The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-05-01
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The southern California citrus ex-
hiDition was the most elaborate and
perfect of its kind ever seen. Start
ious orange thirty feet in cir
conference made up of thousands Of
smaller fruit. Behind it were the rest
of the orange county products in the
form of banks and pyramids of lines,
lemons and oranges with car wheel,
indicating that all are sold in carload
lots To the left is the additional dis
play made by Cucamonga of oil, wine
and other things.
Then came the beautiful arch, forty
six feet in span, of Redlands, San
Bernardino county, representing in
its background the Bear valley dam
Next was an exhibit from Ontario of
a car composed of oranges. The
upperSan Gabriel valley with separate
exhibits from its three towns, Glen
dora, Covina and Azusa, showed a
model of Cleopatra's Needle and an
immense mass of fruit An interest
ing feature of the exhibit was the
courthouse of Los Angeles, standing
upon an eminenee and built, except
the clock, of mandarin oranges and
lines.
The bay and harbor of San Diego,
with Point Iona, were represented,
gulches and all. in the gold-yellow
fruit, with orange and lemon-laden
ships, wharves and piers. The exhibit
of various products followed.
A beautiful model of the old mission
of the franciscan monks at San
Gabriel stood at one side of the en-
trance, with steps, ruined walls and
the old Spanish belfry carefully por-
trayed. In the center were architec-
tural designs not less pretentious and
impressive.
Duarte had a great mosque, cres-
eent-topped, admitting score of per-
ons beneath its bullying minaret,
while to the north was the great obelisk
of Pasadena. This alone required
"a, 900 oranges of assorted kinds,
navels, st Michaels, Malta Bloods and
Mediterranean sweets, the choicest
of all the golden coast products.
Nearly 200 boxes made thirty-eight feet
of solid oranges, with palms and PAM
pas plumes atop, bringing the total
hight of the column to fifty feet.
The Santa Barbara exhibit was in
hard luck. The first night out, before
it had crossed the mountains, the
train tumbled down an embankment
and left nothing but fragments. With
characteristic enterprise, new lot of
fruit was exhibited by the third day
of the exhibit, and the original idea
of beautiful tropical garden carried
out. At the entrance to this garden
stood two great fan palms. Behind
them were strawberry guava ofJapan
full fruit, from which comes the
famous jelly, and the Abyssinia
banana, both in fruit and flower, the
latter measuring some ten feet in
length. There was also lime nearly
ten inches in length having all the
flavor OF the smaller fruit without its
excessive acidity. Custard apples,
Cherymoya, Egyptian papyrus, giant
bamboo, branches of she-oak from
tree years old and fifty-two feet in
height.
Then there were two date palms
containing six punches of fruit weigh
ing from sixty to eighty pounds
apiece, branch from a lemon tree
eleven feet long, all grown in one
season of four months. All this, with
raisins and olive, citron, lemon and
orange trees in both blossom and
fruit, hardly gives a complete idea of
the finest exhibit ever made