Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-09
THE STATE FAIR.
PREPARATIONS BEING MADE IN
VARIOUS COUNTIES.
Prospects of the Best Fair Ever Held
Neutrality-suspicious. for Prepar-
ing County Exhibits.

ing County Exhibits.
Already active operations have begun in
several of the counties of the State in their
preparations for exhibits by counties at
the coming State Fair. as will be seen by
articles quoted below from the Chico and
Red Bluff dailies.
The time for holding the State Fair for
1858 is rapidly drawing near, and those To-
calities which are to avail themselves of
the advantages offered TO make exhibits
should be making the necessary prepara-
tons. The Board of Directors offer in
creased premiums for this year. The in
terest relative to the fair among all classes
of people in the State seems greater aud
more general than ever before, and the
exhibits and attendance promise to be
larger than ever.
For the past four years cash premiums
have been offered tor county exhibits, and
the displays made have been the marked
features of the fairs and have attracted the
widest attention. These county exhibits
have proved the most effective means OF
advertising the resources, Developments
and advantages of the different sections.
COUNTY EXHIBITS.
Many counties in the past have made
large and attractive displays of the pro-
ducts of their soils, forests, mines and
mills, and these displays were seen by tens
of thousands of people from all parts of
the country, and they were thoroughly and
widely advertised by the whole press of
the coast, with the result of a large influx
of home-seekers, health hunters and CAPT
talists seeking investment, and increased
population, trade, wealth and production.
For the past three years the people OF
Placer county have made large and varied
exhibits, aud to-day no other county in the
State Is enjoying such prosperity and max
ing such phenomenal advancement. The
Grange at Lodi, for the past two years, has
been especially active in making exhibits
of the products of northern San Joaquin
county, and remarkable development of
tree-planting in the Mokelumne valley in
the past six months has followed. 1t
promises greater results for that locality
than anything heretofore undertaken. The
same may be said of each county that has
in the past awaited itself of the opportunity
to thus thoroughly advertise the products
CT its soil.
The exhibits of the counties are seen
during the fair by more than fifty thousand
different people, and they are fully de-
scribed by the press of the State, and espe-
cially so by the press of Sacramento and
San Francisco. In no other way, by the
same expenditure of money and labor, can
the counties receive so widespread an adj
vertisement, and in no other way can their
resources be so effectively shown to so
many people.
A small effort on the part of each of the
counties will make an attractive display of
their farm products, and the result in at
tracing settlers and capital will exceed
their most sanguine expectations.
The Directors would suggest that a
County Committee be appointed, with
auxiliary committees in each township
where desirable, in each school district ;
and that printed or written directions for
preparing the different articles for exhibit
be distributed to each producer in the
county.
Last year Governor Waterman and four
other leading citizens of the State were ap-
pointed to award the premiums, end they
,, made an elaborate report upon the exhibits
of each OF the ten competing counties, and
their resources, and the advantages they
offer for settlement. This report is printed
| in the annual report of the Society, which
goes TO every part of the civilized world,
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| form, and will be extensively distributed.
The same course Will be pursued this year
A committee of able and distinguished men
| will be appointed, and the counties exhib-
ing will receive a full, complete and COM
prehensive notice, which will have a wide
publication
WISE STEP.
For the purpose of calling attention to
this important matter the Directors have
commissioned DIR. Fl. Latham to visit the
various counties and confer with the people,
to whom they respectfully urge the i'm
portance of this subject.
The premium lists are now ready, and
will be sent, upon application, TO any part
of the country
The following suggestions for preparing
county exhibits have been sent out
I'm order to make an exhibit at the COM
ing State Fair, which will fully represent
the development and progress already
made, and the advantages and resources
which our country offers to the home
seeker now coming TO this coast. YOU must
have concerted and organized action. You
should have County Central Committee,
with enough of the members residing in
the county seat to form q working quorum,
and subcommittee in each township and
school district.
" The work OF preparing exhibits should
be commenced at once, SO that all the diff
ferent kinds of fruit and vegetables. in their
season may be used tor exhibition.
Strawberries, goosebsrries blqckberries.
raspberries and currants should be put up
in glass at once, and they will be fine ad
dition to any exhibit.
Specimens of all the grasses should be
gathered when they have reached their
growth. and dried in dark places. so as 10
retain their green color.
"Sheaves of grain of all kinds should be
prepared, each in its season. Ii will he
almost impossible to get too many sneci-
mems of grain in sheaves as thew make n
snowy exhibit of themselves. and can be
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