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in compact body, and isfrom two hundred
TO three hundred feet above the Sacra-
mento valley. Its topography is beauti-
fully varied, the land gen.ly nndulating,
and from it is obtained A magnificent
view of the surrounding country. The
olerras 10 the north and east protect from
cold north winds, should such occur; to the
south. for many miles, the eye eresss on rolling
foothills, until the gaze is lost in the
broad .expanse of the valley. To the west
Oroville, with the receding Feather river
meandering toward the sunset, the charm
ing Sacramento valley, with the Coast
Range as background, all unite to form
a landscape picture Of unrivaled beauty
Every acre of it is rich foot-hill soil
susceptible OF the highest degree of culti-
vation, and Yi4l produce all the citrus and
decIdUous fruits ever tried in the State.
The finest oranges, peaches, apricots and
berries are produced. Its sheltered posi-
tion gives it absolute immunity from cold
winds, and the warmth of its charming
wales renders fruit culture absolutely safe
and delightful
BROAD AVENUES LEADING DIRECT TO
Oroville have been laid out through the
tract, and every portion is of easy access,
and within ten minutes drive of the Post
office. Every lot is so surveyed as to give
fine building site and admirable sur
roundings. To men of means, who desire
a home of elegance and luxury, this tract
cannot be too highly praised; and to
those men who have only small means,
and desire quick returns for their
labor, it can be recommended with equal
confidence. Oroville, the county seat,
with its schools, churches and general adj
vantages, is only half mile distant, and
the benefits of home with such educa-
tional facilities and desirable surroundings
cannot be oyerestimated.
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MOUNT IpA OLIVE FARM.
Great Success in One OF the Most Profit
aDie Lines of Horticulture.

Great Success in One of the Most Profit
aDie Lines of Horticulture.
This farm was the first attempt made in
the spring of 1885 to go into the fruit
business near Oroville on an extensive
scale. Even before the now famous Citrus
Association was formed, John C. Gray
brought from the Quito Olive Farm, near
San Jose, 1000 two-year r-old Mission olive
trees, grown from cuttings. These covered
little over twenty acres of land. They
were planted near Wyandotte, about five
miles east of Oroyille, on high. rolling
land, at an elevation of 500 feet He has
since increased his orchard to $500 trees.
All are growing finely, and looking as
fresh, healthy aud strong as any that grow
in Spain or Italy. They are all the way
from foot to eight feet in hight, and re-
quire no water-only good cultivation for
the first few years
1t is conceded that oil made from olives
grown on high valley hills, from five hun
dred to two thousand feet elevation, is by
far the best for table use In the hot foot
hills of the Sierras this tree will reach
perfection and yield enormous crops yearly.
The profit is almost fabulous. The demand
for the oil and the olive is rapidly iucreas-
ing each year. Elwood Cooper stated at the
State Horticultural meeting at Chico on
Wednesday of this week that he sold his oil
as fast as hemade itatS1 25 per bottle, and
could not begin to supply the calls made
on him. That he was preparing to set out
1000 more trees. Reliable reports say
that his orchard yields him net profit of
one thousand dollars per acre 1t is cer-
tain that there is no kind Of horticultural
pursuits that one can go into that will
more surely weld good returns than plant
olives on such lands as the foothills of
! Butte county.
Mr.. Gray stated that in March, 1886,
when he planted the first tree his land
would not bring him S6per acre at Sherifi's
sale; that it would now bring him over
$500 per acre, and he has not expended
S25 per acre TO effect the result lie fur
ther claims that when in bearing the land
| will yield an income on from $1,000 to
$1,000 per acres according to age In fact
that money can hardly buy an olive or
ehard il bearing" The Spanish provert
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Hints About sorses.

