Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-01-31


spiracy il has In truth done an ines
Unable service TO Northern as well
as Southern California. The former
region will be compelled TO fall back
upon its legitimate claim upon the
attention Of immigrants.
The way our esteemed contempora-
ries in the up country rage against the
HERALD may be CLEANED from the fol-
lowing, which we take from the Gro
willie Mercury, Of the Goth inst:
The Los Angeles HERALD is much
excited because Of the successful ex-
hibitioD of Northern California citrus
fruits, and dubs the splendid exhibit
Of fruit produced in Butte, pla-
Ger, fuba, Tehama and OF the 9th er
counties, Il Peter Funk exhibit, de-
claring that the oranges, lines, lem
ons and other fruits from this section
which created such wonder in Sacra-
mento and are now surprising the
San Franciscans, were purchased in
Los Angeles and Tahiti and palmed
off as Northern California produc-
tons for the sake of deceiving the
world and turning the tide OF immi-
grafton this way. After declaring
that the fruits exhibited at Sacra-
mento were purchased in Los AM
geles, and the orange trees in North
ernand Central California "are cher
ished and nourished az a sort of out
door exotic" all Of which Is a base
Misrepresentation, the HERALD de-
livers itself OF the following miser-
able libel oil our northern section:
1--WE observe that this Peter Funk exhibit
IL to be taken down to San Francisco. With
the additional purchase of two or three car,
loads OF Los Angeles and Riverside oranges,
sandwiched in between.a couple OF cargoes
of the Tahiti imports. 1t will probably be
made to do good service In the game OF de-
ception at the Mechanics Pavilion at the
Golden Gate. Everything goes In Peter
Funk layout. The melancholy feature OF
the whole thing Is that before the present
and Central California will be frozen dead
to It's roots The snow Will lay deep and
long over the citrus fruit belt OF Northern
will be Obliged to dig their trees up. aud set
them beside the Kitchen fire to have any
guarantee that a single one OF them will
live to shiyer and quake In the
rigors Of the winter q the next
toned at the s Sacramento Citrus Fair as re
corded by the Colrsa sun, we notice the
name Of Mr.. l. +. Moulton. This gentleman,
some years ago, Q me down TO Los Angeles
county, bought six thousand orange trees
aud set them out on his place In Colusa
county. of the six thousand one tIee,
through the plentiful use of blankets, has
succeeded In living.
Northern Citrus Fair. II was intended to
distract attention from the semi-tr0pical
citrus belt of Southern California. Provi.
dence. which hates a lie, has so arranged
the present season as to remove Florida
from the competitors OF Southern California
as an orange producer, and to assure the
death OF every orange tree, outside OF hot.
house. which stands In the northern and
central portions OF the Golden state.
The above Is either lie of the most
vicious type or is an exposure OF an
abiect and shameful ignorance that
should consign the editor of the HER
AID to the study of primary geogra-
ply, or, in justice to the newspaper
world, to a lunatic asylum. His arti
Gle is a gross, premeditated libel from
beginning to end. Probably the real
estate agents in Los Angeles inspired
this disreputable TRADE. But it won't
work. Southern California must sue
cumb to the inevitable, which is that
Northern California is not only her
rival, but Is superior in the produc-
ton of citrus fruits. In substantial
ton of our allegation that the HER
AIDS article concerning Northern
California, and particularly Butte
county, is an infamous libel, we APP
pend the following wager made by +.
w. Fogg, Cashier Of the bank OF Rid
eout, Smith Il Co., and Major A. +.
Jones, prominent attorney, both OF
this town. These gentlemen under
take the following, and are ready to
abide by the consequences:
WAGER.
We the undersigned, residents of
Oroville, will deposit $1,000 at the
California State Bank, Sacramento,
and hereby challenge any person or
persons, editors OF articles detri-
mental to the fair fame of Butte
county's citrus fruit preferred to
place like amount with ours, to be
wagered on either of the following
propositions
First-That the assertions made in
the Los Angeles HERALD of Sunday,
January IL, 1886, rejecting on the
cirrus fruit productions of Northern
California are untrue in fact and sub
stance, in so far as Butte county is
concerned.
Second-That none OF the citrus
fruits exhibited by the citizens OF
Oroville and vicinity at the citrus
fair lately held in Sacramento, or
that at San Francisco at present, was
purchased or raised in Los Angeles or
Riverside, or outside of Butte county,
or that the said exhibited fruit was
cultivated by means of ot-houses,
blankets, or any artificial means
other than ordinary irrigation.
L. W. FoGa,
A. +. JONES,
Now let Los Angeles put up or shut
up.
As soon as the eagle eye of the
editor of the HERALD fell upon the
foregoing challenge he Immediately
placed himself in communication with
the London Change and Paris bourse
and sold several millions OF dollars
worth of consols and rentes, As a
resulthe has placed a million pounds
sterling on deposit in the Bank OF
England which he is willing to wager
on the following propositions:
First.-That Gen. Bidwell will not
say that he has ever made any money
on oranges, although he has spent
much cash, time and labor in the at
tempt to grow them as commercial
proposition in Northern California.
Second. That since the opening of
railway communication with the East
not $4,000 worth of oranges have
been shipped to that quarter from the
northern and central counties of this
State.
In conclusion, we beg to assure our
superheated contemporary that we
are willing to convert into cash an
other million sterling of our consols
and rentes, and to risk it on the prop
osition that Northern and Central
California together will not ship
ten carloads of oranges to the
East in the next ten years. We add
that we never indulge in little, pitiful
wagers, All our financial operations
are large.
One word more, dear Mer-
curry, and we have done. Your ex-
hibit, however procured, is not pro-
ducing either wonder or surprise in
San Francisco for the simple and suf-
ficient reason that it was frozen up
during the late cold spell.
Wellington Coal
Is for sale at all the principal retail coal
yards in this city, and is guaranteed
superior in all respects to any other class