Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-17
WHOLE NO. ll,l26.
LETTER FROM CHICAGO.
Preparations in Progress for the Citrus
Fair from Central California.


CHICAGO, December 8. 1856.
EDS. RECORD UNION The weather here
has moderated since the beginning of this
week, and people can stand it out of their
houses. / have been around with Mr..
Washington Porter and others trying to
find a suitable place to exhibit the products
of Central and northern California, and the
fact is that so much business is done here
it is quite difficult to find an empty room
suitable. l think, however. we have got a
| place on Clark street that will do. It's in
| the center OF business, and our exhibit will
| show much better tnan in a vast hall. The
owners Of the hall on the lake shore asked
5000 per week rental for the room. | ex-
planned to the owner that the California
people had no desire to purchase the build
ing, but only TO rent. Then he said
We get 500 night for it for ball"
But, said. this is not a ball, it is a
| fruit exhibit, and our people do not charge
$5 ticket, and they do not dance the ger
man or hop, wal'z, or any other caper, only
walk around and wonder why they never
knew before that oranges grew in Califor-
| MIA in any other locality than Los Angeles
and Riverside" He made no reply and /
| left.
The Southern Pacific Company has done
! the proper thing in having printed an edi-
ton of 5000 copies of the Cornucopa,"
revised, and | am now circulating it
throughout the Northwest. Now that the
| Southern Pacific Company has an agent in
| Chicago, he is beset by inquiries concern
ing California. Applications for informa-
| ton are constant, and many people are
getting ready to go to California, and it is a
class of people that will settle there and is
mechanics, each of whom has money to
invest and industry to develop the country.
The Union Pacific Railroad took out
| from Omaha on the 9th instant 175 excur-
sionists, besides the regular list of passen-
gers, and four Pullman carloads left via
the B. and NJ. and D. and L. G. r. r. Ten
| Pullman carloads left ST. Louis for Califor-
mia, via the Missouri Pacific, on the 9th,
besides three carloads second class passen-
gers. The Illinois Central also sent out
about 100 via the Southern Pacific, making
| altogether nearly 1000 persons starting
| from this vicinity for California the same
| day. | understand, also, that a full train
| load went out from Kansas City the same
date, over the Santa Fe road. All the rail-
road agents are working the business, each
| struggling for the passenger traffic. Four
| teen new Pullmans will be sent out to the
Southern Pacific Company in few days.
The new books of the Southern Pacific
Company are marvels of taste and elegance,
with illuminated covers, and | am painting
the country red with them. We shall GER
tainly have boom for Central and north
ern California, and then the entire State
will be doomed. Los Angeles needs no
further advertising. Everybody seems to
know it well and now their people should
rejoice with US up north that the season of
prosperity is dawning for our section. /
have the greatest difficulty in convincing
people of the fact that in our State the lines
of latitude do not mark climatic divisions
that it is as mild in winter in the Sacra-
mento valley as it is in the south.
Last week the weather was awful cold,
and to hear these citizens complain one
would think it unusual; but | find that
fine weather is the exception, although
three days of this week have been, for this
climate, mild and warm-that is, one only
needed a light overcoat and a silk muffier.
Washington Porter, and also the Messrs.
Hixson, are doing all possible to forward
the interests of the Citrus Fair exhibit. l
hope it will be full and comprehensive,
| that canned fruit and that in glass jars will
be on exhibit and that raisins, prunes,
wines, wheat, corn, oats, potatoes etc, will
all be here, for some gentleman from the
bucolic districts may say, We'll, of course
you can raise oranges, but what else do you
raise there ?n The presence of other pro-
ducts will answer such queries. Yours
truly. VAN ARMAN,