The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-06
a q u building, sxto with a symmetrical

ehnreh building, sxt0 with symmetrical
" shaped steeple., II feet high This ehifgch
y composed OF oranges and lemons, chiefly
the former, and 5000 are used in the
saacture 1t has four windows, is lighted
with gas, contains church organ, and
every evening a choir of young ladies enter
the orange edlfice and favor the. audience
with church music Another novelty is a
harp, 4x6 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-
tons, represent the bees going In and out
OF the bve. The hive is surmounted by q
norm OF plenty, at the small end of which
| 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.
Inc whole is operated by water-power, in
genlousiy concealed from the spectator
Chico, one of the county towns "a miles
| from here, has an orange cottage most
tastefully constructed 1t is 20 feet front
by 16 high, and s, 1000 seeding oranges are
used in the Structure; which is adorned with
mirrors and lace curtains.
The exhibit of fruits throughout is fan
taste and unique in it's presentation, and
beWlldering in its immensely There are
oranges Is inches in circumference and
| other things in proportion. There are
apples IN profusion, of course, pears. figs,
japanese persimmons faisins; 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 it 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 If, and how it can be done is
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
Here are q few of the fgures
AVERAGE ANNUAL MEAN TEMPERATURE
Nice France 4;ei; Malaga Spain f5
florence Italy. ..5S Madeira Islands. Ifs
Malta, Sicily Oroville Cal. ........e 5
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
for i've car loods Oh oranges to exhibit at
their fair The Oroville papers 1etort 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 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-
pect other cities will take up the cud-
gels and winter citrus fairs will be-
come as much 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
Tt 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 Iagreed
with his views, it proved q 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 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 OF blood heat