Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-07
LOVELY AUBURN.
A WIDE AWAKE, PROSPEROUS AND GO
AHEAD MOUNTAIN CITY.
Close of the First Annual Fair of the
Twentieth Agricultural District
Natural Resources.

auDUfn IS the county seat Vi I1aCei
county, and one of the best mountain
towns in the State. AS producing
county il is in the front rank, and more
than once has carried off the highest
honors in that line from the State Fair in
honest competition with her sister counties.
This year the people of Placer concluded
to hold fair IN their own county. 1t was
decided success, aud closed last night.
There was some little hitch about the
appointment of Directors Lincoln wanted
the fair held in that town, and few jeal-
ousies that existed between local factions
for time threatened to make it failure
However, the citizens of Auburn at the
last moment put their shoulders to the
wheel, and the fair was grand success.
The Directors are George W. Towles, CT
Towles Harold T. Power, Of Sunny South;
William NJ. Baker, of Colfax J. c. Boggs.
of Newcastle Jo Hamilton and w b.
Lardner, of Auburn, and Dana Perkins, of
Rocklin.
The officers are Jo Hamilton, Presi-
dent; F. D. Adams, Secretary, and 7. J.
Nichols, Treasurer.
What Auburn most needs is large pub
lie hall. The pavilion was in the old opera
n
first day of the fair exhibits came in
slowly, and the Directors, fearing failure,
solicited business firms to fix up fancy
booths displaying their wares. This was
done by several in a most creditable man
ner, and the pavilion had a picturesque
and attractive appearance. When the Di.
rectors thought their exhibits of fruit and
horticultural products were going to be
meager, they were mistaken in their peo.
n a ND Il . -,1f
such great quantities that the opera house
could not contain half of it on exhibition,
and it was piled up promiscuously.
1t Is sale to say that no fair ever held in
this State showed & greater variety or so
good in size, appearance and flavor. As
Jo Hamilton remarked, such another ex-
hibit of the products of the soil, in variety,
size and beauty, could not be ex-
celled in the world. Hundreds of varieties
of grapes, scores of kinds of peaches beau
tfully Colored apples, produced at an
elevation of 4 GOO feet, large, plump and
colored deep crimson; pears that would
fill bushel basket; oranges in blossom
and every stage of growth to the ripe fruit
itself; lemons in variety; figs that in size
AMI flavor could not be distinguished from
the far-famed article produced on the Med
iterranean squashes that weighed over
two hundred pounds corn fourteen feet
tipped the beam at ninety-six pounds |
These are the things that greeted the sight
of the reporter as he entered the hall |
Thursday morning. Mr.. Parker of New
castle, a former resident of Sacramento, !
to-day one of the first fruit producers in |
Placer county, showed the reporter around |
and explained some of the facts relative to
the different fruit districts of the county.
He is one of the believers in the future
Of hn frYefk ~ s,f
especially is he partial 10 the fl and olive. |
Mr.. Parker is en- honest and an honorable
man, and when he tells the reporter that
he has fig tree only three years old that
last year brought in over 500, we must
believe it. 1t is a Smyrna fig of pure
stock, and the fruit on exhibition was ar
ranged most attractiyely. When the price
of the fruit was ascertained the scribe be-
gan to figure how many tons it would
take to bring 500 "Oh, I didn't say l
sold 500 worth of fruit. I rooted every
bud that | could well cut from the tree
without spelling its growth, and readily
sold them at s. root"
Olive fruit was exhibited and also bottles
of the oil.
Captain z L Hawk, of Penryn, Z. W.
Maslin, of Loomis, and William B. Baker,
of ColfaX, had fruit on exhibition in great
variety. Placer county has fruit belt that
is unsurpassed, the Bear River ditch is run
ming full of water and it is sold at live and
let live prices, and the result IS that there |
is nothing that grows in the soil that can
not and is not produced here.
The exhibition was a surprise to her
own people. The old fossils that lay
around Auburn cry hard times" and ad-
wise all young men to go to Washington
Territory and grow up with the country,
had to admit that they were not aware be-
fore of the possibilities of their own section
and could not believe that such golden har-
vests awaited all who tiUkled mother earth
with the hoe.
What Placer county wants, in fact what
all the mining counties most need, is an
Immigration of an intelligent class who
believe in good fences elegant and
comfortable homes, who are not afraid
to labor for their daily bread, and who will
farm scientifically. To all such few years
of toll brings a competency, and OF such
class are the communities along the line of
railroad from RoSeville to Auburn
No one viii say that Auburn is pretty
town or well laid out, for such is not the
case, but there is a picturesqueness about il
that Is very attractive. In early DAYS the
town was built in a short and narrow
ravine, and there il remains. The princi-
pal banks, stores and public buildings are
down il a hole, while the school buildings
and residences occupy the adjacent hill
sides. There is no town in the State of its
size that has no many elegant private
mansions, or 50 many well-lo-do citizens
as Auburn. Here resides the retired mer-
chant. miner and business man who will
end his Gays in ease and luxury, who enjoys
the peerless foOthill climate and can educate
his children in as good educational institu-
tons as are TO be found on the coast.
Auburn is an incorporated city and can
boast of the finest water works on the coast
under gravity pressure of 375 feet. With
two weli-equipped hose companies she is
In no danger of g serious contagration, and
her rate OF insurance is correspondingly
low.
Her people are intelligent, her lawyers
embrace some of the names OF those emil
nent in the legal profession, aud she sup
ports three ably edited weekly newspapers
The local paper, when properly edited, does
much to advance every interest in the COM
munity and Auburn's citizens, sppreciat.
ing this fact. give liberal support to 'ye
local editor"
Auburn station, at one time separate and
distinct from the town of Auburn, which
was a mile distant, has now become q sub
uTb of the city. The town is building to.
wards the depot, and, in fact, business
houses and residences line the street on
both sides now, and in the course of few
years the old town will be absorbed by the
new.
street railroad is the latest thing pro-
posed, and will soon be built
A sAEITARIUM.
For many years physicians throughout
the State have been recommending TO their
patients, especially those troubled with
lung complaints, the climate at Auburn.
As result, four large hotels have been
erected, and they are completely filled with
those in search of pleasure and health
throughout the year. Freeman's Hotel,
with one hundred rooms, seems to be the