The record-union., 1891-01-11
TEE CITRUS FAIR.
It Promises to be a Thing Of
Grandeur and Beauty.
What the People of Marysville and
Other Places are Doing to
Make 1t So.

Other Places are Doing to
Make It So.
Tomorrow the State Citrus Fair for
Northern California, to be held under
the auspices of the State Agricultural
Association, will open at Marysville and
continue until Saturday night. The citi-
| zens of Yuba County are displaying great
zeal in the matter of making the exhibit
one that will be an honor to the State and
to their own county, and they are receiv-
ing liberal aid from Placer, Butte and
other counties. A correspondent of the
Bulletin, writing from Marysville, says
| of the preparations that are being made ::
There never was more interest dis
played here in any public event than this
fair has excited. Money has been Law
ished freely for decorative purposes, and
during the present week there have been
as many as fifty ladies devoting their
volunteer labors to the making of ever
green wreaths and other forms of ma
terial for making the pavilion attractive
Marysville is fortunate in having a
| fine and large exhibition building that is
just what is needed for the purposes of
this citrus fair. 1t was built some years
ago DIV d CuSG VI Slu,UOU, anu is SO placeQ
that excursion trains on the California
| and Oregon line can be stopped at the
| very doors of the main hall. This hall is
| l60x72 feet, and, with other parts of the
| building, gives floor surface of about
| 1900 square feet. This will all be occu-
| pied, so that it is safe to say the fair will
exceed in extent of exhibits, as well as in
ornamentation, anything of the sort ever
| before attempted in Northern California,
| ii not in Los Angeles or any other part of
| the world.
SOME DECORATIVE FEATURES.
Every window in the hall (and there
are scores of windows) is framed in
| double rows of oranges nailed to the
walls. There will be no bare or un-
slightly spaces. The pillars and posts
which support the roof are buried out of
| sight in spirals of fir and strings of citrus
| fruits. A small forest of fir and cedar
has been consumed in the determination
to leave nothing in sight that would mar
| the general effect of the elaborate decora-
tions. The gallery is embowered in foil
age frightened by the yellow of the
| orange. Walls, roof, everything, is to
form part OF great symphony in green
and gold.
The management has not left much to
be done by exhibitors to make the pavil-
ion attractive. The decorations alone
make a spectacle worth time and money
to see. But when all the floor space is
| filled with carloads of citrus and other
with exhibits, there will indeed be a
| show to call a multitude of visitors from
San Francisco and other cities.
BUTTE CoUNTY's DISPLAY.
A tall structure of wood, rising almost
| to the lofty ceiling, marks the location of
| Butte County's display. This is called a
Chinese pagoda, and is large enough for
the home Of a mandarin of moderate de-
sires. 1t is to be thatched and covered
| all over with oranges from Oroyille and
| the neighborhood of that place.
| In the northwestern angle of the hall a
! party of Chico citizens are evolving some
| decorative scheme designed to represent
q part of the Agricultural building at
Washington. AT the western end of the
pavilion, is also large design, about
| twenty-five feet high, in the form of q
Holland windmill. The framework is
covered with oranges, lemons, dried figs,
apples and other things. arranged so as to
present contrast of colors.
Butte County, which is nothing if not
pious, will have an orange-covered
church in miniature, to offset the effect of
the heather temple or pagoda. Sermons
ia citrus fruits are to be preached from
the citrus church by jealous Orovilie be-
levers in the verify of the northern cit
| rus belt. Thousands of perfect Wash
ington Navels from Thermalito are to
demonstrate that faith has crystallized in
works Of actual production and develop
| ment.
PLACER AND OTHER COUNTIES.
| Near Butte County's display, across the
| way, Placer's exhibits are to be placed.
They are expected to be credit to that
county, in which residents have SUBJ
scribed 1000 for the purpose of making
| display. Placer's fruits will be here to-
night or tomorrow, and her representa-
| tives are on the ground.
One of the best displays will be that of
the Sutter Fruit Company. This will
represent train of cars emerging from a
tunnel into an orange grove, typical of
the entrance OF the traveller into Califor-
| MIA from the mountains during the win
ter season.
The counties that are thus far repre-
| sented in this exposition include Yuba,
Sutter, Butte, Placer, Colusa, Solano,
Shasta, Yolo, Nevada, Sacramento and
Sishyou. Siskiyou sends a fine display
of apples.
It's expected that fine display of date
palm foliage from Solano County, with
ripe fruit from the Wolfskill trees, will
be made in the Pavilion.
Suffers FORT REPRESENTED.
A conspicuous feature of the decorations
will be representation of Suffers fort
at Sacramento, done in oranges and ever
greens. This is completed and is very
handsome and striking design. The Fort
is large enough for reception-room. 1t
is surrounded by a high and thick wall of
evergreens, pierced by embrasures A
cannon taken from General Suffers Hook
| farm, on the Feather River, is to be
| placed in the doorway of the structure
Thousands of oranges and lemons were
| used in the covering of the design. The
| root is surmounted by the image of a
| bear, whose expansive eountenance bears
| a peculiar citrus grim" or as much ex-
preston as cunning arrangement of
oranges and lemons can impart. His eye
| is fancied to be squirting southwark, in
| the direction of Los Angeles.
MARYsvILLE AsTIR.
The Marysville Citrus Fair Association
has displayed much enterprise and
activity since the inception of this ex-
hibition. President Norman Rideout.
Secretary G. w. Harney, Superintendent
James O'Brien, Jr., and c. Tharsing,
Chairman of the Committee on Decora-
tions, r. w. Skinner and others have
expended much time, thought and labor
in the plan and execution of arrange
ments necessary to complete success.
A movement for general decoration
of business houses and of residences has
begun. A number of places of business
have adorned their show windows with
tastefully arranged citrus fruits and
| foliage.
Hundreds of large orange and lemon
trees, bearing ripe fruit, may be seen in
the gardens OF Marysville and Yuba City.
| and to many visitors the trees, with their
golden fruits cleaning in the glossy
green foliage, will be scarcely less at
tractive than the spectacle in the payil-
| ion.
Bananas. geraniums. roses and other