Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-07

proves incontestibly the capacity of the
region represented, which embraces more
than two-thirds of the State; that the sec
ton contributing is so early with its pro-
ducts that it does not practically come
into market conflict with any other; that
though we have now the severest season
ever known in the modern history of the
State, it has not impaired our ability to
produce semi-tropical fruits.
The fair will also serve to illustrate
wildly the wonderful extent of the pro-
gress made in the cultivation of citrus
fruits since the time-only half dozen
years ago-attention was given to the in
dustry for commercial purposes. Prior to
that time the orange and the lemon were
grown for ornament only, the energies of
the people being absorbed in agriculture,
mining, manufacturing, or the prosecution
of the business of growing, shipping and
curing of deciduous fruits.
There can be no question whatever that
the people of the central and northern
sections have not more than Just entered
upon the business of growing oranges,
lemons olives and figs; they are but upon
the threshold of these important industries
that it has been demonstrated can be en-
gagged in in all this region under better
conditions than elsewhere in the State.
We trust that the people will go to Orc
vile in great numbers; that they will
come down from the mountains to witness
the first of the State Citrus Fairs; that the
towns and cities will send multitudes, and
that all the strangers within our gates will
be persuaded to attend one or more days
while the fair is in progress. The present
long period of bad weather has operated
somewhat to check some industries, and
has created something of temporary
stringency in finances; but there is, in fact,
no reason except the enforced idleness of
outdoor labor for few weeks for any
feeling of Encouragement. There is as
much money as ever in the country, and
the commercial and trade interests are I'M
harmed. The disposition to borrow
trouble and look upon the dark side be-
cause the clouds of a long rainy season
still lower is one wholly objectionable,
and there is no reason for it this year in
California. The people who would go to
the citrus fair at any time are as able to
go now as they ever have been.
The duty of Sacramentans to attend
reaches beyond the value of citrus culture
to this market. The fair is held in the
heart of the trade area of the city, and
good business sense dictates that we should
make cur presence felt at the fair to en-
courage not only citrus fruit growing, but
to meet the people whose business is con-
tributory to our commercial prosperity.
Sacramento frequently invites the north
and center to come to her board and they
always respond with alacrity. Let us not
forget, therefore, the duty we owe to re-
turn the favor. Besides, the fair is that of
Sacramento as much as of any other
county; it is a State institution, and its
Jurisdiction is limited only by the bounds
of a single Congressional district, in the
south, where the second State citrus fair is
to be held some time later, and to which
we trust the people of the State will go in
numbers worthy of the cause of citrus
fruit culture