/; costs more to keep poor horse than
1t does TO keep Il good one.
Change the food for your horses often
enough to make them relish it.
improper feeding is the cause of nine
out of ten cases Of sickness among horses.
Every time you worry your horses you
shorten their lives and DAYS of usefulness.
Sweat and dust causes the horses shoul-
ders 10 gall. So do poor, i'll fitting collars.
The temperature of water for horses is
not so much of an object as the purity of
it While it is best to have the water
cool it is more important to have it free
from all Impurities.
Mares in foal should have exercise and
moderate work, and under no circum-
stances should they be subjected to harsh
treatment, nor should they ever be al
lowed to go where they would be in danger
of being frightened.
The horse which can plow an acre while
another horse is plowing half an acre, or
that which can carry load of passengers
ten miles while another is going five, in
dependent of all considerations of amqse-
ment, taste, or what is called fancy, is abb
solutely worth twice as much to the owner
as the other
Affection cannot be pounded in. Kind
treatment insures the affection of an ami
NAL, while rough treatment is sure to cause
its hatred.
1t is alike dangerous to other horses and
men to spare the life of glandered horse.
Chambers is highly contagious, incurable
disease, ard, as rule, fatal in the human
subject.
When horses are suffering from the bites
of flies, or stings from other insects, sponge
the parts that cannot be protected by nets
with water, in which insect powder has
been mixed-a tablespoonful to two gall
Ions Of water.
Of two colts similar in disposition and
sense, one may develop into steady and
valuable family horse, while the other
may be vicious, treacherons and unsafe
all because of the difference in the men
handling them.-Meiical Classics.
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Cultivate the nlneberrr.

They are the only ones of the popular
berries, says contemporary. that have
not been improved by cultivation. Mid
dle-aged men can recall the time when the
strawberry and blackberry were rather
poor, commonplace fruit, but they have
been cultivated, grown from seed, and the
result is the toothsome berries which now
adorn our tables. But the huekleberry we
eat now is the same which tickled the
palates of our great-grandfathers. Word
has gone forth to improve this berry; to
grow it in gardens from seed, and select
the variety which gives she best results.
1t Is not generally known, but nearly all
our edible plants and roots were originally
weeds, or of so inferior kind as TO be
scarcely fit for human use. But for count
less generations man has been improving
his environment, but more especially the
grains and fruits upon which he now lives.
| The human palate itself must have been
greatly improved in sensibllity, owing to
the difference between what fruits and
vegetables were and what they are There
are those who think that this process is tc
/ go on, and that other weeds will be turned
into useful plants, and that, by scientific
methods, the quantity of food will at
length be so great that no human being
will ever die OF starvation.
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We leave it to anyone who has visited
this beautiful colony to sav whether there
has been any exasgera,ioa of the truth
or distortion OF facts in the portrayal of the
above pen picture.
THIS COLONY EMBRACES
Within It's limits : 600 acres of land, more
than tw0-thir,is of which j., sufficiently
Level to admit Of easy cultivation and irri-
CATION. More than half Of the land is en-
tirely clear, while the remainder has dot
ted upon its surface groves of large oak
trees, attesilng witnesses TO the great fer
tility Of the soil, which afford pruteetion
from the rays OF the MONDAY -un aud make
the landscape more beautiful
At the date of this writing the Palermo
Colony Is not one year old. On January
Q 1888, the survey of the first subdivision
had not keen completed, although the first
company wisely decided that the best
method Of disposing of its lands would be
to make partial offerings at time, in sep
arate subdivisions cf from 1000 70 1000
acres each which would enable those who
were unable to make an early selection to
find desirable tracts in the new additions
as they were made.
THE THIRD SUBDIVISION
Has Just been completed, and this with the
unsoid lots in Subdivisions Nos and 2.
embraces just as good land as any that has
been sold. As soon as the company feels
justified in doing 50. the remainder of the
colony will be subdivided and offered for
sac in like manner.
If one who had heen at The spot one wear
ago, where the Two great avenues of Pal
ermo, Railroad and Gibraltar. now center.
could be brought back blindfolded, except
for the natural beauties OF the spot that
might linger with him, he would never
think what place he was in. There we're
then no beautiful avenues, splendidly
graded, leading out in all directions. A
plowmap, or perhaps a shepherd, stood
where now stands the depot building.
There was nothing whore now busy work
men are now completing the $l2 900 build
ing, called the Palermo Villa which is
to furnish protection IN American labor "
and rest for the weary. There WIS moth
ing where now stands the fine buiiding in
which the Office OF the
PALERMO LAND AND wArEE COMPANY
Is located, and the lar.e store of J. Z.
Schram; there was nothing at that point
which is now, perhap>, the noisest in Pa
lermo, for the planning mill Of BraseIton &
Atkins is busy concern and is rapidly
turning out work, but mol fast enough for
the increasing demihds of the place.
There was no need then for a public
school, but now, from the families of set
Z 4 i.
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NEW PUBLICATIONS.

