Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-02
"cALIroRN1A ON WHEELS.



The conductors of the Californis car sent
out by the State Board of Trade report often
the progress of their exhibit through the
East, and its success is measured BY the
vast number of visitors who inspect it and
express their pleasure and appreciation to
the gentlemen in charge.
The car has carried to distant commune
ties an object lesson of the greatest value to
California. 1t has affirmed the clemency
of our climate and the richness of our soil,
and the influence of both upon rural indus
try. 1t has shown indisputably the won.
deiful variety OF our products, and has
given the East just conception of the
number of strings California farmer has
to his bow.
The effect of this knowledge upon the
East can only be measured when we con-
slider the few crops upon which the farmer
must depend In that region, and the liabil-
lty of these to common destruction by some
cratic change in the weather, By untimely
rain, or drought, or frost Climate is what
you have all the time, while weather
| changes" was little girls very excellent
definition of the distinction between the
two. This car is teaching the people who
have weather that California has a climate
and has it all the time.
The deep impression made by this enter
prise of the State Board Trade is not all
made know by the reports of its managers.
The best insight of it is had in private let
tiers from Eastern folk to their friends here
One of these, written to Miss Buck, of
VacaVille, by relative in Rochester, New
York, has been kindly shown the Alta,
and we know it is only sample of scores
such as have been written. 1t is interest
ing for the contrast it affords between the
methods of our State Board and those of
rival exhibitors who have entered the field
in competition with California. Wequote !:
| The California car was here some two weeks
ago. 1t was here several days. visited it
| twice, and was delighted with the exhibit
The bottles of wine and champagne made me
| dry. The fruits and samples and everything in
the car were SO tastefully arranged it was a real
| work of art
At the same time the California car stood here
{, there was Florida car. An admission fee of
ten cents was charged to see Florida and the
exhibits and arrangement did not compare
with your car, orthey were dirty, i'll smelling
cheaply and miserably arranged show. The
difference was especially noticeable after visit
ing the California. l took some ladies down to
the depot, and after visiting the California car
we went to the Florida car, which looked fine
outside, but we felt as if we had been swindled
when we went inside. 1t was neither attractive
nor interesting, while the California car was
BOTH and instructive besides. The sight of it
| made us cOvetous We wanted to taste the
fruits, gtdces. and 1 could hardly keep hands
off the wine bottles, which, fortunately, were
wired fast.
This letter gives one an idea of the good
work that is being done by putting Califor-
MAS show-window on wheels.
1t is proof that this State performs all
that it advertises, and that its commerce
and prosperity have the solid foundation of
| the most varied rural industry possible to
any country on earth.
Such results should encourage the whole
State to second the efforts of the Board of
Trade, that 1t may extend its efforts to
wider fields. Its work is not directed
especially to securing immigration. The
above letter shows how its exhibit power
fully promotes a market for our products.
IL every one could have seen the benefit of
a London exhibit in a commercial light,
| that enterprise would have inspired the
consumers in a great market with the
same desire to touch and taste that was felt
by the New Yorker. We have faith that the
Board will yet be able to reach the English
public with such an attractive show of our
fruits and wines and other evidences of our
capacity to compete with France and Italy
and Spain i'll their specialties as will reflect
| immediate benent upon our producers. The
good effect upon our trade is not to be
doubted, and If secondary effect appear,
In the tempting of immigration, it will be
of a most desirable class, since our industries
are of the kind that will attract no
other. They hold out inducements only to
the intelligent and thrifty, who, because
OF their thrift and intelligence, make de-
sirable citizens. Indeed, the work of the
State Board is practically toward inducing
select Immigration only, for the impress
sion it gives of California is an appeal to
the refined tastes and the best aspirations
of people everywhere.-S. r. Alta.