Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-12-19
In oRANGELAND.
GREAT SUCCESS OF CITRUS COL.
TURE IN BUTTE.
Orange Groves on Every Hand
Thernalito and Palermo Colo
nies-A Grand Exhibit.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO TEE REoOrD-uslos.l

oRovILns, December 1ssa--During last nigh.
and to-day the town has filled up very rapidly
with people from all parts of the State, who
come to attend the Citrus Fair Hundreds of
people passed in and out of the pavilion and
viewed the grand exhibition during the DAY.
Manygnade trips in carriages to the neighbor-
ing colonies of Thermalito and Palermo. The
former is located jsst across the Feather river
from oroville, and is visited by almost every
one who comes here. Those who visited It one
year ago and again at this time are surprised at
the wonderful Improvements made during that
tine
OTHER THRIVING COLONIES.
The orange grove of the OroviIe Citrus Asso-
citation is now in bearing, and new groves have
been planted iii every direction. The elegant
Bella Vista Hotel, built at a cost of s IS 0c0 is
now nearly completed, and some twenty houses
have been erected during the year. The whole
place gives evidence of prosperity and brill
Palermo also shows rapid and substantial i'm
proyement. 1t is situated some five miles from
OFoville, on the road toward MarysviIle.
ORANGES EVERYWHERE.
oroville presents gala appearance tonight
The whole town is citrus exhibition, there be-
ing scarcely a business place that does not
make a display of orange. The crop of this
fruit is much larger this Year than ever before
and is now being marketed All of the oranges
are clean and bright, and there is no evidence
in any quarter of scale or other parasites. The
people are justly proud of the magnificent dis
play they are making, but there is very little
buuon-holing by real estate agents, there ap-
peAring to be an understanding that the pro
ducts of Butte county, as exhibited in the Pa
vilion, shall speak for themselves.
THE PAVILION DISPLAY.
In the RECORD UNION there was given to-day a
general description of the exhibit. complete
aud detailed description cannot be given before
to morrow as new displays are being put in
continually, and all will not be in order before
that time. When everything is in order il is
safe to say that ii will be the finest citrus dis
play ever made in California. Almost every
section of the county is represented, and each
contributes something of interest, the whole
| showing the wonderful resources possessed by
| the county.
| SECOND NIGHT-FEATUREs OF THE EXHIBIT.
| Tonight the pavilion is damned with people,
and all are delighted with the display. The
| train from Marysville brought three coaches
| filed with strangers Among them was Oscar
| Flint Superintendent of the Permanent Exhibit
| at Sacramento. who comes to make ARRANGEMENTS
to have portion of the display, after the close
| of the fair, placed on exhibition in Sacramento.
! At eight O'Clock, Senator A. F. Jones, intro
que E Il. fricp, of proville, who a9J ressed the
| assemhlage, He was followed by Rev. ]. ".
| Brier in an eloquent and stirring speech. Both
! speakers were enthusiastic over the wonderful
| development of Butte county. and called it the
| banner county of the best State in the Union.
The Oroville band furnished music during the
evening, and the quartet club gave several
| selections.
The feature of the evening was tableaux at
the west end OF the pavilion, where the COM
mittee's magnificent representation of the Rock
| of Ages is situated. A great cross some twenty
feet in hight, stands above a pile of granite
rocks. By means of a slowly moving elevator,
| Misses Mary and Alice Cox were raised, and
chung to the cross. while the quartet sang the
| Rock of Ages" The effect was very fine and
was warmly commended, though the scene was
so solemn that the apprec alton was shown by
dead silence, instead of applause The concep-
ton and execution OF this beautiful display was
| by d. X. Perkins. An immense crowd is ex-
pected tomorrow. The weather is simply de-
ightiul, and Oroville is in luck.