There is some delightful literature aoout
the Indians IN the November Wide
Awake In MIs Upton's s. Children Of The
White House, fine chapter is given con-
corning the Household of John Quincy
Adams" Another ar,icle is entitled Some
Children or Modern PaipteIsn and sives
reprodu 'tions II many child lood pictures
by emipent tngH>h and French pajniers
: The Wild do ssman, Count Chandor," is
an account by Madame Radford de Meiss-
ner OF tne famous daring Hungarian Count
ana his horses with reproductions OF paint
iDgs of his exploits Rose Hawthorne
Lsthrop has story called "a New Birth
day" Caught in Snowstorm. bv c. 5.
Messenger, is an exciting adventure of two
children who went to see the "Mikado.r
Harlan Fl. Ballard has an article on {" Ye
knightly Game of Chess" There are
mauy other good things: Concerning
Cats, Inside al Outline" The Author
of Paul and Virginia. " :. Veneer Women ~
" Irish Crickets,' Who Slit the Black
smiths Apron =" Moon Pets, :. The Little
Rebels Song, y Prize Questions, etc. D..
Loihrop, Co, Boston.
Among the talks in TABLE Talk for No.
vember is Mrs. Rorer's Housekeeping In
quiry Department, which is full of useful
suggestions; dissertation on the Orange"
ny Joseph w olttoni How to Live on q
Thousand a Year. Fashionable Luncheon
and Iea Toilets" by Tiliie May Forney;
Ancient Thanksgiving Days:r Thanks
giving Dinner" How Mrs Ruskin Saved
Fuel aud Kept Warm" Fashionable
Crazes;" "Ethefs New Home;n Decorative
Hints" Culinary Maxmsp and Thanks
giving Problem" solvers of which will
be entitled TO prize Table Talk Publish
ing Company, Philadelphis.
Maria Parloa, the celebrated teacher in
the culinary art, Principal of the School of
Cooking, Boston, and author of several
books upon good cooking and good house
work, has issued a work entitled Miss
Parloa's New Cook Book" which, it is safe
TO say, is superior to any of her previous
popular publications. II consists OF nearly
sixty pages in large auarto, pamphlet form,
and is printed by Estes & Lauriat, Boston.
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CITY OF OROyILLE.
Thermaiito, Palermo, Pleasant Valley,
villa Verona and Other Colonies.

