Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-26
PLUCKY PLACER.
AN ABUNDANCE OF WATER FOR EVERY
ACRE OF ARABLE LAND.
A Citrus Fair to be Held in San Fran
cisco, Commencing on De-
cember 9Th.

It's foothills are in the warm belt, It's rail-
road facilities unequaled and its irrigation
facilities unsurpassed on the coast.
Besides her soil, water and climate
Placer county has another requisite that
will always keep her in the lead, and
that is. citizens of intelligence aware of
their heritage and men of coin who are Dot
backward in unloosening their purse
strings when anything for public interest
is to be pushed forward.
The Placer County Board of Trade is
composed of thorough business men who
know the value of such an organization
and push it for all it is worth. When they
hold meeting at the county seat it is not
| one where bare quorum is present, but
the business orchardists and Changers turn
out en- masse and assist in holding up each
others hands, The result is to-day that
Placer county, from Roseville to Towles,
works so thoroughly in harmony that the
Board of Trade works for the entire COM
munities' interest with as thorough a
knowledge of all their needs and require
ments as they would were it one vast indi-
vidual estate. There are no jealousies or
rayed against each other, but they pull to-
gether as one man for the good of the
whole.
The remarkable strides that the county
has made in the past few years in the
growth and sale of fruits has revealed to
them the fact that within its confines can
be raised enough fruits to supply the coast
and make immense shipments 70 the East.
Yesterdays MEETING.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Board of Trade was held yesterday at Au-
burn. Large delegations were in attend
ance from Roseville, Rocklin, Penryn,
| Loomis, Newcastle, Dutch Flat, Lincoln
and Colfax.
The trains that arrived between the
hours of II and P. NJ brought from these
localities over one hundred orchardists and
vlnyardists They marched from the
depot down to the city, headed by the
Newcastle band playing America, " in front
of which was sturdy Granger carrying the
stars and stripes. They marched through
the principal streets, and then to the Court
House, where some three hundred farmers
had assembled. Many could not get in
side of the building, and the doors and
windows were occupied by those who de-
sired to take part in the proceedings.
The meeting was called to order by ]. ?.
| Whitney, the Chairman. After reading the
minutes of the preceding session the Sec
rotary stated that the Board of Trade was
in debt $3.50 and the treasury was de-
pleted.
Don't let little thing like that bother
you,n remarked the Chairman, and draw
ing out blank check-book, made out
draft for the full amount and donated it to
the Board, remarking that pay as you go
! was a good motto.
| Mr.. Whitney then suggested that it was
good time to hold Citrus Fair in San
| Francisco Placer county oranges were
now ripe, and daily shipments were being
made, and he thought the citizens of the
| county should have local pride i'll pre-
| senting at the metropolis q citrus exhibit
| that at this season of the year was impos-
| sible for any other section of the coast and
| equal to anything Florida could produce.
We have the fruit, and all that is required
! is a little labor and few dollars to put it
in execution.
He said Placer should also have fine
exhibit in California on Wheels" put
there regardless of expense.
| Speaking of Oroville, he said Placer
should also try not to be outdone in their
exhibit in that town, to be held on the 9Th
| of January. 1t was some two or three
weeks too late for Placer county, as almost
| the entire crop would be marketed before
| that time.
Some fifteen or twenty members made
addresses from the different parts of the
county, many having with them speci-
mems of oranges, large, ripe and golden in
color.
1t was finally put to a vote and carried
that Placer county should hold citrus
fair in Platt's Hall commencing on the
| twelfth of next month, two weeks from
next Thursday and for that purpose the
sum of 81 500 be appropriated.
1t was resolved also that s., 500 be appro-
priated for the purpose of putting display
| of citrus fruits in the fair to be held in
| Oroville, commencing on the 9Th day of
| January.
| 1t was further ordered that the sum of
| 81 900 be used in placing an exhibit in Cal
ifornia on Wheels.
This looked like reckless way of ap-
| propriating money when there was none in
the treasury, but the cheers that greeted
the passage of each of the resolutions bore
evidence OF the fact that the coin would be
| forthcoming.
A subscription paper was opened and J..
| P. Whitney headed the list with 81, 900,
| followed by ]. ]. Morrison with $500, and
in less than ten minutes 81, 900 bad been
subscribed by the members of the Board of
I
Trade.
The following Executive Committee was
appointed to carry out the resolutions
passed: J. P Whitney, G. D. Kellogg, J..
f. Madden, ]. ]. Morrison, Robert Jones
and w. B. Gester.
A soliciting committee Of representative
and wide-awake citizens was appointed
and they enter upon their duties to-mor-
row. They will first go to Truckee where
Al
boxes and crates, have intimated desire
will return, stopping at Towles, Dutch
Flat, Gold Run, Colfax, New England
Mills and Emigrant Gap. after which they
will take in the fruit-shipping points of
Newcastle, Penryn, Rocklin, Loomis, Rose
vile and Lincoln. There is no trouble for
them to raise the required amount, and
double the sum could be obtained If neces-
sary.
THE LATEST BOOM.
Yesterday there was filed in the Record
er's office an instrument which adds addi-
tional value to all the land in Placer county,
and also all that portion of Sacramento
county lying north of the American river.
1t was bond for the sale by Mr.. Birdsall
of the Bear River Ditch property to the
South Yuba Company for 100000
|
reservoirs is now owned by an English
syndicate represented by Mr.. Spauldipg,
who, with Mr.. Birdssll, has signed the
bond.
The property of the Bear River Ditch
Company consists of series of canals that
cover the entire divide between the middle
and north forks of the American river in
the east and the Bear river in the west. 1t
has limited supply of water during the
irrigation season. The South Yuba Com
pany has extensive canals in Placer and
Nevada counties, and its storage reservoirs
high up in the mountains gives them an
almost limitless supply of clear, pure water.
Under the new regime all the canals will
be larger, and by next season every
orchardist and vineyardist can have water
in abundance at fair rates.
The canals will be continued into Suffer
and Sacramento counties, and clear mount
ain water will be brought to within two
miles of the limits of the Capital City.
A gentleman from Auburn last evening,
a member Of the Placer Board of Trade,
| who vouches for the above facts, says that
| everything in Placer county just now bears
a roseate hue, and the sentiment every
where is to put old Placer to the front"