Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-17
SUNDAY. AUGUST II, 1890.
THE CHICAGO EXHIBIT.

The establishment of permanent eX-
hibit of the products of Southern Cali
fornia in the city of Chicago will prove
one of the wisest moves ever made.
Thanks to the good offices of Mr.. D.
Freeman, the funds required to start
and maintain this fine projected display
are nearly all assured, or paid in. The
pledged contributions have about all
been handed in from Orange, San Ber-
nardino and San Diego counties. The
pro rata of Los Angeles will be more
than met by the subscriptions, and
when the committee get together next
Wednesday in the Chamber OF Com
merce they will be prepared to take the
necessary steps to avail themselves of
the very liberal offer of President Man
vel, On the part of the Santa Fe COM
pany, to give them magnificent exhibit
ton rooms rent free in the Rialto build
ing one OF the finest and most central
buildings in Chicago.
This permanent exhibit will form
point of attraction lin the great lake
city. 1t will be fitted up with all the
conveniences that will induce strangers
to make it place of resort. The paper
literature of Southern California will
be kept on file in its reading room, and
all the data relating to our climate,
resources and land values will be avail
able for the conte mplating emigrant.
The tables will be covered with our
choicest fruits; the shelves will be filled
with samples of our best wines; our
largest pumpkins and most ponderous
beets will be arranged in conspicuous
places; the ore of mines and the gold
and silver speciment of our placers and
quartz veins will be placed in view our
oranges, lemons, figs, raisins, nuts, and
all the products of our fields, orchards
and vineyards will be so invitingiy dis
played as to excite the desire of the
average easterner to take part and lot
in section where such rich products
can be grown.
The time of year in which such an
exhibit as we shall display in Chicago
can accomplish the best results for
Southern California is near at hand.
The western farmers will be there on
their usual fall visit, and the wave OF
fasteners which is constantly setting
towards the west, will be rolling sinto
the great metropolis of the lakes. Many
of these will be struck by the monstrous
display, and when they learn of the
actual returns received by our orange
growers and fruit producers, they will
naturally say, THAT is the country for
me-" 1t will strike the eastern farmer
who has all he can do to make ends
meet when he has received the price OF
his years grain crop, that he can make
change greatly for the better by com
ing to a country where the producer is
SO well rewarded as he is here.
When he learns that a ten-acre fig
orchard returns one man $4,000 for the
years crop; that a twenty-acre orchard
of apricots has realized to another $1,000 !;
that orange growers are receiving all the
way from 5000 to $500 an acre from their
trees; that walnut groves are paying
5000 and over an acre to their owners !;
that even potato fields have this year
proven bonanza to the men who planted
them, they will very naturally expert
ence an irresistible desire to come to a
country where such rewards await the
intelligent industry of the man of mod
crate means and large push. Out of all
this we shall start tide of desirable
immigration here that will soon place
Southern California upon the up grade
of prosperity which will have in it all
the elements of permanence.
The committee cannot place the
Chicago exhibition in operation too
soon. 1t will prove factor of immense
consequence in the impending revival OF
good times. We are doing in this the
very thing we ought to do. We are
taking the very best means available to
bring before the people of the transmon
tame states the illimitable and matchless
resources of our favored section.