Thermatito, Palermo, Pleasant Valley,
villa Verona and Other Colonies.
Oroville, the county seat and principal
commercial center of the county, is located
on the south side of the Feather river,
three miles below the junction of all its
branches, just where it ceases to be a noun
tain torrent and calms into steady stream.
The river is spanned by a most excellent
bridge, free from tolls, afording direct
communication with Thermalito colony,
on the opposite bank, and the immense ag-
ricultural area Immediately adjoining.
The town is well built, the business houses
mainly substantial brick structures, and its
residences eommodious, many of which are
OF handsome architectural design, while
every door yard is a conservatory of semi
tropical plants and orange trees in profuse
bearing.
There is considerable wholesale trade
with the mountain mining towns, and the
freighting to these towns by the six, eight,
ten and twelve-horse teams, over the noun
tain grades, with their large wagons and
back-actions," remind the pioneer of the
freighting scenes before the era of rail-
roads. These trains 90 up the mountain
roads loaded with merchandise and mining
machinery and return with sugar-pine
lumber, which is being exported TO sash
and door factories 10 Australia.
Many of the mercantile firms are pio-
neers in trade at this point and number
among the most wealthy and substantial
citizens. The Oroville Bank is one of the
stable financial institutions and Joins with
the business interests of the place in every
spirit Of enterprise looking to the develop
ment of the locality The moral plane of
the people is equal to that of the East, and
Its schools and churches are among the
best on the coast.
TOPOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE
Between the valley proper and the
mountains extends wide belt of country
called the foothills, which is now attract
ing great deal of attention, on account of
the peculiar salubrity of the climate, and
the varied character of the soil, and it
is in one of these most naturally favored
localities that the city is situated. Here
the climate. strange to say, is even milder,
both in winter and in summer, than in the
valley. 1t is the natural home of the
citrus fruits, olives, oranges, lemons and
lines, while olives and deciduous fruits
grow in quantity and quality unexcelled.
A country that will grow roses and tender
plants that bloom in theop air for twelve
months in the year, does not need much
said in praise of her climate; but for those
who wish to make comparisons, the fol-
lowing table of temperatures, as compiled
by the United States Signal Service Bureau
will afford abundant opportunity to show
the advantages of the 0roville neighbor-
hood over some of the most celebrated
climatic resorts of the world:
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ion will now be built 160 feet in length.
ga feet in width, 16-foot walls, and an
arched roof AZ feet in hight. 1t will in
close five full-bearing orange trees. there
being not less than 500 on any of them.
(These same trees last year bore from fifty
to one hundred oranges each)
BRILLIANT ILLUMINATION.
To add to the splendor of the occasion,
the management will have electric lights,
both arc and incandescent, in such number
and position that every crook and GRANNY
of the immense structure will be made to
stand forth in light as though blazoned by
the MONDAY sun.
The Excelsior Brass and Reed band. of
Oroville, one of the best drilled and most
competent in the State north of Sacra-
mento, have been engaged to furnish con-
cert music, day and evening, throughout
the whole of the fair.
VARIETY OF THE EXHIBITS.
This fair is intended to show, not only
citrus products, but every variety of the
agricultural, horticultural and mineral re-
sources of the whole county, and to CON
vey to the visitor, especially those from
the east of the Sierras, an idea of the vast
ness and superiority of single county. as
over that which might be gathered from
every quarter of the known world outside
of the favored State of California.
Among the mineral exhibits will be
fac-simile of $4,000 gold brick being
made to-day by the Spring Valley Gold
Company, of Cherokee, twelve miles north
east of Oroville, the result of a thirty days
run.
CoNTRAsTED CLIMATES.
What must be the surprise of those who
have just arrived from the land of ice and
snow, with overcoats and ftrs, overshoes
and mittens to be brought face to face with
a midwinter exhibit of this kind, carried
on practically in the open air Surely, if
We be allowed to answer the query, it can
not but be that if the party is unpreiudiced
and sane, the desire viii be for a perma-
nent residence among such surroundings.
To attract the attention of desirable
immigration is the primary object of the
exposition. the secondary being of a gala
week, a season Of social intercourse and en-
joyment, and holiday rest from the worry
and cares of business toll after finishing the
harvest gatherings Of the year.
STREET DECORATIONS.
The city will also put on her holiday
attire, and business houses and private
residences will be profusely decorated
with bunting, flowers, and citrus fruits to
be woven on wires in fanciful and emble-
matte designs, and as every block in the
city has dozens of trees loaded with bright
yellow oranges, the effect can be but one of
delightful novelty and charming sensa-
tions. The whole atmosphere of the
place will therefore be that of the harvest
feast, when nature justifes and inclination
invites to the joyous celebration of char
vest home" Such will be the spirit per-
vading the whole region of Oroville in
fair week, and as the people viii be "filled"
with this enthusiasm, it will be the most
inviting field of relaxation in the State,
where one can literally bid ''duIl care be-
gone"
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TRANSPORTATION.

The California Northern Railroad
branches off from the California and Ore
gon Railroad at Marysville and runs to
Oroyille via Moore's Station in the county.
This road has recently greatly improved
its facilities for accommodation, having
during the present season added to the
rolling stock two new modern locomotives
at cost of over s1s,G00 and two new pas
senger coaches at cost of over $4,000
Under the present arrangement it is posi-
BILE for residents to leave Oroville at 6
o'clock in the morning and spend five
hours in the middle of the day in Saera-
mento and return to Oroville the same
evening, reaching home before o'clo K
P. NJ. Or, going the other way, by leaving
on the II P. NJ train, reach San Francisco
the next morning at Z, and after spending
eleven hours in the metropolis, reach
home the next night, being away from
home but twenty-six hours. Surely few
localities are so highly favored as is this
City. The road is also being extended to
Knights Landing. on the Sacramento
river. where it will form through connec-
tion with the Southern Pacific Railroad
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ADVANTAGES THE oRovILLE COL
oNY SYSTEM OFFERS.
Cursory Review of the Topography, CHI
mate. Growth, Industry and
General Prosperity of the
Section and City.

