Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-03-26
WHAT THEY THINK.
Even q Meager Exhibition Looks Well
to Strangers.


EDS. RECORD. UNION: An examination OF
the register of visitors at the Exposition
building shows that 295 names were reg
istered during the past week, or an average
of about so persons per day. 1t is safe 10
estimate that only about 75 per cent. of the
visitors to the building register their
names. OF the number registering about
80 per cent. are going north to Oregon and
Washington Territory, about 80 per cent. TO
Los Angeles and Southern California. and
the remaining 20 per cent. are local visit
ors, or those who are stopping with US to
view the ground without having deter
mined on any particular destination.
There seems to be general disposition
on the part of our citizens to feel discour-
aged at the display being made at the Ex-
position building. but the visitors who
come from Kansas. Minnesota, Michigan
and Iowa, all express themselves as very
much pleased with what they see, and say
that nothing but the actual sight of
such grand growths of vegetation would
ever have convinced them OF the Won
derful productions of our valley.
They seem more than astonished when
told that everything in the building can be
duplicated within twenty miles OF this
city in our own county, and that oranges,
lemons, grapes, hops, cotton, tobacco,
wheat, oats, rye and barleycorn, peaches,
pears, plums. prunes, apricots. soft shell
almonds, peanuts lad infinitum" grow side
by side on the same farm.
One gentleman who registered as from
England and Australia, and who evidently
was great traveller, after critical exam
ination, wrote opposite his name in COM
mendation of the exhibit, Very good.
On last Saturday couple of gentlemen,
who had started for Washington Territory
stated in the Exposition building that they
had met so many persons at Portland,
Oregon, returning from Washington Ter
ritory, and that that country was being so
ovorrun with new corners that they were
advised to turn back, and they did so.
Constant reports are coming in from the
southern section of the State showing that
the boom down there is on its last legs.
A gentleman visited the building last
week who owns farm two and a
half miles from the town of Whittier,
located by Mr.. Pickering, ex-member
of the Chicago Board of Trade, who visited
this city some two years ago to locate a
colony of Friends. He says the land on
which the town is located is not worth over
$40 per acre, and yet town lots sold for
$1,000 per lot. Mr.. Pickering erected a
hotel at an expense OF SoO,V0O and now
the town is rapidly being deserted, and the
hotel property is apparently valueless. He
says the venture has been disastrous to all
interested in the scheme. If Mr.. Pickering
could have been induced to have located
his colony in Sacramento county, his prop
erty to-day would probably have been
doubled in value over the purchase price.
Mr.. Pickering is an associate editor of the
Christian Worker, published in Chicago,
H., hence his judgment and experience
has undoubtedly influenced many persons
with reference to California. From so
illustrious an example we ought to be able
to draw good lesson. and we can safely
invite his colony of Friends to come to our
locality to retrieve their shattered fortunes.
MANAGER