Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-17
CITRUS FAIR ASSOCIATION.
Transferring the Exhibits to Chicago ant
the Immigration Work.

Transferring the Exhibits to Chicago and
the Immigration Work.
The Directors of the Citrus Fair Associa-
ton held another meeting at the Board Of
Trade rooms yesterday afternoon, Albert
Gallatin presiding and DR.. Latham Secre-
tary. The Chair stated that the meeting
was an adjourned session of the Directors
meeting commenced the day previous, at
which time committee was appointed to
prepare plan for extending the present
Immigration Society of Central California,
so as to secure the cooperation of the yari-
GUS counties. Also the Finance Committee
of the Citrus Fair Association had been re-
quested TO prepare statement of the
amount the Association would have avail
able for paying expenses of the Citrus Fair
TO be held in Chicago.
The following financial exhibit, received
from the Committee on Finance was read
by the Secretary:
Cash subscriptions received 81. 800
Receipts thus far at door-................... 700
Donation by Sacramento city and county, 1000
Total cash. $, 600
The approximate disbursements are:
Medals and other prizes donated. ..... $3.50
Advertising and papers. 500
Expenses of holding fair........ ............ 700
Total s., $50
Approximate balance. $50
Approximate value of prizes otfered........ $3.50
The Secretary stated that Senator Hearst
had indicated a willingness to assist the
| Citrus Fair Association financially. and
com mittee consisting of ThoS. L. Thomp-
SOD, r. D. Stephens, c. r. Parsons, joseph
Hahn and Dr. Latham, were appointed to
represent the interests of the Association,
and to solicit such donation for its support
as should be accorded.
On motion of J. J. Morrison, it was or
dered that the following dispatch be sent
| to I. III. Goodman, General Ticket and Pas
senger Agent of the Southern Pacific Com
| pany:
SACRAMENTO. December 16, 1886.
| The Board OF Directors of the Central Califor-
mia Citrus Fair Association, in meeting assem-
! bled and representing twenty counties invite
| you to make up and bring party of the officers
and representatives of the company to visit our
fair at any time il may be convenient before its
close on Saturday evening.
The motion was unanimously carried
and the dispatch sent, signed by the Presi-
dent and Secretary of the Board of Di-
rectors.
Mr.. Morrison also stated that the Placer
! county exhibitors had held a meeting yes
in the fair, to be used in the proposed ex-
hibition in Chicago.
The Committee upon Plan of Organiza-
ton then submitted its report, which was
as follows:
The undersigned committee, selected by you
| to report some form of organization, beg leave
| to submit the following
That the counties consisting of Sacramen
| San Joaquin, Calaveras, Amador, Ell Dorado,
| Placer, Nevada, Suffer- Euba, Sierra, Butte,
| Plumas, Lassen, Modo', Tehama, Shasta
Siskiyou. Del Norte, Humboldt, Trinity, Colusa,
Mendocino, Lake, Yolo, Solano, Napa, Sonomsl :
Marin, San Francisco, Alameda and Contra
Costa shall form an immigration Association,
consisting of five Directors each, except Sacra-
mento, which shall have nine: and that said
Association shall be called the Central Cali
fornia immigration Association. That each
| county Immigration Association shah select
one of their said Directors, to represent them
| in the immigration Association at Sacramento
which shall be the parent Association, thus
| making the Central, or parent Association con-
| sist of twenty eight members, five of which
| shall constitute quorum. Allmeetings of the
parent Association shall be held at Sacramento.
That permanent exhibition building be
erected in Sacramento as near the depot as pos
| slbe, IN which the counties represented in the
directory at Sacramento, and that have con-
tributed all amount sufficient to satisfy the said
| directory at Sacramento, shall have a perna-
nent exhibition, consisting of the products of
| said counties.
The annual expense of maintaining said or
ganiZation will be about Sl0,500 per annum.
| That the Supervisors of each county be asked
| to contribute 500 towards maintaining said or
! ganization and permanent exhibit except Sac
ramento city and county, which shall be asked
to contribute $; and San Francisco, which
| shall be asked to contribute s.
That the Southern Pacific Company be asked
to give the use of space near the depot for said
building, and should be asked for an amount
| annually equivalent to one-third of the amount
contributed the various counties.
| That this meeting select the names of five
| persons in each county to serve as Directors of
the Immigration Association in such county,
and that the Chairman of each county Associa-
| ton have the power to fill all vacancies; that
| the Directors selected shall serve for one year
(or until their successors have been elected)
| from the first Tuesday OF January, 1887, and
shall be elected annually thereafter by the cit-
zens or members of the Immigration Associa-
tons of the various counties.
That the press be asked to cooperate with the
various counties and urge upon Supervisors the
nef essty of immediate action.
That the Secretary of this meeting notify the
different persons named as Directors in said
counties of their selection, and request them to
serve and organize Immediately.
G. E. Brand, D. n. Honn, II. A. Messenger
Jonas J. Morrison, Edwin X. Alsip, Committee.
The report was read and considered
seria EN-, and without conclusive action.
Its final consideration was postponed until
3 o'clock this afternoon, when all the Di-
rectors and the members of the press now
III tne Oity "le ICY uesteu ~ We present at
the Board of Trade rooms, over L. L.
Lewis & Co.'S establishment, corner Fifth
and J streets.
After discussion as 10 the methods for
raising the balance of funds required to
make the exhibit at Chicago, it was ordered
that Albert Gallatin be appointed at the
head of committee OF three-the other
two to be appointed by him-to go to San
Francisco and seek to obtain substantial as
sistance from the business men of that
plaoa for tho ahova oh;act