Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-04
THE COMING CITRUS FAIR.
What the Press of Northern California Is
Saying about 1t.

Saying about 1t.
tChico Enterprise
January 18th is the time set for holding a
citrus fair at Sacramento, to display the
fruits raised in northern California. The
date Is not very good one, as the oranges
at that time are nearly all gone. But this
drawback may be easily overcome if grow
ers VIII only take the pains to preserve a
quantity of fruit 1t has been proved dnr-
ing the past four or five years that the
citrus fruits of this end of the State are far
superior to those grown in southern Cali
lorna. Our people have never been watch
ful OF their own interests by letting the
world know what they could do in the way
OF orange and lemon culture 1t has been
demonstrated that Butte county is one of
the best producing regions of the
State, and the fruit is now receiving favor
able notice all over the county. Butte
county oranges now command the fanciest
figures in all the large markets. Some OF
the most thrifty orange groves in the coun-
ty are found along Butte and Chico creeks
The proposed citrus fair will afford us
splendid opportunity for introducing our
fruits to the notice of the public. Every
citizen should assist in making suitable
collection of oranges and lemons. General
Bldwell and several others of our business
men have been selected by the Board of
Managers of the fair to solicit donations of
fruit in Chico and vicinity. The work of
collection should begin at once.
WISE WORDS FROM soNoMA.
lSonoma Daily Democrat
There are enough growers of citrus fruits
III Sonoma county TO make good display
at the fair to be held at Sacramento if they
will take sufficient interest in the matter to
attend to it. 1t will cost them next to
nothing, since the managers of the fair
have made arrangements for the transpor-
tation of articles for exhibition by Wells,
Fargo d Co.. and pay all expenses them
selves. We hope, therefore, that all who
have oranges, lemons or other citrus fruits,
also olives, dates, chestnuts, ETC., of Sonoma
county growth, will send them for exhibit
ton. Cut flowers, grown in the open air,
will be acceptable as exhibits also. as they
assist in showing the semi-tropical charac-
ter of the climate. We regard this move
ment as one of first-class Importance to the
counties of northern California. Southern
California has built up reputation abroad
upon its semi-tropical climate which has
added tens of thousands of people to its
population, developed its resources amaz-
ingly and enriched it. The northern part
of the State made no effort to advertise it
self until very recently, and but little
has been known of its resources abroad.
The result has been that the tide of
immigration has been southwark, and
northern California has been neglected.
year or two ago an immigration asso-
citation was organized at Sacramento which
the means of making the northern section
better known in the East and in Europe,
and has settled thousands of emigrants in
northern counties. This citrus fair is part
of its work. 1t wishes to show what
northern California can do in this line
The fair will attract many strangers but
the greatest good will result from the
spreading of the facts far and wide through
the columns of the newspapers 1t has
been demonstrated by many experiments
in various Localities that citrus fruits of en-
cellent quality can be grown in Sonoma
and Napa counties, and in the Sacramento
valley and foothills as far north as Shasta
county. More than this, it is claimed, we
believe justly, that the oranges and lemons
of northern California are superior to
those grown in Los Angeles. They are
larger, cleaner, and of better flavor. The
writer remembers seeing ripe oranges on a
tree in Marysyilie twenty-tlIree years ago !;
and we have before us as we write, an
item from the APpedI of that city, of a
lemon tree there twenty feet high and
| large in proportion, from which $50
lemons were taken within week, with
out making u noticeable impression. it
being estimated that there were thousands
upon it still ripening. At OroYille, in Butte
county, the finest oranges are grown. At
Florin, in Sacramento county, a gentleman
has fifty orange trees in bearing, that Weld
abundantly. We know what has been
done in Souoma valley, and other localities
in this county What has been done in
northern California has been little more
than experimental, but the trees have all
grown in the open air, without having
been protected from the severity of the
weather by artificial means, as must he
done in southern California. The fact La,
therefore, been fully demonstrated that
northern California is as well adapted TO
the growth of citrus fruits as the South.
and the fair about to be held in Sacramento
will demonstrate that fact We saw. there
| fore, the movement is one of great impor-
| lance to the northern part of the State, and
should be made a success. 1t is only a be-
ginning. The fair not having been antlci-
pated, 1t cannot be as great a success as it
might have been under more favorable cir
cumstances, but beginning will have been
made, and, another year, greater things
will be accomplished.
PLACER COUNTY TO THE FRONT.