Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-15

citrus 4 air Association are 10 meet, 10 COLI
suit on matters of vital importance to the
interests of the central and northern sec
ton. 1t is desired that there shall be a full
attendance.
The appeal to the ladies to bring floral
offerings to the fair was well responded to
yesterday, and willing fair hands decorated
a beautiful frame with choice flowers.
We continue our notes Of exhibits:
YUBA COUNTY.
Yuba is foothill, valley and mountain
county, between the Yuba and Feather
rivers. 1t is due north of Sacramento 46
miles. 1t is high temperature county
throughout. healtlful, fertile and bound
lessly fruitful. The soil is mostly fine al
luvial loam There is little land in the
county that is not highly susceptible of
raising good fruit. Good fruit land can be
had there now as low as S25 per acre.
Yuba has two double tables and two wall
tables. Her exhibits are chiefly oranges
and lemons.
Mrs. NJ. Karr, who took first premium
last year, shows 43 boxes of oranges and
lemons. She has in Marysviile lie bearing
orange and 26 bearing lemon trees, and
many young trees. She claims the South
ern Pacific prize this year. Her oranges
are chiefly seedlings. They are large, full,
firm, and are deep, rich, golden tint, sig
nifying
MARKETABLE RIPENEss.
Frank Kirshner, p L. Hutchinson, ]. NJ.
c. Jasper, w. P. Cult and j. F. Baum, of
Wheatland, on the Bear river alluvial and
deep soil, show oranges and one magnif-
cent top of an S-year-old orange tree-a re-
markedly fine and heavily-loaded example.
T. j. Sherwood, Marysville, shows 10
boxes seedlings, 2 of Mediterranean Sweets
and of budded oranges, boxes Sicily
lemons and l of citron (genuine), and very
fine. The oranges are deep color, and su-
perior as to pulp, skin and size.
Thomas Farrell, H. NJ. Harris and J. B.
Fuller, Marysville, show fine seedlings of
similar quality. G. +. Lucas shows box
of Los Angeles, budded the trees were
bought at four years old twelve years ago,
and the fruit has gradually grown smaller,
until now they are mere little knobs, indi-
eating that the southern fruit in our soil
may run out" William Coghlan, Marys-
vile, shows Baldwin red oranges, japanese
persimmons lemons, olives, citron, tobacco
and cotton. He has $500 growing citrus
trees, from l to u years of age. His ex-
hibit is q splendid one. w. G. Murphy,
Marysyille, shows lemons and oranges,
showing the orange of 'S5 and Sc, picked
from the same tree; a queer comparison
they are. j. B. Mcdonald. Marysville, has
two varieties of persimmons and fine lot
of oranges and lemons. w. T. Ellis, Mays
vile, has oranges, lemons and dried figs.
A. B. Lewis, Marysville, shows dried figs
+. Parks, oranges. G. w. Pine, oranges lem
ons, and English walnuts. G. S. Cooley,
olives. w. NJ. Cutter, oranges, lemons and
persimmons. Mrs. G. n. Sweezy oranges,
lemons and pomegrdnates. Sisters of
Notre Dame, oranges, lemons and pome-
granates. f. w. II. Aaron, oranges and
lines, budded and seedlings. C. A.
Glidden, oranges. F. Terstegge, oranges,
both 'S5 and Sc growth ON one tree.
n. d. Coombs, oranges and lemons w. G.
Swain, lemons and oranges; Miss l.. Wear
man, oranges; Thos. Dougall, oranges and
lemons; Mrs. Ed. Smith, prunes; Mrs. W.
L. Mccoy, oranges and olives; G. S. Cooley,
lemons and oranges; Mrs. S. Hinchman,
oranges and lemons; Theodore Nielsen,
oranges; n. D. Rideout, oranges; Allan
Cooley, oranges; B. Peel, oranges and
lemons; L. c. Serett, oranges; Geo. 2. Hunt,
oranges; w. H. Plymore, oranges and
lemons; DR.. G. E. Stone, oranges and
lemons; L. White, oranges; Mrs. ]. S.
Belcher, oranges, lemons and lines; Mrs.
