Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-06
ORANGE EXHIBITS.
what the Up.COuntry People are
Doing in this Respect.

Doing In this Respect.
EDITOR HERALD-lt seems strange
to an Eastern man to find here in San
Francisco exhibits of ora igeI and
other fruits and getables from Sut.
ter, Pla er and other northern coun-
ties of this State, and no exhibit from
Los Angeles or any other southern
co, ty. Had it not been nv good
fortune to have visited Los Angeles
before | did the northern part of the
State, l might have been misled by
exhibits of oranges shown in a store
on MONTGOMERY street, in this city,
and marked, ''grnwn at Palermo,
Butte county; beats Los Angeles ;
earlier and better" But upon ex-
amining the fruit l lou it very
thick-skinned, and OF but little flavor,
while every orange bore upon It's skin
the marks of having heen rubbed
against the branches of he trre by
high winds. l saw several exhibits,
and was t,ld that Southern California
could not compare with Northern
California in the production of the
orange or the grape, and that Los An
geles dare not send an exhibit to San
Franc SEQ to be shown alongside of
the exhibits from the northern coun-
ties. assumed ignorance of Southern
Califo MIA, and was told more false
hoo Is about that portion of the State
than would fill "a good-sized volum
Last evenings Post contained the fol-
lowing which was shown me by no
less than three Northern Citrus Belt
boome's:
rament II. has just returned from a three
weeks visit TO Los Angeles. He says he
does not blame the people of that set tion
for laying a. embargo ON the weather re-
ports during the recent cold snap, as there
was not pleasant day while he was there.
He says he saw ON Spring street, during the
freez', ice three anu three-quarter inches IT,
thickness. He says that people interested
pany formerly Porter Bros admitted to
him that great damage had been done to the
orange crop. Water pi pes were burst by the
GO d in many pla, es There was no snow
in the city, but an abundance of it fell
within tn zee miles. The old settlers declared
that they had never experienced anything
like the weather, and 1t was common
complaint that the Eastern people had
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Now, it s. happened that was in
Los Angeles during the recent cold
snap" above referred to, and l was
living on Spring street, where the
writer of the above says that he saw
ice 3A inches thick; and can sa>
that if Robert N"rthop says that he
saw ice Of that thickness in Los An
geles City he is an unqualified liar. l
was out every morning during the |
cold snap, and I examined every
waterproof along the street and in |
small pvols of very shallow water, l |
one morning, Che coldest) found ice |
nearly a half of an inch in thickness,
and it never froze any thicker. l
never heard of any water pipes burst
ing at Los Angeles, nor did anyone
but Mr.. Northop. l was in more |
than dozen orange orchards in the |
vicinity of Los Angeles after the
freeze, and saw no evidence of any
damage from frost. Even the tender !
shoots of the young growth were I'M
touched by frost. One week ago to-
day l left Los Angeles for Sacramento |
and Oroville. At Los Angeles the |
young gum trees showed no damage |
from frost. From Stockton to Sacra-
mento, at Sacramento, and from there |
to Oroville every gum tree saw had
all it's leaves killed by the frost. In
the park here at San Francisco the |
same thing is to be seen. Orange |
trees are so scarce ON the route trav-
e $ las to be rarity, bnt on the few |
saw all the young shoots were killed
as by fire.
Now, think that in justice to the
Eastern peotle who are bringing
millions into this State, Los Angeles |
county should have an exhlbif in San |
Francisco presided over by one or two
reliable men to whom we tenderfeet |
could apply for counsel and infofma-
tion. The reason | have written this
letter is to ask the people of Los An
geles and Southern California, in
justice to us, and in justice to them
selves, to have agents here, and some
exhib of their products, that all men
may judge for themselves, and not
find out too late that they have been
deceived by the unscrupl. GUS real
estate boomers whose only resource is
unmitlgated ing. All men can not
aft ri to do as did, travel all over
the Sta pefpre selecting home, aud
if you people in the South would show
Eastern people whs you have, nearly
everyone would do as intend to do,
buy home in Los Angeles county.
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