Arizona republican., 1891-03-26
I-TROPICAL FRUITS Displayed in Attractive
 ProfuSion. Southern CalifOrnia's Citrus . Fair. An Exhibition of Almost Incredible Beauty-Its Transfer to
 Chicago.
Special Correspondence of THE REPUBLICAN.
Los ANGELES, March 2l, 1891

SpeClhl lNOtTcspOHueHCe Ol HE hkfuBLlCAN.
 Los ANGELES, March 2l, 1891.
 The great Citrus Far of Southern California at the Pavilion is over. There has probably never been as complete an exhibit of the citrus products of Call. fornia before, and visitors have just got faint idea by it of the wonderful ca. pacity of the State in this line.
 For week thousands of people have visited the display, which was made on unique plan. Great towers, miniature buildings, horse cars and many other designs were constructed of oranges, lemons, Hines and other citrus fruits raised in the southern part of the State. Pasadena was represented by tower forty-fve feet high built in the center of the floor. In it's construction were used 25,00O oranges. Upon the pinnacle rested crown with the inscription 'The Crown of the Valley" Redlands had in one corner of the hall pano- ramic view of the great Bear valley dam, with a great archway, in which "Red- lands" was inscribed with oranges and illuminated with colored electric lights. It made most beautiful and conspicuous display. Ontario was represented by a street car constructed of oranges and lemons, and Duarte by an artistic build ing in which were used 27,000 oranges.
 The display was grand one and the Fastener never was SO astonished. heard one remark, If my friends could only see this They will not believe what tell them about it."
 When 1t is taken into consideration that the localities making these exhibits were but a few years ago bowling deserts, it is source of consolation to the ambitious orange grower of the Salt River Valley.
 In the citrus product of Southern California they show also many varieties of the orange and lemon, also bananas and fruit that the writer, though essentially Californian, never heard of before, namely, the "Chirimorya," or custard apple, a native of South Amer ica and West Indies. It is a most deli cious fruit and is eaten out of the rind with spoon. It has mottled dark green skin, and is favored something like the pineapple; in fact, it is probably of that species.
 A subscription of $6OOO has been raised to take the great exhibit to Chicago, where it will be fitted up just as it was here, and serve greatly to advertise California.
 Many natives of the State, too, have learned much of their own country by it. There were many fruits exhibited that the average Californian never heard of, or at least had never seen. These are tropical fruits that have been introduced and experimented with during the last few years, and while they have not been grown as yet for the market the experi- ments have proven the adaptability of the climate and soil to them.
 Manager Hanchetle of the fair said that they had expected Arizona to take part in the exhibit, but understood that the floods had prevented. Such an op- portunity would have been we'll worth taking advantage of, as the city is just now full of Eastern tourists.
 The exhibit was in no sense local one, but a free invitation to the south west. California was represented as far north as Tulare county and from every locality the finest of fruits were brought.
 It is no longer a question of the adaptability of the country to the citrus fruits, but of the quality of the fruit. and these exhibits demonstrate that the finest quality in the world can be raised in the Southwest. F. J.P.