For a quarter of century it has been a
demonstrated fact that orange trees flour
ished in Butte county, and few years
later, when the trees yielded bounteous
harvests Of golden globes, that the fruit
was of superior quality. The first tree,
planted thirty years ago at Bidwelps Bar,
then the county seat, is now of lordly pro-
portions, producing an average of over
1000 oranges per year.
When the county seat was removed to
Oroville, in -, several of the residents.
in beautifying their grounds, planted seed
ling orange trees in their door yards as
novelties, little dreaming that from the
result Of desire for ornamentation would
spring vast industry, now coming rapidly
to the front, and which will in the near
future eclipse all other industries common
to the section.
The trees grew thriftily. and in due
time rewarded the planters with bounteous
yields Of the seeding fruit. The pioneers
in this accidental development, for such it
really was, were Judges Warren T. Sexton
and C. F. Lott, of the Second Judicial Dis
trict c. H Wilcox and DR.. T. j. jenkins.
The surprising growth of these trees
led hundreds of others to beautify their
yards in like manner and not only in Oro-
vile, but in scores of other places in this
county, orange trees were planted. At
various homes at Wyandotte, seven miles
southeast; at the Campbell ranch, FIVE miles
north; at Fences ranch, twelve miles
north; at Foreman's ranch, twelve miles
northeast of Oroville, and at numerous
other places in those localities, liberal
paintings were made. In the towns of
Chico, Biggs, Gridley, Bangor and Dayton
numerous trees were planted and are now
bearing, and at the home of C. w. Harris,
some distance above Chico, a grove of
forty orange trees is bearing abundantly,
with lemons, lines and olives growing on
adjacent lands, while still farther up, in
Butte Creek canyon, John Nicholl has
orange, lemon and lime trees all in profilse
bearing.
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hath it that /" An olive orchard is better

hath it that -An olive orchard is better
than a gold mine1
Mr.. Gray is extending hrs field, year
after year, believing it to be the best in
yestment he can make. His essay at the
State Horticultural Society at Chico this
week showed that the olive wa grow in
these foothills withoat irrigation, and
when this becomes generally known every
foot OF available land will be bought and
planted. At present there are hundreds of
acres Of excellent land in the vicinity Just
as good that can be has from $50 to $50
per acre. The advice of those residing in
the foothills is to be sure to get LAID on
which trees, chaparral and bush grow 1t
will cost something to clear it, they say,
but where trees have grown trees viii con-
tinae 10 grow.
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THE COMING FAIR,
orovi'le Invites the People to a Citrus
Harvest Feast.

Orovi'le Invites the People to a Citrus
Harvest Feast.
Following directly after the last citrus
fair came a couple of weeks Of the coldest
weather ever experienced in the history of
the State. Snow actually fell in numerous
localities, and in many places ice formed
on pools of still water to the thickness of a
window pane. This occurred from Los
Angeles on the south to Shasta on the
north. Then went up great hue and cry
from the south that citrus fairs in North
ern California we're at an end for the next
ing under their Jealous delusion to so
prejudice opinion in regard to the northern
citrus section. as to again attain to the dis
tInction they claimed as the only citrus
belt, and which was wrested from them,
when in early December, 1887, the
North, with her luscious golden fruits,
carried their ripened citrus exhibit di-
rectly TO Los Angeles, six weeks
before that boasted country dared to
talk of such an exposition. But jealous
assertions do not constitute facts, and to
controyert the dissemination Of erroneous
ideas, and to contrast climatic advantages
by ocular demonstration, is the main in
centive for holding the approaching fair at
Oroyille. This promises to be the most
WONDERFUL CITRUS FRUIT EXHIBIT
Ever made under one roof, and Butte
county can accomplish that object if it
makes the effort. The date chosen for the
opening Of the fair has been set for Mon
day night, December 18th, and viii con-
tinue up to and including Saturday, De-
cember 22d- The exposition will, as in
1887, be made in an oiled canvas taberna-
Gle. pitched in the Courthouse yard, but
will be very greatly increased in size and
arranged with more conveniences.
The row of shade trees that prevented
larger stretch OF canvas last yea has just
been cut down, snd the frame of the pavil-