Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-25
1.-THE NORTHERN CITRUS FAIR.
Fine Specimen of Champion Lying,
and Unblushing Cheek.

Los Angeles Herald
The Herald Sunday had few temperate
remarks about the prime comedy of the
age which is involved in the people of the
northern and central counties of California
setting up citrus fruit belt We have not
cared to characterize this outrage on truth
as 1t deserved. 1t is a fruit of the con-
splracy tactics of the last year, citrus ex-
nloIts in northern California never having
been heard OF prior 20 that date The
northern and central counties have seen
with dismay that the tide Of immigration
from the East and the world at large is
setting irresistibly towards southern Cali
tornia. They have, as sort OF break
water, made up their minds 10 deceive the
people, and we regret to see that the San
Francisco papers are pdrticepS criminis in
this plan. AS an instance, we append the
following from the CdH. THE article from
the CAL it is not necessary to reprint Eds
RECoRD-U MON In the foregoing we
have the proof, clear and irrefragable, that
the leading newspapers of San Francisco
are willing 10 lend themselves to one of
he-grossest frauds of the age No excess
of charity can disguise the clear Peter
Funk enormity of this performance. The
writer in the CAL. unless he is an incon-
ceivable ass-ordinary assininity may be
assumed of Gail editorial writers without
the imputation of moral obliquity-knows
that in the foregoing paragraph ne is will
fully deceiving his readers.
The truth is that the probability is ex-
IRENE that most OF the oranges exhibited
at the Northern Citrus Fair have been
syiy purchased from Los Angeles or River
side growers. That few oranges have
been grown in ColEsa and other counties
In the neighborhood Of Winters and
SmartsYille, cannot be doubted, but they
have been grown under infinite difficulties
anu have at no tine assumed ANYTHING like
commercial proposition. They have
been cherished and nourished as a sort of
outdoor exotic. They have been guarded
as the apple of the eve of their owner.
They have been wrapped in blankets at
night, and have received undivided care
and attention at all critical stages of their
existence. Taking all portions of north
efn ana central California together, it IS
lar 10 say that perhaps thousand dollars
worth of oranges have been sold from
these trees in the last twenty years. As a
commercial proposition this is not an over.
Swallowing showing. But still it is enough
70 mattress Peter Funk programme.
We observe that this Peter Funk exhibit
IS 10 he taken down to San Francisco. With
the additional purchase Of two OF three car
loads Of Los Angeles and Riverside oran ICES.
sandwIched in between couple of cargoes
OF the Tahiti imports, it will probably be
maze to do good service in the game Of de-
cepuon at the Mechanics Pavilion at the
Golden Gate. Everything goes in Peter
Funk layout. The melancholy feature-o
lie whole thing is that before the present
season ends every orange tree in northern
ana central California will be frozen dead
to its roots. The snow will Law deep and
long over the citrus fruit belt OF northern
and central California. The people there
will be obliged 10 dig their trees up and set
Them beside the kitchen fire TO have anv
guarantee that single one of them will live
to shlver and quake in the rigors of the win
ter OF the next year. Amongst the exhibitors
mentioned at the Sacramento citrus fair as
recorded in the Colusa SIN. we notice the
name Of l.. f. Moulton. This gentleman.
some years ago, came to Los Angeles
county, bought 600 orange trees and set
them cut on his place in Colusa county.
VI the 5000 one tree, through the plentiful
use OF blankets, has succeeded in living.
Just here is the CHASTITY hypocrisy of this
Northern Citrus Fair. 1t was intended to
distract attention from the semi-tropical
citrus belt of southern California. Prov
idence. which hates lie, has so arranged
the present sc son as to remove Florida |
from the competitors of southern Califor- |
ma as an orange producer, and to assure
the death OF every orange tree. outside of a |
hot-house, wEicn stands in the northern |
and central portions of the Golden State.