Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-03
MID-WINTER Fair.
THE STATE CITRUS EXHIBIT TO BE
HELD AT 0RovILLE.
Central and Northern California Countie.
to be Representative Months
Ahead of the South.

| The citrus fair held in Sacramento few
years since demonstrated to the world the
fact that Central and Northern California
could successfully compete with other
| localities in the cultivation of the orange
and lemon for the market. That exhibit
| ton of the citrus products of this portion
of the State was revelation even to the
| majority of its own residents, although in
many localities attention was already being
given to citrus culture. But since the
holding of that fair great strides have been
made in this direction, notably in Butte
county, in the neighborhood of Oroyille,
which had already acquired considerable
celebrity for the choice quality of its fruits.
Many thousands of acres in that county
have since been planted with orange trees,
and the citrus colonies there have flour
ished in a manner that has been excelled
in few localities of the State, even where
orange-growiDg is regarded as the chief
industry. The State Board of Trade,
forseeing the future Importance to the
State of her citrus industries, and appre-
ciating the fact that the holding of exhibit
to bear, took steps toward having the State
Legislature provide for two yearly citrus
fails in different parts of the State. The
proposition met with general favor, and
that body voted $4,000 for the purpose
one such exhibition to be given in the
southern part of the State and one in the
northern, under the direction of the State
Board of Agriculture. Subsequently Los
Angeles and Oroville were selected as the
places at which these fairs should be held.
Owing to the fact that oranges and lem
ons in Central and Northern California are
ready for market much earlier than in the
southern counties, the date of the Oroville
Fair was fixed for January 9TH, and that of
the Los Angeles Fair two months later
The former will open on Tuesday evening
next, and it is expected that most of the
counties in the Sacramento valley and
along the Sierra Nevada warm foothill belt
will have exhibits thereat. Following is
the Executive Committee having the mat
ter in charge: E. w. Fogg, Chairman; D.
K. Perkins. a. c. Bell, James c. Gray,
Floyd Taber, G. H. Cordy, Col. T. B. Lud-
lum, A. o. Baldwin, ]. J. Smith. D. n.
Friesleben, j. N. Bali. Major Frank Nc
Laughlin. Msjor A. f Jones and NJ. J.
Green. The Secretary is Robert a. Green.
Mr.. Friesleben, who has been Superintend-
ent of the two PIE 'ious fairs, will again
hold that position, while G.. w. Hancock,
of Sacramento will be Managing Director,
representing the State Agricultural Society.
The fair will be held in mammoth can
vas pavilion, as was the local one last year.
owing 10 the lack of hall spacious enough
for that purpose. The pavilion is upward
of 200 feet in length, and has been erected
in the Courthouse grounds. The eontinu-
OT1q Storm has int arfarod e0roauhat ryitb
getting the pavilion in proper shape, but
all will be in readiness for the opening at
the appointed time.
While the fair is in progress visitors will
be carried by the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company at special rates. Last season
round-trip tickets were s.. General Freight
Agent Smurr has issued circular instruct
ing agents TO charge exhibitors regular
rates on shipments to 0royille, and adds
when to be returned, consignee or exhib-
itor should surrender to this company's
agent at Oroville the expense bill showing
charges TO the fair, also certificate of the
Secretary of the Association to the effect
that the property had been on exhibition
and not changed hands. The agent will
take up said expense bill and certificate,
and forward the shipment to original ship
ping point free of charge, noting on the
way-bill, Inward expense bill and Secre-
tary's certificate taken up Exhibitors who
may have paid charges to the fair on arti-
cles that at its close are found to be worth
less, by reason of their perishable nature
can, upon surrendering of the expense bill.
accompanied by certificate of the Secretary
of the Association that the property has
been on exhibition. not sold, and is unfit
for return transportation, receive from this
companv's agent the amount paid for
transportation to the fair. The agent will
send such expense bills, accompanied with
Secretary's certificate. to this Office for re-
lief voucher"
In addition to the $500 given by the
State TO aid in the holding of the exhibition,
the citizens of Butte have raised $4,000
more for the purpose. Premiums are
offered for oranges, lemons, olive oil,
raisins, dried fruits, apples and almonds.
Placer county will have fine display at
the fair, but will not be a competitor for
premiums.
There are persons who affect to believe
that such expositions as that proposed to
be held at 0roville are of little or no prac-
teal value But this opinion does not
seem to prevail among the people of
Florida. The RECORD UNION was yester-
day the recipient of an invitation to the In
ternational and Semi-Tropical Exposition
TO be held at Ocala, in that State, ON the
18th inst, and to continue three months.
Among the inducements offered to visitors
are the following:
1.-THE city of Ocala has fine hotel accom-
modations, street railways, electric lights,
artesian water, ETC., and includes within an
hours ride the famous groves at Citra and
Orange Lake, Lake Weir, the historical
Silver Springs, the magnificent Blue
Springs, the Ocklawaha and Withlacoochee
rivers, Dunnellon and its rich phosphate
deposits, and the "Sportsman's Paradise"
Homosassa, where twenty eight varieties
of fish are found (thirteen Of which rise to