Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-09-15

Pavilion, near the rotunda, has many feat
ures which attract special attention, and
among these perhaps none are more Won
derful than those which represent the great
lumber trees of this ocean-washed county
For instance, a plank is on exhibition,
cut in single piece, eighty inches wide,
eleven feet long and three inches thick, the
entire surface being beautiful clear lumber.
This plank is only one of five of similar
size taken from half of log, and hence in
one log OF this tree there were ten such
planks, besides a large amount of lumber
that could be cut in narrower pieces. The
exhibit of this specimen is made by Hon.
John Vance, Mayor of Eureka. Applica-
ton has been made to him to bave it trans
ferred to the Sacramento Permanent Expo
sition near the depot, where it may be seen
by the travelling thousands from the East.
In the way of large tree growth is an
other plank, five feet long and twelve feet
wide, to show the size of the tree, as well as
the quality of lumber. The log was cut
short so that it could be sawed crosswise,
and to enable saving the fall width of the
tree. Although this plank is twelve feet
wide, it only shows about two inches in
sap. Some beautiful sawed specimens of
redwood berl both in rough state and in
manufactured articles, are shown. The top
Of a stand composed of this wood is as
beauty of finish, as was ever seen ct the
State Fair.
A modti butter case, neatly made from
three varieties of wood, and containing
fifty rolls OF butter, one from each of fifty
different dairies located On the Eel river, is
o very attractive and worthy display
Dairymen should not fail to examine
this outfit. In vegetable growth, here
is squash 2S inches in dia-
meter beets, seven inches in
diameter and 80 inches in length.
These beets as they lie in the exhibit are
growing at the tops, which the Superin-
tendent, Chauncey Langdon, says is be-
cause things once put into the rich soil of
Humboldt county cannot stop growing
afterward, even If taken out of the ground.
a new kind of beet, of yellow color, and
eight inches in diameter by fourteen long.
known as The Gate Post" is shown. 1t
is stock beet, and thus far its value is not
known for feed purposes by those who are
propagating them. Besides these, onions
133 inches in circumference and mammoth
potatoes are displayed. While in frnt the
exhibit OF apples is exceedingly fine. They
are of large size, good color ana excellent
texture. The same is true of pears and
other kinds OF fruit
Mrs. Percy w. Roberts displays a silk
patchwork Quilt, showing fine handiwork
and artistic taste. A remarkable growth of
orchard grass, first and second crops. is
shown, and, as the result of q recent val
uaole discovery, specimens of graphite are
exhibited by w. II. Roscoe, of Petrolia.
The eXtenslveness of Humboldt's industry
in manufacturing leather is indicated by
display of several classes from the tannery
OF /. Devlin, of Arcata
The full list of exhibits from Humboldt
is as follows:
Vedder's Cheese Factory, three full cream
cheese; cheese, nineteen months old
Russ, Esrly u Williams, FerrdaIe; Fielder
oats, Horace Drake and J. G. Dinsmore
Rohneryille; barley, ". Church, Ferndale:
wheat, Horace Drake, Rohnerville: peas,
A. w. Lehman, R6hnerville; beets of the
Gate-Post variety, J. Lawson, Ferndale;
mangel wu1zel beets, J. Lawson, Fern
dale; potatoes, ten varieties, consisting of
Humboldt reds, white and pink peach
blows, Oregon reds, white star, Dunmore
Proliptat, early rose and Burbank seedlings,
table beets from w. B. Dobbyus, Rohner-
VILE and table carrots from the same; vel
low danvers onions from c. Langdon, Rob
nerville, and 3. L. Wait, Ferndale: toma-
toes from J. Newman, Camp Grant
peppers, two varieties from J. Stegmeyer,
Phlllipsyille; silver prunes from NJ Per-
rott and James Hodge, Rohnerville: also
hungarian .prunes and egg plums of the
yellow variety Bartlett pears from A.
Berding, Ferndale; James Hodge and G.
Langdon, Rohnerville; ounces from A.
BerdinTg, :Ferndale; Mrs. S. Myers, south fork
of Eel river, and ]. Hodge, Rohnerville;
grapes, from Mrs. S. Meyers, South Fork of
Eel river; several varieties of apples, from
James Hodge, Rohnerville; j. Newman
and Mrs. S. Myers, Camp Grant ]
Stegmeyer, South Fork of Eel river; A.
s. Lehman, Van Deusen; wool from six
hocks of Humboldt sheep, furnished by
Christy q Wise, San Francisco; sheaf of
oats seven feet high, from Jerry Dale
bonneville; samples of clover of first and
second growth, from near Ferndale; timo-
thy grass and cheat of magnificent proper
tons a series of Photographic views rep
resenung scenes in the redwoods and log
ging camps, from the studio of S. Grant,
Eureka; deer-horns of several distinct spe-
cles, and representing the growth from the
time they are in the velvet until fully ma
tured; also very fine crazy quilt from Mrs.
Percy Roberts Of Fern5ela