Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-10-11
CALIFORNIA EXHIBITS AT AN EAST
ERN FAIR.

We present in another column this
morning an exceedingly interesting CON-
nlunication of a committee appointed at
the recent fair of the State of Illinois to
report upon the department of California
exhibits These exhibits, it will be OBJ.
served, we're entirely of psychological and
agricultural products. The great mass of
them came from Sacramento and Placer
counties, and among the exhibitors will be
noted the names of several of our business
men and prominent cultivators of the soil,
Butte, Tehama, Tulare, Fresno and Yolo
counties were also we'll represented in the
exhibits.
The exhibition was made under the SUI
perintendence of L N. Hoag, in charge of
the Chicago Immigration Commission,
maintained by the Central Pacific Rail-
road Company. The products were all
transported to the East at its own cost by
the company, and the exhibition made at
fits own charge, with a view of disseminat.
ing correct information at the East con-
eerniug California and her products. This
was done, of course, at no small cost for
handling, salaries, preservation, ETC., and
it is gratifying TO know that the corpora
ton Is moved TO make such efforts to
invite desirable immigration to the
State. OF course it is to its in.
terest to induce the influx of large new
population, the settling up Of vacant lands,
the extension of cur industries and the de.
velopment of our resources. But the
methods it has adopted are broader, more
liberal and philosophical than the merely
selfish interests of the company call for.
The reader will note in the report the
impression the exhibit made upon specta-
tors. Very evidently they were more
than astonished they have regarded the
stories Of our produets as largely fanciful
and greatly exaggerated, but here was the
proof present to their senses, that, as the
committee puts it, " the half had not been
told" They add such ordinations as
these: 1.-THE people of Illinois have
never before been treated to SO inviting
and tempting sight. The pre-
served fruits are simply delicious.
The exhibition has been one of the great
attractions of the Fair. 1t will
go far toward convincing our people that
California is indeed the cornucopia of the
world. We on this side of the continent
have heretofore hesitated about believing
over half we have been told about Cali
fornia. The tables on which
shis exhibition has been made have been
khronged early and late every day from the
beginning of the faiS snd all who have
had she good luck to see the exhibition
have been struck with wonder and aston
isment at the extraordinary size of the
vegetables and fruits and wonderful per.
lection of the grains. An amusing line of
the report is that referring to the display as
so tempting that it was found necessary to
guard it by number of STARRED police
with big clubs" This reference would
justify the conclusion that our friends in
Illinois have forgotten the mandates of
their cstechism, to keep the hands from
picking and stealing" while at the same
time it testifies to the choice character of
the fruits. We can very easily conceive
how the display of grapes. for instance,
though Of character exceedingly familiar
to us, must nave awakened the admiration
OF the people, and how the agents in charge
OF the exhibit must have been beset with
inquiries.
The exhibit was one evidently of great
value to this State, and the suggestions of
results likely to spring from this and
similar efforts to correctly inform the
people Of the East concerning California
and her products, are so numerous and ex-
tended as to warrant subsequent and dis
tinct consideration. The gentlemen who
furnished the company with the products
for the exhibition will observe that the
Illinois committee has given them full
credit, and while the company itself is IN
questionably grateful for the contributions,
the thought ia suggested that our people
msy well contioue to aid these immigration
schsnes by forwarding renewed and like