Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-01-19

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comedy Of the age which is involved
in the people Of the northern ana
central counties OF California setting
up citrus fruit belt. We have not
cared to characterize this outrage on
truth as il deserved. II ID a fruit oi
the conspiracy tactics OF the last year.
citrus exhibits in Northern California
never having been heard oil prior 70
that date. The northern and central
counties have seen with dismay that
the tide Of immigration from the East
and the world at large is setting ire
sistibly towards Southern California.
They have, as a sort oil breakwater,
made up their minds to deceive the
people, and we regret to see that the
San Francisco newspapers are parti-
ceps criminis in this plan. AS an in
stance we append the following from
the Call:
Now that IL is definitely arranged
that the citrus fair will be removed
to this city and continued here for
some time TO come, the SACRAMENTO
Record Union calls upon the exhib-
itors from the seventeen counties
represented TO increase their exhibits,
and appeals TO the large number OF
fruit-growers not exhibiting to send
in samples OF their products. In
reference TO the place OF exhibition
in this city, the Record Union suggests
that the Mechanics Pavilion is toe
remote from the business center for
the fair TO accomplish the good ex-
pected from it. The more the
number of exhibitors can be in
creased, the greater the effect must be
upon those who visit the fair. twill
do much good by more thoroughly
emphasizing the fact that Northern
California is the home of the citrus
fruits, and by bringing the observer
TO realization OF the large. extent OF
country adapted TO the growth OF
these fruits. In one sense our con-
temporary is right in saying that the
fair should be held in the business
portions OF the city. The object IL to
have It generally visited, and the
hundreds, and perhaps thousands,
Of Eastern people who VIII either
wirterin this city or State, or visit us
during the winter months, see these
exhibits under the most favorable
conditions. The most OF these East
ern people stop at the downtown ho-
tells or large boarding-houses, and
there is good deal OF force in the
argument that central location
for the fair should be
chosen. Unquestionably this would
be the better arrangement, but no ex-
pense for rent, beyond the actual cost
of gas, labor, etc, attaches TO the ex-
hibit ii made in the Pavilion, and II is
stipulated in the agreement with the
managers thereof that all Eastern ex-
cursionists and tourists shall be ad-
mitted free OF charge. The Pavilion
is easily and quickly accessible from
every portion of the city, and II the
State Immigration Association, to-
gether with that of Northern Califor-
mia, aided by every county, do the
proper amount OF work, there will
on this account. IL is an excellent
opportunity TO advertise the state
and its capabilities, and is the one
which we should make the greatest
possible use Of.
In the foregoing we have the proof,
clear and irrefragable, that the lead
ing newspapers of San Francisco are
willing TO lend themselves to one OF
the grossest frauds OF the age. No
excess Of charity can disguise the
clear Peter Funk enormity OF this per-
formance. The writer in the Ca , un-
less he is an inconceivable ass-or-
binary assininity may be assumed of
Cal editorial writer's without the i'm
putation OF moral obliquity-knows
that in the foregoing paragraph he is
willfully deceiving his readers.
The truth is that the probability is
extreme that most of the oranges ex-
hibited at the Northern Citrus Fair
have been slyly purchased from
Los Angeles or Riverside growers.
That few oranges have been grown
in Colusa and other counties in the
neighborhood of Winters and Smarts-
vile, cannot be doubted, but they
have been grown under infinite diff
culties and have at no time assumed
anything like commercial PROPOSE
tion. They have been cherished and
nourished as q sort OF outdoor exotic.
They have been guarded as the apple
of the eye of their owner. They have
been wrapped in blankets at night,
and have received undivided care
and attention at all critical stages OF
their existence. Taking all portions
OF Northern and Central California
together, it is fair to say that perhaps
a thousand dollars worth Of oranges
Save been ssld from these trees in
the last twenty years. As a CONNER
Sial proposition this is not an over
shadowing showing. But still it is
enough to buttress Peter Funk pro-
gramme.
We observe that this Peter Funk
exhibit is to be taken down TO San
Francisco. With the additional pur-
chase OF two or three carloads of Los
Angeles and Riverside oranges, sand
wiched in between Il couple OF cargoes
of the Tahiti imports, it will probably
be made TO do good service in the
game of deception at the Mechanica'
Pavilion at the Golden Gate. Every
thing goes in a Peter Funk layout.
The melancholy feature of the whole
thing is that before the present season
ends every orange tree in Northern
and Central California will be frozen
dead to its roots, The snow will lay
deep and long over the citrus fruit
belt of Northern and Central Califor-
mia. The people there will be Obliged
TO dig their trees up and set them be-
side the kitchen fire to have any guar
antee that single one of them will
live, TO shiver and quake in the
rigors Of the winter of next year.
Amongst the exhibitors mentioned
at the Sacramento Citrus Fair as re-
corded in the Colusa Sun, we notice
the name oi Mr.. l.. f. Moulton. This
gentleman, some years ago, came
down to Los Angeles county, bought
six thousand orange trees and set
them out on his place in Colusa
county. OF the six thousand one
tree, through the plentiful use Of
blankets, has succeeded in living.
Just here is the ghastly by
poerisy Of this Northern Citrus Fair.