also. and the false /
and erroneous impressions to which we have /
alluded will be corrected wherever these re-
ports may be circulated. Let US then take |
hold with our southern people and enlarge |
the sphere of usefulness by enlargine the !
scope and patronage Of the Riverside Citrus !
Fair.
Wheat aud Interest.
There IS now a very large bulk Of wheat in
the various warehouses throughout tAe State |
waiting more favorable prices and more rea-
sonable frsights While most of this wheat
is nominally in the hands and ownership Of
the producers, large sums of money have
been borrowed on it by these producers, and
while they are waiting for better prices the
interest money is gradually, but surely and
constantly, adding to the cost of the grain.
Thus the farmers are paying out money all