J. Lowery, oranges; A. d. Cuts, oranges
and lemons; J. Mccormack, oranges; Mrs C.
Binney, oranges and lemons; John Steven
son, oranges; Chas. Rush, oranges and
Baldwin lemons. the best variety grown in
Central California or anywhere else; J.
McGoWen, oranges; A. J. Cumberson,
oranges; DR.. D. Powell, oranges; Z. J.
Flannery, oranges and lemons; Fred
Greedy, oranges; 2. c. Slattery, oranges ard
lemons; +. Z. Smith, oranges; John Ruff,
oranges and lemons; f. Buttleman, oranges
andi lemons; S. Marcuse, pomegranates;
NJ. A. Marcuse, oranges; Mrs. NJ. Marcuse,
oranges; G. w. Peacock, oranges, lemons
and persimmons; l. III. Gassaway, oranges
and lemons land southern persimmons,
the only ones in the fair; John L. Stewart,
oranges lemons and citrons; e. A. Forbes,
oranges; j. ]. Chandon, oranges; d. E.
Knight, Sicily lemons and oranges, large
showing. All these are of Marysville.
BROWNS VALLEY,
Northeast of Marysville fourteen miles al
titude, 400 feet, foothills, shows as follows :
w. NJ .Jefferds, winter pears, ounces, pome-
grauates, oranges; ID. o. Daggett, oranges
boxes and clusters especially fine fruit,
probably not surpassed); HILBERT & Burris,
oranges. Marysville exhibitors show q
full bank of oranges in clusters. One
bunch from an eight-year- old tree has
thirty-six oranges. Six pumaloS, grown by
T. J. Sherwood, are shown, enormous in
size. One measures
TwENTY-oNE AND HALF
By twenty-five inches, the six measuring 8
feet OF inches. The pumalo is only shown
as curiosity. Smarts7ille shows: d.
McGanney, enormous oranges from young
trees, tsick-skinned, but they grow better
with age James o Brien, oranges, peculiar
pumaloS and persimmons; Thomas Conlin,
oranges. Smartsville's elevation is GOO feet,
soil gravelly gray loan. d. E. knight, of
Marysville, shows samples of grape brandy
from pure wine, from land three miles from
Lincoln, Placer county. 1t was bonded in
1881. Connoisseurs pronounce it first-class.
Mrs. Descalzo, Marysville, shows box OF
Mandarin oranges. This orange is more
ornamental than useful.
SUFFER- COUNTY
Is mainly grain-growing county. Little
attention, except by the Briggs, has been
given to fruit. The county is all valley,
except small part ButteS. The soil is all
rich alluvial Little land is to be had, it
nearly all being taken up and held from
$50 an acre and upward. Suffer shows
from Briggs ranch four varieties of dried
prunes, one of peaches and one of apricots.
]. J.. Duncan, Yuba City, shows oranges !;
j. ,. GnlppS, oranges ana EnSllSn WalnutS !,
]. S. Hogeboom, oranges w. H. Lee,
oranges A. B. Vandisdale, navel oranges
and seedlings; Mrs. Jane Copeland,
oranges; Chas. Weeman, oranges DIR. J.
G. Cannon, oranges-all of Yuba City. s..
Moody, South Butte, shows oranges and
liquorice root, fine quality of the root and
as good as any imported.
SACRAMENTO.
Sacramento county lies along the Sacra-
mento and American rivers, is Topographic
cally and commercially in the center of the
State. Its lands are rich bottom, plains,
valley, red with some hard PAM foothill
gravelly loan and some tule waste. Its
products run the whole gamut of
fruits and cereals. Its hop lands are I'M
surpassed in the world. Its berries and
fruits are notably prominent in the
markets, and its citrus growths are as fine
as any in the State. It's lands are well
settled, but with division of some large
tracts there is room for many Immigrants.
The temperature is warm, but not Cypress
i've. The air is dry and pure. Its climatic
advantages its most prominent features.
Sacramento shows exhibits on three
double tables. Oranges, lemons, pome-
granates and olives are shown by Isaac
Lee, Florin; also hquorice root by the
same, and as good as can be grown any
where. He exhibits also persimmons,
dried figs, almonds and American wainuts.
and splendid branch of lemon tree