Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-12
CALIFORNIA EXHIBIT.
What Is Said of the Golden State al
Louisville Exnnsifian

IN looking over the display of the pro-
duetions of California, one thing that sur
prises the visitor as much as anything else
IS the great progress that has been made in
the Goiden State in SO short time.
Thousands of people in all sections of our
broad country distinctly remember the
gold rush of early days The great West
was then considered by Eastern people as
the uttermost limit of Western progress. AS
IN night new field was opened Man.
KIND was electrified by the announcement
OF the discovery of gold at Suffers Mill,
near Coloma. This so-called discovery
lior gold had been known to exist in Cali
fornia for several decades before) came at
time when the young blood of a great
country was seeking new fields for the ex-
penditure OF its energy. The young and
vigorous from all sections braved hard
ships and dangers and swarmed to the new
III Dorado. The land which had been
sleeping under the rule of Spanish padres
ard Mexican priests awoke to the sound of
the miners pick in the canyons, gulches
and rayines of the Sierra Nevada. a new
HE was infused, everything was hustle;
men hurried thither, mined rapidly.
courted the Goddess of Fortune without
the ceremony of an introduction, and their
advances were in many cases well received.
Others soon tlreo of an occupation that was
laborous and ofttimes uncertain. These
followed the bent of their earlier training
and became merchants, farmers and stock
raisers.
Towns sprung up around the miners,
stores were erected, and the early store
keepers gathered the golden harvest sown
by the miners. 1t was an era of romance,
excitement, endeayor and achievement.
Thirty odd years witness a great change
in all but the rush of early days Cities
have sprung up at advantageous points
throughout the State; towns dot the hill
slopes and deck fertile valleys thrifty
farIn-houses are seen on every, hand;
square miles of golden grain are growing
where in the early days men said that
wheat would not thrive hillsides that the
miners thought too poor for aught but gold,
and hardly worth the mining at that, are
now covered with plentiful orchards and
extensive vineyards, where the empurpled
grape grows luscious beneath the slant
ing rays of the western sun.
Such has been the grand transformation
that Californians and the world have wit
nessed-out of the darkness of unproduct-
ability into the light of full fruition.
The exhibits from Placer county, in the
Southern Pacific display, show how inyalua-
BILE for fruit, and even for alfalfa and corn,
are the rich foothills which yielded so much
gnu LII Neii tsAN LIZ piQALs QiltS
shown in solution are of enormous size
and the same is characteristic of all the
fruit from this section. Here we see q
blackberry vine that grew fourteen feet in
one season. The samples of tree and vine
growths are equally interesting A large
number of photographs convey an idea of
the character of what is known as the foot
hills. These are the low lying ridges which
border the eastern line of CALIFORNIA; great
interior valley, rising ridge on ridge to con-
stantly increasing attitudes before they be-
come sufficiently elevated to be denomi-
mated mountains, and to form distinctive
parts of the majestic range known as Sierra
Nevada, which extends the entire length of
the State, having width in places of so
miles and possessing attitudes in their AL
pine Businesses of Il, 600 feet
From Ell Dorado county, in which gold
was discovered in 1S4S, instead of the pre-
cious metals We see samples of luxurious
fruit and grain that has grown fat on fertile
soil. Two bundles of oats are particularly
each is the growth from sin
gle seed, and 406 stalks. each with full
heads, constitute one of these marvellous
examples Of one prodigally productive
seed.
The exhibits of Nevada county resemble
those of Placer and Ell Dorado. Here we
Also see the grains and fruits in profusion,
and, as in the other displays, samples of
raisins, dried fruits and wines are shown
which are made from the products of the
orchards and vineyards of these counties
A collection of grasses and wheat, which
were grown directly over the principal
quartz mines of Nevada county, show that
in this section all bounteous nature pro-
vides on the surface of the soil to produce
the finest grains and fruits, and beneath, in
the bosom of solid rock, the gold that
men covet
The exhibit has been rendered more in
teresting by Felix Gillet,. of Nevada CITY.
who has sent what is called cocooning
shelf and ladders, as well as an interesting
chart in relation to silk culture, and also
specimens of the leaves of different yarie-
ties of the mulberry tree.
Mr.. Gillet has done much for California
in increasing the knowledge and extending
the industry of silk-raising.. Some fine
of wine from this gentleman show
that he is not devoting ell his energies to
one industry.
From the counties of Amador and Gala
veras the samples are principally fruits
preserved in solution. The same remarks
apply to these as to the fruits of the other
counties mentioned.
We next come to the table containing the
productions of Fresno county Here is
very fine exhibit of different varieties of
raisins, prepared by Miss NJ. f. Austin,
who went to Fresno and located in the
" Central California Colony when the
settlements in that section of
the State began. Miss. A. had been
prominent school teacher in San Francisco,
and her health had given way under the
strain of the schoolroom. Hers had been
the experience of many women in Califor-
w h
for living. Her beautiful tree-surrounded
home and thriving vineyard attest her sue
cess. There are large variety of different
grains from Fresno county, as well as fruits
preserved in solution. Among the samples
of grain in sheaf, one is particularly inter
esting 1t is a sample of oats, which shows
two crops grown in one season, without re-
ceiying water, either natural or by irriga-
ton, from the time the first crop was a few
inches above the ground.
From Tulare county there is large ex-
hibit of fruit preserved in solution, and the
size and beauty of the specimens are par
noticeable The fertility of the
soil isfshown by the grain as well as the
fruit. Here we see samples of canary seed
the long stocks of the grass and the oval
heads are very pretty. The ex-
hibits of Stanislaus and MERGED counties
are wholly of grain-large, plump, beau
tiful white wheat, principally of the
Australian and Chile varieties From Mer-
ced county we also see a sample of very fine
cotton.
Kern county is represented by bales of
excellent cotton, raised on the ranch of
Haggin & Co., near Bakersfield. Besides
the ginned cotton we see cotton seed and
cotton that has not been ginned.
SAGACIoUs CAT.-The Dixon Tribune is
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