Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-15
THE GOLDEN ORANGE.
THE FOURTH DAY OF THE CIT.
RUS FAIR.
Visited by the Pioneers Ex-
hibitors Have to Say-Appoint-
ment of Committees.

d uecP anu pdiucildDIe prlue- IL is the pres
ent citrus fair which is being held in the
Arcade building on Second street. The
annual State fair, with its usual sameness,
comes and goes, and each adds but another
chapter to the history OF the varied pro-
ducts and industries of the State, with the
exception that each successive fair shows
grander improvements and places Cali
fornia, rs an agricultural, horticultural and
live stock-raising State, in thelead of every
other State in the Union The State,fair,
held, as it always is, in the month of Sep
TENDER, failsto place before the world the
valuable and promising branch of horti-
culture, that of the culture of citrus fruits.
California, unlike her sister States, has fruit
ripening in the open air in every season of
the year; in fact those who live in northern
and central California can pluck fruit in
every month of the year, and their out
door flow er gardens are ever in bloom.
The attendance at the fair yesterday was
in excess of that Of any preceding day The
exhibitors have become aroused TO the i'm
portance of each ones furnishing all the
information to visitors regarding their sec
ton, and in this line a lively rivalry was
observable between those in charge of the
Yuba, Butte, Placer and Sacramento county
exhibits. Butte and Yuba counties have
active, wide-awake gentlemen in charge of
their exhibits, who, from their familiarity
with their sections and the rearing of citrus
fruits, never fail to interest the visitor and
no doubt but those two counties will reap
a large benefit in the way of a desirable
immigration from their untiring efforts in
that direction. Several gentlemen from
Oroville are enthusiasts in this matter
and no individual in search of citrus in
yestment will go southwark while such su-
perior inducements are held out to them in
Butte. What is true of Butte is equally
true of the entire list of counties represent
ed at the fair.
l.. NJ. Holt, of Riverside, a gentleman
perhaps better posted than any other on the
coast on the subject of citrus fruit culture,
stays with his Riverside exhibit, and his
views and suggestions are looked upon as
authority. He is gentleman who claims
no superiority for his section, but claims
that =" by their fruits We shall know them"
1t is true of his section, that for years the
cultivation of oranges for the market has
been the occupation of many during that
time the choicest and best varieties have
been obtained 1t is equally true that
northern California, with the same attention
TO the same branch of industry, can equal
if not excel the fruit can be raised at halfthe
expense, land suitable for their cultivation
obtainable for a much less price, the fruit
placed upon the market at a much earlier
date, and the profits resultant in conse-
quence must be largely in favor of the
northern country. Mr. Holt stated to a
reporter yesterday that he planted an acre
of oranges at Riverside two years ago, three
years-old trees, and that last week he sold
his crop, which netted him $500 What
kind OF an investment would pay better?
The trees will grow and produce equally as
well here. Mr.. Holt says that the rainfall
at Riverside, in some seasons. is less than
| two inches, and the trees have to be forced
throughout nearly the entire year by irri-
cation. In this section irrigation in most
places is entirely unnecessary
1t was for time thought that Tehama
was the northern line of the citrus belt,
but from information obtained from resi-
dents of Shasta county, it appears that they
claim that there, also, the orange, lime and
lemon flourish. Several exhibits from that
section prove the assertion. 4 box of
oranges taken from an orchard five miles
from Redding, in the foothills, and which
by actual measurement averaged ten inches
around and eight ounces in weight, were
sent to the Worlds Exhibition at New Or
leans. The fruit was, as is all northern
citrus fruit generally, without spot or blem-
ish.
Some of the oldest orange trees in north
ern California are to be found near the
town of Shasta, which produce annual and
abundant crops.
In Shasta 1t has been found that the foot
hills, up to a hight of $500 feet, have APP
proXlmateiy the same temperature as
places in the valley having the same lati-
tude. 1t has also been found that with
an increased elevation there is an in
crease OF rainfall over those places having
the same latitude in the valley. One of
the gentlemen from Shasta, yesterday in
setting forth the beauties of his section.
the produchveness of the SOIL the health
iulnesS OF its climate, ETC., closed his re-
marks by saying And what is more, our
county Is never visited by destructive
Wlnd-storms or water spouts, trembling
earthquakes, scale bugs nor grasshoppers
neither Is there any danger from debris
from hydraulic mines In addition to
large tracts of vacant lands there are some
valuable farms, well improved with good
and comfortable dwellings and out-build-
lngs, title perfect, that can be purchased at
much less than cost, because the owners
have become restless at sight of the in
crease of settlers, and are DESTROYS of fol-
The Placer county exhibit is principally
from Newcastle, Penryn, LOOMS, Rose
vile, Auburn and the country contiguous
TO the railroad from ColfaX to Roseyille.
Newcastle has in reality become the Los
Angeles of the north, and her production
OF citrus fruit, so far as quality and size is
concerned, will compare favorably with the
best Newcastle and the lands in that sec
ton seem to be particularly adapted to the
early r1pening of oranges, and this season
carload of fine navel oranges was shipped
across the continent and placed upon the
Eastern market before the HOLIDAYS. This
was surprise to the people of the East.
the fruit brought unprecedented prices and
the northern orange-raisers had pocketed
the profit of their crop before the fruit in
the Los Angeles orange groves had began
to change its color from the green to the
golden.
The exhibits from Yolo, Solano. Lake,
Nevada, Napa and Calaveras, are not
on so large scale, still they bear evidence
that in all this section, extending as far
north as Siskiyou, and from the foothills of
the Slerras to those of the coast range. the
orange and olive can be grown with profit.
There are many exhibits of almonds,
walnuts, tilberts, pecans, dates, olives,
tropical fruits and plants, and quite dis
play of the flora of California. all of which
Is tastefully arranged, pleasant to look
upon, and gives a stranger some idea of
what is produced in this climate during the
winter months. A photographer was
busily engaged yesterday taking views of
the different exhibits, but owing to the |
prevailing fog the light indoors was hardly |
sufficient to enable a good picture to be |
taken. The best time to visit the pavilion |
is at night, when it is brightly illuminated
with electricity
The tea plant grown near Auburn at
tracts great deal of attention, especially |
among the ladies, who wish to see growing
that which is used in making their favorite |
beverage.
The organization of California Pioneers
attended in a body yesterday, many of
them accompanied by their families.
Many were the Aattering remarks passed
upon the display of golden fruit by those
who were IN California long before the
advent of the orange
Among those who have been appointed
as judges, the following named gentlemen
have accepted: Thomas L. Thompson.
Secretary of State; j. B. Stetson and VIM. |
II. Mills, of San Francisco, and NJ. M.
Estee, of Napa. The awards will not be |