Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-29
CITRUS FAIR FOR CHICAGO.
Objections to Transferring Our Exhibits
to the East the Present Season.


EDS. RECORD UNION: observe that prop
ositions have been made to forward the
Northern California Citrus Fair exhibition
to Chicago, for exhibition there l doubt
very much the wisdom of such a move
and will briefly give my reasons.
The fair, as held at Sacramento, was got
ten up at least twenty days too late in the
season TO reap the fullest benefits of such
an exhibition to northern California. If
the fair had been held month earlier we
would have shown the superior advantage
OF our climate in the early ripening of the
fruit, and at the same time a superior QUAIL
ity, as much the best grown in the northern
part OF the State had been picked and
marketed before it was determined to hold
fair at all. Now, if we take this
irult to Chicago at this time, it will
be impossible to make the Eastern
public understand and believe these facts.
and we will fail in the main purposes of
making such an exhibition. Beside the
fruit now on exhibition at San Francisco
has already been exhibited in rooms filled
with impure air for two weeks, and is not
In lit condition to show even to our own
people. While in my opinion the people
of northern California need have no fear
OF the results of an exhibition of their
citrus fruits with those grown in the south
ern part of the State under even circum-
stances, yet with the many disadvantages
they would be placed under at Chicago. il
would be lmprudent to enter upon such a
contest as they would invite and encounter
When in Chicago year ago, arrangements
were very nearly completed for moving
the annual Riverside citrus fair
then to be held in March al
riverside, to Chicago for exhibition. The
riverside people, however, decided to put
OIL the enterprise for one year. and one of
the main reasons for such postpopement
was that their fruit, having been on exhi-
bltion week at home, would show to
dlsaoyantage at Chicago | understand il
is their intention 10 hold their regular
annual March citrus fair this season at
Chlcago, holding none at Riverside Should
they 40 so, the disadvantage of the north
ern exhibition will be greatly increased, as
they will be showing their poorer fruit out
OF season, and having been through two
fa!rs, against fresh fruit from Riverside.
taken direct from the orchard and shown
IN It's best condition. 1t will be useless for
the northern people then to say they did
not come to enter into COMPETE
ton. but only to show that
they can raise citrus fruits. The sharp
est competition VIII by the very
circumstances be forced upon them and
they will be very reluctantly compelled to
accept Its results, however unpleasant.
thlnK 1t would be much to the advantage
OF northern California to hold an exhibit
ton OF her citrus fruits at Chicago. saw next
December, about the middle of the month.
Then all the advantages of such an exhibit
ton may be secured, and none of the unfa-
vorable circumstances which would now be
inevitably connected with the exhibition
would attend the enterprise, and an un-
doubted success could then he made.
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