Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-01-07

feet Ih1S pavilion Is erected on the Court
House square and beside the Court House
itself. The square is well filed with heavi-
ly-laden orange trees, and aunique feature
Of the show is, that within the pavilion it.
self are i've Of these orange trees, % feet
high, loaded with ripe fruit They afford
ocular evidence of the citrus belt While
there is almost every product Imaginable in
the pavilion, all from Butte County, or
anges and lemons are the predominating
feature. Oranges to the right of us, oranges
to the left of us, oranges above us and or
anges around us, In fact we are surround
ed and surrender at discretion. There are
said to be zoe, 600 oranges in the building,
d1spiayed In almost every conceivable
artistic manner. There are a number of
bins OF open wire network, well filed, one
of which contains 4, 500 oranges
A noticeable thing IN the exhibit is
church building, Sx10 with symmetrical
" shaped steeple, II feet high. This church
the former, and 5000 are used in the
structure 1t has four windows, is lighted
with gas, contains church organ, and
every evening choir of young ladies enter
the orange edifcs and favor the audience
with church music. Another novelty is a
harp, 456 feet, composed of $50 oranges
and 100 lemons An odd conceit is
an old-fashioned beehive composed of
oranges Two cylinders, or wheels Of
oranges, revolving in opposite direc-
lions, represent the bees gong in and out
OF the hive The hive is surmOunted by q
horn of plenty, at the small end of which a
revolving wheel of oranges represents the
bees pouring in the fruits Of their labor, and
at the large end of the horn the result is dis
played by huge revolving cornucopia
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
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tastefully constructed. 1t is 20 feet front
by 16 high, and 8, 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
pewildering in its immensely. There are
oranges 10 inches in circumference and
other things in proportion. There are
apples in profusion, OF course, pears, figs,
Japanese persimmons, raislns, pomegran-
ates, shaddocks, lines, olives, almonds,
English, California and Eastern black wal
nuts, pecans, 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, but this is no
novelty here, however 1t impresses the
strangers. To me the greatest novelty was
holding, what might practically be termed
an open air fruit fair, in mid-winter
The citizens here demonstrate that this
can be done by the stubborn fact that they
have none 1t, and how 1T can be done ia
dem onstrated by two points combined:
First, the rich soil, and second, by compar-
ing the average annual mean Temperature
of this place with the same in the most
famous citrus regions OF the old world.
Hore are few OF the figures:
AVERAGE ANNUAL MEAN TEMPERATURE
Ftse 3sy
Malta Sicily Oroville Cal.
WAR OF EMULATION
The rivalry which exists between differ
emit sections OF the State led some news
paper joker to print the statement that the
people of Oroville had sent to Los Angeles
Tor TO i've car 10 DIS OF oranges to exhibit at
their fair. The Oroville papers retort that
the fruit at Los Angeles will not be ripe for
a month. point to the growing trees with
ripe fruit in the pavilion, and wind UP by
claiming prices of land to be only one-fourth
what they are in Southern California, while
every thing, that grows there, grows here
In still greater profusion. And thus a wordy
and quite amusing Ito strangely war is in
full blast on the Pacific Coast STATISTICS
of the killed and wounded will be devel-
oped by the census report of 1890. I eX-
poet other cities will take up the cud-
gels and winter citrus fairs will be-
come as much q standard Californian
production as toboggan slides are in
the East If any of them equal this initial
exhibit OF Butte county, they may have to
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 continuous outdoor holiday, with
great throngs in attendance The pilgrims
are asked on all hands, what they think Of
it The waiter at my hotel table extracted
my opinion, as he served me, and as agreed
with his views, it proved more successful
tip" than hard cash and he could not
thereafter do too much for me- Even the
sprinkling of Chinese have warmed up suf-
tciently to chip in 1.-TWO bits" for admission
TO the pavilion, and when the point is
reached which makes Chinaman spend any
money, you can calculate that popular en-
thuSiasm must be at blood heat