Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-28

two days in making the passage and the
return as against one in tho case Of Sacra-
from the south and west
one can come, visit the fair and return
home the same day. So far as the culti-
vators of citrus fruits are concerned, they
we'll know that their shipments can be
more readily and speedily made to this
city than to either Marysville or Oroville,
except for the region Immediately contig-
uous to those places. As for Chico, beau
tiful and thriving city that it is, we do not
apprehend that any one seriously thinks OF
placing the fair so far north, and thus seri-
ousIy limit the visitations to it. Certainly,
if located either at Marysville, Oroville or
Chico, very few, if any, of the great multi
tude of through passengers on overland
trains will visit the exhibition. If located
in Sacramento the passengers on every one
of the four daily overland trains will be
taken to the exhibition rooms and shown
the proofs that the northern citrus belt is
no myth, as also will all the passengers
overland who come up from the south, and
all of whom remain in this city several
hours, whether taking the route north
through Oregon or that over the Sierra
Nevada mountains.
Moreover, the City of Sacramento is
better conditioned for the entertainment Of
visitors to the fair and their accommoda-
ton. Its capacity in that respect runs up
to sixty or seventy thousand guests. 1t is
recalled that when the local citrus fair was
held in OroEille, the capacity of that
pleasant and progressive town was over
taxed What then would be its task in
this larger and more important case? It's
very incapacity in this respect, to say
nothing of its remoteness, would have a
tendency to keep visitors away. Our con-
temporary refers to It's canvas Pavilion as
being in readiness for such an exposition.
Does it not recall the fact that it was in
sufficient for the accommodation of the
exhibits and visitors when the late citrus
fair of local district was held under it !?
Certainly the fact is remembered here, and
the crowded condition of the tent when
that very fine exposition was held in 0ro-
vile is net forgotten.
If the suggestion of our contemporary
that Oro7ille will hold citrus fair, no
matter what is done in the case of the
one under consideration, is intended as 3
threat, and reflects the sentiments of the
people of that section, we have to say
simply that it is unworthy of them, and
can have no other than an i'll effect If
however, after the general citrus fair Oro-
vile wishes to hold its annual local citrus
fair in this year, there are none who will
aid more to that end than the people and
press of Sacramento. But we confess to
the belief that this year Oroville should
omit her fair in the interest of that of larger
Importance. If, however, there is to be a
prior fair held at Oroville, and it should
result, as we are confident it would, in Grip
pling that ordered by the Legislature, let
our good friends of Oroville be assured
that they viii suffer most. We of North
ern California cannot afford to quarrel
over these matters; the interests of the
largest area and the greatest number are
to be considered, and before these local
pride and ambition must give way. We
are disposed to believe that the Register
does not voice the sentiments of the peo-
pie of Oroville and vicinity in the sug-
gestion Of an opposition fair. This is not
matter of towns, or cities, or localities,
but of the great district that embraces that
empire of wealth, resource and unbounded
promise-Northern and Central California.