Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-06
CALIFORNIA EXHIBIT
As it is Viewed by bipartisan Eyes ant
2 Disinteres.ed Press.


The New Orleans Tines Democrat o
March 9th speaks editorially concerning
the exhibit at the Worlds Exposition from
California, as follows:
1t is probable that the people, the pro
ducts and the material development of The
grand Golden State excite more interest IL
| the extreme South than i'll any other por-
| ton of this Republic. The Crescent City
| has made an earnest attempt TO acquire 8
| fair portion, at least, of the grain shipping
| traffic of that great Western cereal-produc
| ing region. The numerous stands of this
| ctv groan under a weight of exquisite
| California fruit, while every steamer thai
| leaves this port for the West India Islands
and for the extended coast of Contra
| America, carries among its cargo boxes o.
California apples, grapes and pears. This
| traffic which is now in its infancy, is grad
ualy increasing, and we venture to pre-
dict that the time is not far distant when
| the countries that bask under the benign
! influence of the Southern Cross will receive
| the greater portion of the temperate fruits
demanded by their markets, from Califor-
MIA - via " the Crescent City.
The California exhibit, at the Govern
ment building, is a complete study in itself
and requires several days TO examine ii
thoroughly. The Southern spectator can
not refrain from acknowledging that the
products of the progressive State are all OF
am exaggerated type. Its gold mines axe
still the richest that have as yet been dis
covered Oh the planet. Its fruits are the
largest and best favored produced any
where. Its peaches, pears and grapes, III
particular, possess a flavor that cannot be
excelled, While the vines of Alameda and
Los Angeles produce a wine that TODAY, in
the opinion of many, ranks equal to any
made on the famous soil of Champagne
the classic banks of the Rhine the sunny
mountain slopes of Italy. or the fertile
hillsides of Sicily.
The South boasts its extended regions
where favorable climate and surround
ings produce grand forests of huge expresses
whose giant branches are festooned with
the funeral Grapery of Southern moss, but
our largest trees are mere dwarfs in com
parison with huge California cedars which
grace the Humboldt region and the valley
of the Yosemite. 1t fact, everything.
whether fruits, cereals, vegetables, trees or
flowers, are of an exaggerated growth.
while an examination of the fora of the
State almost carries one back to the car
boniferous period. when the properties OF
the atmosphere were the most conducive to
the production Of the grand types OF
vegetation.
To the right OF the Commissioner head
quarters is situated the mineral display,
under charge OF Professor Hanks, of the
State meteorological Bureau. This, for va
riety and value If specimens. if not the
largest, IS PROBABLY one Of the most COM
plete precious metal-bcdring mineral eXhi-
bition collected. Great care has been
eyinccd in the selection made for the dis.
play; thus our Southern people who have
heard so much Of the vast mineral wealth
Of that sister State may, from an examina-
ton Of this department., form faint idea
of its actual value
Meanwhile the people of this section
claim, with pride, that Southern enterprise
and Southern energy was partly instru-
mental in developing the grand agricult-
ural, forest and mineral resources Of this
unique region, while the American people
who recollect that the Spanish Jesuit
fathers knew of the existence OF placer
gold mines. in different localities, and who,
RECALLED on the glorious grapes of Los An
geles in vain called the attention Of their
countrymen to the natural resources OF the
country, can justly boast that American
enterprise and energy alone has developed
its wonderful riches and has transformed
this vast Western wilderness into a bloom
ing garden.