Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-24
RESOURCES OF THE COUNTIES.
Now Is the Time to Prepare for the Com
ing State Fair.

ing State Fair.
Attention has already been called through
the columns of the RECORD UNION to the
necessity of early action upon the part of
the several counties of the State, in arrang-
ing for making county exhibits at the COM
ing State Fair. These exhibits are among
the most interesting and profitable that are
made, and do more towards informing Wis
itors from abroad of our great and I'M
known resources than can be done in auy
other way. Each county also thus shows,
/ not IN general way, The resources of the
State, but specifically the products of the
individual county and locality Every
county should take immediate steps for
thus showing its wealth and little-known
/ CAPABILITIES. Some of the counties have
already moved in the matter, and The
others should at once do the same. The
Supervisors of Placer county have an
pointed a committee of three-who were
originally selected by the local inlmicra
ton society-to take entire charge of the
matter, and collect and make the exhibit.
The committee has entered vigorously
upon preparations, and will make a most
commendable display for that section, with
q determination TO carry off the largest of
the many prizes offered bv the State Agri
cultural Board for county exhibits. The
following letter is from a member of said
committee and was published in the Placer
Herald:
WORK IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
Ed. Herald In your report of the Immi
grafton Society meeting al Colfax last week
you make some valuable suggestions con-
cernihg the exhibit of Placer county pro
auctions this year. Properly managed no
county in the State can make an equal ex-
hibit. Many counties NAV exhibit decidu
GUS fruits, other citrus fruits, and some
both. Many can furnish gold and granite
some marble, iron, chrome, asbestos pot
terry, lumber, and various other interesting
subjects, but venture to say none can fur
nish such varied collection and of such
UNIFORM excellence as we can, and we pro-
pose to help strengthen our argument by
aiding to gather such a display as none Of
our various exhibitions heretofore have
shown. For this purpose organization is
deslra6ie-nav, necessary. With that end
III view, our society named a committee of
three to select the proper persons in each
section OF the county TO take charge of the
gathering of the material They were
anxious to name representatives from such
important places as Lincoln, Sheridan.
Dutch Flat and the various other points Of
Importance III the county, but as thew were
not with US, and the duties recurring an
extra canvass by each member in his re-
spective district, and as some might decline
to serve, It was decided to select this COM
mlttee OF three and impose on them the
duty OF selecting suitable representatives in
each place
The 5000 won by our exhibit at the State
taIr was rendered as nucleus to provide
a fund for the expenses of the present fair,
9nd the county generously appropriated
SiO0 more, which viii be a great help to-
wards paving the necessary expenses. But
1t is with the stric'esJ economy that il can
be made sufficient. For that purpose. we
suggest that each member OF not only our
committee, but the committee Of the whole.
give the necessary time cratuitously for
the good of the county, which means his
own benefit ana that OF the whole section
This will leave sufficient to pay freights
and necessary outlay We shall be happv
to correspond with any person who feels
sufficient interest IN the subject to suggest
anything that may add 70 the useful or at
tractlve features of our exhibit We ask
all residents OF the county who may chance
10 see this, to Interest themselves and dis
cuss the subject with their neighbors, and
thus obtain as wide aud fail an exhibit as
possible. The benefit of such a display
cannot be called in question-the results
CXiiltlt
from this county In San Francisco attracted
unusual attention. Many, in fact most. of
our people are unconscious of our possibil-
tiles. Few know we have slate fit for use
III schools, etc, fine -ocbre choice marble.
to say nothing of the large number of par
tally known products
The citrus fair was an Illustration of how
little We know, even of our own produc-
tons. How much less those outside our
county know. A few DAYS ago. strolling
over one of the neighboring hills from
which there was grand panorama of the
country below US, extending away up the
Sacramento valley above Marysville and
down tar below Sacramento. as well as
over the intervening foothill country. 1t
occurred to me how few OF our people
have ever Toasted their vision on such a
seene2 How many among US who have
seen 1t appreciate the sublimity of Il q?
How many of the city people, if thew knew
that one hours ride from the State capitaI
would bring them, at an expense of 81, to
where they could view such natural grand
eur-especiaily at this season of the wear
would not only visit the country. bur se-
cure small piece of the immense quantity
winch, although taken up and held at from
SO ID $50 an acre, is yet cheap s glance
at the country from an elevation shows
there IS only an occasional spot cleared
and improved, notwithstanding all the
noise and talk about it. There is plenty of
room left among US. Now, as they will
not GENE to see our country let US carry
our produces 70 them and make such 4 dis
play as will induce others to join with US
IN improving TINS county, in which nature
has been so lavish in its gifts
]. j. MORRISON.