Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-12

subscription. There should be public
/ spirit enough in the State to accomplish
this, but at, the same time we very much
fear it viii not be developed in time BY the
proposed methods OF action. Just a year
ago we called attention to this matter and
the vital Interest California has at the
New Orleans Worlds Fair, and for six
months urged It upon public attention.
Every State in the Union will be repre-
sented there except, possibly, California
and Nevada, for the outlook now IS
anything but favorable for them. Moth
ing has been done here except to confer on
Colonel Andrews an empty honor, and
commit to his keeping veritable and-very
large-sized elephant, and the issuance of an
| invitation by the State Board OF Agricult-
ure to the Oranges where they exist to
secure county exhibits How far this lat
ter plan will be successful is matter of
grave doubt. We have very little faith in
it. The business of everybody is the con-
fcern of no one.
= The plan we suggested last spring is fea-
sible, and may yet be put upon It's legs in
time to save the situation That was to
have the State Board of Agriculture, or
some such competent authority, aided by
the various Boards of Trade and Cham
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out of which a definite plan may be
evolved. At the same time a county ex-
hibit should be secured from every county
in the State, and this can only be done by
organizations in each county for that pur-
pose The State Board can easily select
philosophical citizens in each county to
put the ball in motion locally. Where the
county is wholly agricultural, the Oranges
will be excellent agencies, but there are
other counties where the society cannot do
the work or has few, if any, representa-
tiveS, Let Colonel Andrews address the
State Board of Agriculture, the Boards of
| Trade in San Francisco, Sacramento, Stock
ton Los Angeles and other places, and ask
them to send representatives to meet him
at a very early day in council, and agree
upon 4 plan Of action We believe such
an initial effort may be made to result in
success, but that the circular issuing"
idea of the perplexed Commissioner will
leave him in a worse plight than he finds
himself at present.
From December, 1884, to May, 1885,
| vast numbers of people will visit New Or
leans, coming from every section of our
own country and from the chief countries
of Europe. They will be people who have
some means, who are Of inquiring minds
and oboervant habits. They will note
what they see critically, and be in precise
ly that receptive frame of mind to give at
tention to all We may say to them of Cali
fornia, and the proofs of her fertility and
resources that we may present to their
sight. We should have at that fair very
large quantity of printed information to
distribute, and it should not consist of de-
scriptions of big trees and lofty water
falls We need at that fair to be repre-
sented agriculturally by cabinet of our
grains, exhibits of our dried fruits our raj
sins, figs, prunes, olives, oils, oranges, nuts
and such produce as is in season by cab
met Of our minerals; by cabinet of our
wines and brandies; by samples of our
woods and soils; by specimens Of other
products peculiar to our latitude; by maps
and land plats; by schedules of prices of
! lands; by statistics of our production,
statements Of our capabilities, the induce
ments for immigrants, the promise for the
man of some means, good health and an am
bitiOn to win We should exhibit samples
of our textile fabrics, our wool and silk, our
fish, iron, lead, copper; in short, something
of all cur chief products, that the whole
may represent the truth that no State in
the Union has such varied capabilities or
offers such practical inducements for a
large industrial population; and if all this
costs Us $4,000 and some local effort, it
will be the best investment that this people
has yet made.
California has been a backward State
the least progressive, in a comparative
sense at least, of the 5iSterhood, in the mat
ter of pushing her claims and commanding
the population that is her due. She cannot
longer stand still She must enter the lists
and advance or retrograde This matter of
the New Orleans fair is an opportunity of
which We should avail We were practi
cally unrepresented at the Centennial Ex-
hibition, an unknown quantity at the Paris
Exposition, and if We are counted out at
the New Orleans fair We will have only
ourselves to blame