Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-09
THE STATE FAIR-HoW ALLCAN HELP.

In another column is extended refer
,ence to the State Fair for 1888, and the
preparations being made in various coun-
ties for the exposition of next September,
together with some valuable suggestions
concerning exhibits. Several counties have
already entered upon the work of prepar-
ing for the department of county exhibits,
and it is to be hoped that many more will
take like interest. At the coming fair
there will be larger attendance of East
ern people than at any former exhibition,
and their attention will naturally turn
first and most to the exhibits of the coun-
ties, for in them they will expect to find
the productive capacity of California's
counties fairly illustrated There were ten
competing county expositions in the State
Fair last year; there ought to be fifteen or
twenty this season. 1t is one of the best
paying Investments to which the people of
a county can give something of their
energy and skill, to collect AMI arrange
these public object lessons They tend
directly to enhance the values of all lands
in the counties exhibiting, by inducing
settlement of new people in sections thus
advertised, and the investment of more
capital in the industries of the several
counties. Whoever gives a day or two of
labor in securing exhibits for tt, county
department, or who advances means 10
defray expenses incident to the setting up
Of q county exhibit at the State Fair, con-
tributes directly and materially TO one of
the best and most direct means of adver-
Using the State and advancing its indus
trial and productive interests. There ought
to be constant growth and expansion of
public spirit in this matter. The people
who are able to render assistance should
feel that it is duty, as well as means to
gain, to place exhibits of California indus
try upon exhibition before anxiouSly in
curing strangers and homeseekers
A good work can be done in this matter
by Sacramentans. There is certain and in
localization of the fair with the
Capital City. Wherever the exposition
might be held, it could not and ought not
to be wholly delocalized 1t is therefore,
a right and proper thing for this city to
take special pride in the exposition, and
for its people to interest themselves es-
pecially is these annual successes. One
method that will contribute to them, and
which, we fear, is very little employed, is
personal correspondence with those abroad
concerning the fair and its main features.
There are few men or women in this city
who have not acquaintaneeship of cor
dial character with producers and people
of prominence in agricultural and other
industries in the several counties With
these they can easily communicate, and
with entire appropriateness solicit them to
contribute of the products of the soil
and Of industry to the exhibits of their
counties for the State Fair, the
value Of such contribution being pointed
out, and the necessity for individual ac-
tigity in the matter to secure action in the /
counties being made prominent. Such adj |
v0cacy will be forcible and effective, be- |
cause philosophical and exerted in the
interest of success that contributes to the |
benefit of all the counties parti :ipating in !
the State Agricultural Society's annual /
exposition. In this way it is matter of .
ease for the people of Sacramento to
second the efforts of the State
Board Of Agriculture, and do it great
service, and contribute largely to the sue
cess Of the approaching exposition. A
thousand men and women in this city adj
dressing a thousand friends in the interior
upon this subject in candid manner and
pointing out the need for united and ener-
,etic action in advertising the State at the
Fair in the very midst Of the highest cur
,ent of immigration, viii exercise a potent
influence and be more effective than all Il
general appeals possible to be made What
5 needed in this matter, as in all Others
( similar nature, is individual action by
he many; organization in the counties for
he purpose of collecting, shipping and
county exhibits; stimulation of
friendly competitive spirit between the
,rodueers for the premiums offered and
of public spirit and local pride
elative 10 the claims each county makes
md can establish by the testimony of It's
Exhibits and these ends can be attained
y personal appeals. Upon this line, to
.eltain extent the State Society acted last
-ear, in sending competent gentleman to
-isit the producers of the interior aud