Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-01-21
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Sacramento has citrus fair. The
fruit is supposed to have been grown in
the part Of the State adjacent to that
city-at Winters, Newcastle, Marys-
Vile and other parts Of Yolo and Placer
counties. It was heralded over the
country by wire few days ago that a
whole carload of oranges had been ship
ped from Newcastle via Sacramento to
the East. The fruit growers OF that part
of California, which has real merits OF its
own and which years enjoyed
a great degree Of prosperity before the
southern port Of the State began to re-
ceive particle Of recognition. II south
California ever expressed word OF dis
satisfaction at this, the fact is not on
record. For the past four years Los
Angeles and her sister counties have
been growing as fast as any section OF
the Union ever did, and faster than any,
with very few exceptions. This is fact
the northern section OF the State cannot
bear with an equal mind. The Sacra-
mento valley ard the city Of that ilk
suffer more from this sickishness than
other regions. But that is quite natural
as the river region is bilious one any
how. 1t is a well recognized fact that 1t
is the climate Of Semi Tropic California
which is proving the touchstone TO draw
ali this tide of immigration to hor shores.
The exponent Of this Semi-Tropic state
of the atmosphere is the citrus truit
Hence the great anxiety on the part OF
the s"North CONTRIB" to prove to the
outside barbarian from beyond the Great
Divide that they too can grow the golden
fruit of the fabled Hesperides. From
the way this exhibit has been her
aided as most successful, from the TACT
that IL is to be removed to San
Francisoo. from the other fact that visi-
,ora even from Los Angeles to the State
Capital. who have beheld this have been
Impressed with the. show and have come
home 10 trumpet its merits in the ears
of ApRelefios, from the further fact that
some Of the daily papers here have given
emphasis TO these alleged northern
grown fruits, IL begins to look as II actu-
ally people who know no better might
be made to credit the proposition that
the north can become an orange produc-
ing season. Oranges do grow IN some
Of the little sheltered valleys OF folo
and Placer counties. They grow at
Florence, Italy, but not for coin. Some
one showed an orange here the other
day in this city which had been pre-
duoed in Oregon. 1t was not very sweet.
There is q proposition to hold citrus
fair at Chicago this spring, but
the fruit is to go forward from
Southern California. People from
the east who are intent on going
into the citrus fruit growing had better
look with lynx eyes into this matter be-
fore thoy buy land there, then send to
Los Angeles for trees to set it, They
will find after ten years fruitless effort
that they will have to send here for or
anges TO tie on the barren limbs OF their
useless orchards, if they want to give it
the semblance OF an orange grove. A
real estate dealer once showed the writer
little clump of orange trees near San
Jose, and tried to coax him into the
purchase of the place to plant it with
citrus trees The shrewd land shark
had already persuaded partner OF the
writer. tenderfoot OF the most pro-
nounced type, into his plan. But when
the Junior member of the firm, who pos
sibly looked as gullable as his senior,
looked at the dealer in dirt and said; II
have been fifteen years in California, cir,
several of which were spent among the
orange groves of Los Angeles. When l
want TO 20 into the citrus fruit business
il will be there, in the semi tropics,
there was sudden end OF the matter.