Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-02-11
NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION.
Remarks in the "Picayune 4" as to Teach
ings of the California Exhibit.

Remarks in the "Picayune as to Teach
ings of the California Exhibit.
The New Orleans Picayme, in an article
published on the 9TH instant, says concern
ing the California exhibit:
There is no display at the Exposition
which has excited greater interest or made
a more favorable impression than that from
California. The Picayu,e has had occasion
to speak OF the lesson that California teach
es the Gulf States. Similar lessons are
daily being impaired to the thinking cti-
zens of other sections of our country. Space
| forbids dwelling on the countless resources
and productive prodigality of the Golden
State, as shown in her display Truly, it
is land flowing with milk and honey a
land of wonderful promise and marvellous
| fultillment. Charles B. Turrill, the Com
missioner for California, while calling at
tention to his native State, makes the state
ment that in California a man may make a
| good living easier and at less expenditure
of time, energy and money, than else
where.
| Go where one will, on the streets, in the
cars or in stores and you hear praise of the
| California display and the State from which
1t comes. Frequently, in the exhibition
| buildings one meets those who have care
| fully studied the California exhibit and re-
| solved to make their homes in that State.
| The late cold weather has caused still
| larger number to turn their attention in
that direction. Mr.. Turrill has had many
calls from gentlemen who several years
! ago went TO other States to engage in fruit
raising. and whose little all has been taken
away this winter by the relentless King of
| Cold. Many of these are making their ar
engagements TO remove to California, where
| they can engage in the culture of fruits
without the possibility of such a misfor-
| tune as has just befallen them, as the even
ness of the climate of California assures
success in the production of the finest fruits
! If any one wishes to inquire into the in
terest that centers in the California exhibit
let him examine into the methods of its
| get-up. The finest gems are improved by
| their settings, and the most interesting and
beautiful exhibits are rendered more so by
| their arrangement But even in these
when carried out with the most painstaking
| care there is frequently something lacking
| 1t is not enough TO show a product, but it
| is important to exhibit that article in all
its forms and processes of manufacture
This has been one of the aims in the Cali
fornia exhibit, which for beauty. complete
| ness and attention TO important minor de-
| tails is marvel of faithful, patient and
effective work
nc eAuiblt from California last year was
made by the Southern Pacific Company. by
which corporation Mr.. Turrill has been
employed for several years. 1t was through
the courtesy OF that company, and its gem
erous cooperation, that he was enabled this
year to accept the position of Commissioner
Tor this State and make the display he
shows. In this day when there is so much
said against railroads, it is a pleasing ex-
ception to find one of the greatest transpor-
tation lines in the world exerting all the
| energies OF its numerous departments,
through the agency of q specially delegated
employe, IN exhibiting 10 the world the
beauties, attractions and resources of a
State. While there are those who will ever
say that such exhibits made by railroads or
through their help return money to such
companies IN the settlement of lands ada
cent to those roads, there can be no doubt
In the minds of all that such collateral rev.
enue returned to railroad is but small
| fraction i'll comparison to the wealth added
to a State by such agency, and through an
accession Of taxable wealth, an increase of
profitable production from an extended
area of high-tilled agricultural lands.
orchards and vineyards, and through the
expansion and creation of manufacturing
enterprises, the outcome of samples of
crude products shown to manufacturers
attending great expositions That this
public spirit on the part of the Southern
Pacific Company is fully appreciated at
home is shown by the fact that the people
of California have taken the deepest inter
est IN the matter, and have contributed to
the work so literally of the products of
their farms, mines and mills, literally Join
ing. hands with the railroad in advertising