The record-union., 1891-12-08
SACRAMENTO AND THE CITRUS
FAIR.

The North and Central District Citrus
Fair, authorized to be held by law, will
presently be opened at Auburn, in Placer
County. It should be made the best,
most valuable and attractive of any ever
undertaken. The people Of all the coun-
ties outside of the Sixth Congressional
District should esteem it not only duty,
but privilege, to engage in the work of
making the exposition pronounced and
phenomenal success.
We may not expect great crowd of
Eastern visitors to be present, though at
the time goodly number of strangers
will be visiting in the State. But we
need more of home education upon all
questions of production and the capaci-
ties of our soils and climates. These pro-
duce fairs are educators; by the exposi-
ton Of the examples of experiment and
success in growing fruits we enlarge the
intelligence Of our people upon horti-
culture, encourage those already engaged
in it and stimulate the investment of capi-
tai IN productive enterprises.
Sacramento County has a special inter
est in this fair. 1t is to be held at her
very doors, in the territory of our near
neighbors, and in the midst of a com
munity with which we have intimate
trade relations and social converse. Let
our people exert themselves in this mat
ter and at once set about to put on view
an exhibition of which the county will
be proud. There ought to be local or
ganization at once to effect this We
should have a skilled committee on the
ground to receive and arrange our ex-
hibits, and, prior to that, one to solicit
and collect them.
Sacramento County can place on view
oranges, lemons, lines, various semi
tropical plants and growth, olives and
olive oil, figs, almonds, walnuts, pome-
granates and many other exhibits Our
manufacturers in fruit products and our
housewives can have in place a superior
exhibition of preserved, canned and
otherwise prepared semi-tropic fruits,
and their products in jellies, candied,
dried and other forms of fruit preserva-
ton, as also machines and appliances re-
lated to semi-tropic fruit culture.
What every one having the facilities
should do now is to save goods for the
fair and arrange for their delivery to the
proper committee. No one should deem
small offerings Insignificant. By the ag-
gregation of small lots our exhibition
must succeed. Even examples of the
growth of a single tree, or plant, are not
too small to be sent in, for these testify to
the capacity of the locality to produce.
Our horticulturists, business men and
dealers should be alive to the Importance
of this matter and at once set about to Sc
cure the appointment of a reliable, ener-
getic local committee to forward the
work. Only a very few weeks remain in
which to make preparation, and not a
day should be lost. We suggest that the
Chairman of the Board of Supervisors
and the Mayor of the city undertake to
call a meeting of producers and business
men at very early day, representative
ofevery part of the county, to take action
in this matter. We owe it to Northern
and Central California and we owe it to
ourselves to make Sacramento very
prominent at the Auburn fair. Placer
County came to both of Sacramento's cit
rus fairs with splendid exhibits. Let US
see to it that we do as well.