The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-14

hours they may be seen on the streets with
eyes for all things interesting and detective
snapshot cameras to help them carry away
very perfect Impressions of this pre- tty
country.
This city is looking its best. Nearly
every yard has orange trees laden with fruit.
1t is not considered here ready for picking
until April. Riding about is the popular
pastime. Some of the streets are dusty, al
though it was Only about fortnight since
that showers helped make food that washed
and wrecked all the adjoining country.
At the fair pavilion the judges are
busy One of them is a young man
some San Franciscans may remember.
Wallace Diss Over a year ago he
he abandoned newspaper work there,
laid down the pen and took up the pruning
knife, left the shears for an orange picker
and is now rated as one OF the live orange
growers of Redlands, n thrifty town about
ten miles north of Cotton, in sight of snow
capped San Bernardno. Another San Fran
ciscan now there is George w. Meade, once
widely known as a fruit commission mer-
chant on Drumm street. He now swears by
his new home and says it is the finest spot
on the globe, Paris nor New York excepted
This Redlands town has about the best
show at the fair. 1t cost about $1,000 10 put
it in shape. 1t is q miniature of the Bear
Valley dam, the great masonry structure up
i'll the mountains that helrs to form lake
| containing some 5000, Coo 900 cubic feet of
water. 1t is this water that helps TO make
all of RedlaGds' groves fertile, and it irri-
| gates all the 900 acres, more or less, of
| the New Perris and Allessandro colonies
where about 100000 OF Eastern capital has
| lately been invested.
The estimate published OF 100000
oranges in the pavilion is q little steep
there may be half that number. Several of
| the designs contain 25,0G0, by actual record
kept by those who arranged them.
The Los Angeles ladies turned out in
force to work on the county designs. Among
them were: Mrs. n. c. Bledsoe, Mrs. w. S.
Bryson, Mrs. E S. Biles, Mrs. S. Z. Cush-
man, Mrs. A. l.. Cornell, Mrs C. o. Church,
Mrs. l.. n. Cabin. Mrs. l.. L. Collins. Mrs.
| l.. Grebe, Mrs. Il. Gordon, Mrs c. L. Hutch
insonn, Mrs. q. II. HUbill, Mrs. L; HAM
Mrs. a. de B. MITCHELL Mrs. F. W. Mottern,
| Mrs. r. R. McCreary, Mrs. o. w. McGrew,
Mrs. c. McCoran, Mrs. X. &. Martin, Mrs.
A. J. Paige, Mrs. NJ. E. Patton, Mrs S. a.
Mitchell, Mrs: CIV; Taylor, Mrs, c. J. Van
Worst, Mrs; E. |. Winslow, Mrs, DR.. Weld
ner, Miss f. McCreay, j. II, Gingery, Mrs.
e; d. Wise, Mrs. Sterling, J. E. Loom!s,
Eads, Mrs. Prince, Mrs. T. W. Curtis.
General N. S. Chapman and ex-Rairoad
| Commissioner Cone of Red Bluff are here
| and are having good time visiting various
| points OF interest The fair managers some
time ago asked General Chapman to speak,
| and having accepted the invitation, he pre-
| pared long and interesting address, which
he delivered Wednesday evening. 1t was
an elaborate discussion on the growth and
present prospects of fruit-growing in the
| State. lie described a visit to this section
| in 1860 and eontrasted the things seen then
| with the sights at present. He quoted
| statistics of freight shipments for 1890, and
showed that while 1S,444,37O pounds OF