River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-01-05

/ played by a huge revolving csrpucopia
| composed of all kinds OF fruits and nuts
| The whole is operated by water-power in
geniously concealed from the spectator.
Chico, one Of the county towns "a miles
/ from here. has an orange cottage most
/ tastefully constructed Ii is ID feet front
by 10 high, and 3, 900 Seeding oranges are
used in the structure, which is adorned with
mirrors and lace curtains
The exhibit OF fruits throughout is fan
tastic and unique IN it's presentation, and
/ Dewildering in its immensely. There are
/ oranges IS inches in circumference and
other things in proportion There are
/ apples in profusion. OF course, pears, ngs,
Japanese persimmons, raisins, pomegTan-
ates, shaddocks, lines, olives, almonds,
English, California and Eastern black wal
nuts, peoans, chestnuts. grains OF all kinds
and the usual garden productions, which
are novel only in size and the fact that they
are fresh from the ground, bu5 this is no
| novelty here however il impresses the
strangers TO me the greatest novelty was
holding, what might practically be termed
an open air fruit fair, IN Underwater
The citizens here demonstrate that this
| can be done by the stubborn fact that they
have none IT, and how it can be done IL
| dem onstrated by two points combined:
| First the rich soil and second, by compar-
ing 1.-THE average annual mean temperature
of this placs with the same III the most
| famous citrus regions of the old world
| Here are few of the figures;
AVERAGE ANNUAL MEAN TEMPERATURE
E ESSsb FTspss Ms sss4s fsaSd *
Malta, Sicily. ......67S OT0yille, 60
WAR OF EMULATION
The rivalry which exists between differ
| emit sections OF the State led some news
paper Joker to print the statement that tAs
| people OF OrOvil had sent TO Los Angeles
for five car 10 DIS of oranges TO exhibit at
their fsir The oroville papers retort that
| the fruit at Los Angeles will not he lipe for
"a month. point to tine growing trees with
/ ripe fruit in the pavilion, and wind up by
claiming prices of land to be only one-fouroh
what they are in Southern Cali ornis, while
every thing that grows there, grows here,
! in still greater profusion And thus a wordy
| and qui G amusing 70 ranger) war Is In
| full blast on the Pacific Coast Statistics
| of the killed and wOun Ell will be devel
4 oped by the census report OF 800. ex-
! pect other cities VIII take up the cud-
/ gels aud winter citrus fairs will be
come as much a standard California;
production as toboggan slides are
the Il st III any of them equal this initia
exhibit of Butte county, they may have 70
make the joke, relative TO going away from
home for the fruit, reality, by coming here
for supplies
1t would be hard to excel the local enthu-
siasm over the display. and the week has
| been a continuous outdoor holiday, W ii
| great thrOngs in attendance. Tn. plgrims
| are asked on all hands. what they think OF
| IL The waiter at my hotel table extracted
my opinion, as he served me, and as agreed
| with his views IL proved more successful
| 'tip" than hard cash and he could MOI
thereafter do too much for me Even the
| sprinktng OF Chinese have warmed up sui
ficiently to chip in 1.-TWO bits" for admission
| TO the pavilion, and when the point I:
reached which makes Chinaman spend any
money, you can calculate that popular en-
thusiasm must be 9t blood heat