Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-02-15
CERES AND POMONA.
CALIFORNIA; GRAIN AND FRUIT At
THE EXPOSITION.
A Canada Correspondents RapturOus De-
scription Of the Products Of the
Occident-Attrsctive Mineral
Display from Nevada
I"Garth,sr New Orleans Letter.l

Di5p1oy IrOn NoSSus.
["Garth's" New Orleans Letterl
Ceres went wild with rapture when she
met her Californian lover. In his arm was
the tawny strength of hills in his eyes the
tender light Of the westering sun. At his
feet the streams came chanting from the
Rockies in his voice rang the echoes Of great
solitudeS
Look at the corn towering twice your
height above you and the sorghum and the
straight young shoots of the black Turkish
fig sprung fourteen feet in one year without
irrigation. Also great clusters of Egyptian
corn fed to cattle and looking like nothing
SO much as dried everlastings; and long
slender shoots of ramie, out Of which paper
is made
"Any other wood you ma ke paper off"
"Oh, yes. This quaking aspen, bark ant
core, and of the fir-chiehy wrapping and
newspaper. It's a big industry AMI there's
money in it"
He picked up a bunch of dried herbs
"This," said he, "is alfalfa, or what you
would call lucerne. Where We irrigate We
get FIVE crops Of it q year. On my own
place at Santa Clara We have made cheese
every day of the year for five years, feeding
this to the cows In Santa Clara" contin-
ued the en- husiastic dweller there, I'VE have
!, 400 acres devoted to garden seed alone for
foreign markets. and in our remarkable eli.
mate they never discolor or shrink"
Here is an immense representative Of the
foundation of the beet sugar industry, weigh
ing eighty-fo pounds. A great big purple
bulbous beet The process takes but thirty
six hours, and the knobby vegetable yields
from 10 to IA per cent. Of sugar. thought
l shouldn't escape without encoun-
tering the inevitable pumpkin. Here he il,
yellow and abnormal as usual, ticket bear
ing witness to the fact that he comes of
seed planted in May and weighs just ISL
pounds. The potatoes are marvellous. For
winter diet the vegetarian Of California un-
earths potato and pickles a portion Of a
squash. Here is a monstrosity Of the latter
order. weighing 2a2 pounds Pyramids Of
vines from every county in California, bot
ties Of olives and of olive oil, made only
there in America, tempting boxes Of crys-
tallized fruit pomegranates and figs en-
balmed under glass. new and prominent
industry; jars upon jars Of honey, amber
and lucent
Greatly to the malediction Of your sundry
other peoples correspondents the exhibits
are arranged to the credit of the counties
Everywhere Is an embarras de richesse, but
there is no concentration, no system, no
focus. Dropping over the side Of one countys
display found a small, graceful branch that
seemed to be covered with dried hickory
nuts. 1t was the famous vegetable ivory;
the nuts were like bullets and the little
branch weighed as much as a5year-oh
child Nuts, nuts, nuts! Do you know that
most of your after-dinner exarciss with the
nut cracker is supplied to you by California;
Here, from one county, are ranged 100 va
rieties of almonds in boxes and branches
teeming in fruition. They don't "pick" nuts
in California, they shovel them up
The fruits are on exhibition In horticul-
tural hall, but abundant specimens in alco-
hol are there. Japanese plums as big q
apples, grape clusters that Bacchus would
stagger under, pears three and four pounds
in Weight, peaches, tomato cherries, neo-
tarines-alas! they were all il jars, and the
jars were sealed, as is, therefore, your cor
respondents eloquence. OF ono delicious
fruit may speak exIerimentally. 1t wasn't
in jar, and wouldn't "keep" under any
circumstances, even II it hadn't been there
Hear my justification. Itwas persimmon,
NooAeo iihe q rps 'oina'o anu 3aSUeo LAO
amprosia here Is tancnui erectaon IN
deed. A rlchly-vemed pavilion OF marble,
exqulsitely designed In many coiors and
decorated with clustering grapes and vines
and quaint devices A Spanlsh-lndian boy
In variegated garb presides over TINS charm
ing interior, welding huge leather IAN
IL Is oeautnui, IL IS elegant, II Is chaste' and
it is-soap! The man who made it made
-
naiI miliiun at tne Same ume. Every
tning Is soap-grapes' Pihars, anu an-e1-
cept the boy, whose acquaintance with tne
purifying article IS presumably limited
Cahfornia mas iorgotten tnat sne ever
mad mine, SAID Joaquin miller tne othef
day, speaking OF ner maniiold resources
Truly, this does not look ike IL Eold
creeping and turning about the quartzs In
oelcate designs OF leaves ana vines, natures
exquisite handlcrait-sliver 6ulion-but Tor
our dear oid motners mineral treasures let
US go 10 Nevada just glance at Calitor-
lorna $ downy blankets and lustrous silks
made by Chlnese labor, and We cross the
state line and stand In the realm OF the Com
STOCK. Inc richest goio and silver bearing
quartz Is the most unpretentious. That
hon ~, ragged lump In one corner OF ths
case As worth all OF lts SHINING neighoora
Gold IN nuggets, In quartz, IN grains, In
boxes, In bottles, In bags. NO silver grains.
SILVER corrodes, perlshes, mas not the endur-
ing Qualities OF the true metal, and Il never
found ground down by heaving rocks and
raging waves In shining specks amid the
Nalachite green and beautiful porpbvrv