Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-22
OFF FOR CHICAGO.
Departure of the First Carload of Citrus
Fruits for the East.

Fruits for the East.
The first carload of citrus fruits for the
Chicago exhibition left for the East last
evening, attached to the passenger train 1t
was well packed, with view to resist the
cold weather along the route. Just as soon
as the cars pass over the Summit, and the
limits of the State of California, it enters
climate cold and disagreeable, and no
better is found during the entire route.
While we are enjoying the glorious sun
shine, our citrus fruits are ripening in our
orchards, flowers of every variety and hue
are blooming in our gardens, the people
east of the Sierras, and north of the Gulf
States, are shivering with cold, their trees
stripped of their foliage, and covertd
in the snow, stand out against the sky in
the cold night air like great white spooks,
and the few dollars saved by the laborer
during the short months he is able to work
goes up his chimney in smoke, for it takes
his summer earnings to provide coal to
keep his family from freezing in winter
AS for flowers, they have none. No green
thing is TO be seen, unless it is the man
who could immigrate to California, but
would not. His children read of Califor-
MAS wineries skies; of her ending
spring; of her fruits ripening every day in
the year on the hillsides and in the valleys,
which, to them, are as interesting as the
veriest stories of fairy land.
As the car pulled out of the depot last
evening, an enthusiastic Californian ex-
claimed: There goes a quarter of mill
ion of oranges, and each orange will be
the means of bringing one immigrant TO
this section. Who would not change ten
Of hah act lnr,1 ,rN r-nl
with sleet, snow and ice for many months
each year, for an acre of oranges in Califor-
MIA that is an everything green, and bears
its burden of golden spheres at a season of
the year when two-thirds of the Union is
claimed by winter, who covers it deep with
the beautiful p"
A carload of ferns, red berries, etc, that
grow wild in profusion on the hillsides and
in the glens in Placer county, together
with several thousand oranges, will come
down from Newcastle to-day, and part of
it will go forward by the Eastern express
tonight.
The car that started last evening for Chi
cago had placards on both sides, the entire
length, bearing the following: Citrus
Fruits from Northern and Central Califor-
MIA for the Citrus Fair in Chicago
At meeting of residents of Yolo county,
held at Woodland on Monday, R. B. Blow
ers was chosen 10 go to Chicago and repre-
sent Yolo's interests at the California citrus
display, and will leave for that city in a
few days. A committee was appointed to
solicit funds for the expenses of the work
proposed to be done. Rev. j. A. Bonfeld,
J. l. Mcconnell and F. NJ. Brown were ap-
pointed to prepare short history of Yolo
county, to be issued as supplement to one
or both of the Woodland papers, and for
ward the same to Chicago for distribution.
An issue of $4,000 copies was authorized.
A committee was appointed to solicit fruits,
grain, nuts, and any other products of the
county for exhibition. All articles for ship
ment are to be left at the Office of Hall &
Bidwell, Woodland, and that firm will at
tend to their being forwarded.