The morning call., 1892-09-10
THE GOLD OF LATER DAYS.
Caught by Tree and Vine From Cali.
fornia's Glorious Sun.
A GREAT EAGLE OF YELLOW GRAIN.
There Is More to Be Seen at the Fair OF States
Products This Year Than Was Ever to
Do Seen Before.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.

SACRAMENTO. Sept. ct only needs a
brief glance around the agricultural ex-
hibit at the State Fair to convince one that
CALIFORNIA; gold is now being mined from
orchard and field. vineyard and garden,
rather than with pick and shovel, cradle
and mill. A collection OF this sort OF placer
gold is arrayed at the right of the main en-
trance in the space allotted to Placer
County. Here, attractively displayed, are
luscious grapes. tempting peaches, tooth
some pears and rosy apples from the noun
tain orchards. The ladies Of Placer must
be good housekeepers, judging from the
preserves and jell les and canned fruits they
have sent down to adorn the shelves in this
section. There are pomegranates and
oranges, too. and such grapes! What is
Fresno thinking Of? There are nuts and
raisins, cotton and grain. olive oil from the
Sierras and palms from the valleys. What
delight to live in Placer County, Vege-
tables, as well. all fit to burst with
their own bigness, and wine. wherewith
to make glad the heart You will see moth
ing like this until you step right next door
into Suffer County's exhibit and see the
grain that is grown there. the yellow corn,
the golden wheat; you feel the oats" and
smile In sheer admiration. Proper
wheat" says the label, in one row OF white
sacks. You feel like taxing some, but that
would be improper, you fear. There are
heaps of.potat0es, any one OF which would
make meal for a big family. Why
couldn't some Georgia picaninny capture
one OF those watermelons? He could cut
il open, scoop out the seeds and lie down in
IL while he gorged on the delicious inner
redness. They have used grain here with
decorative effect. A great eagle OF wheat
spreads his wings and shrieks defiance to
all the other counties.
Sacramento County has ransacked her
vegetable garden and shows las glorious
result: Cabaages, to make mein herr wild
with envy: green peas and beans, summer
squash, egg plant. caulifiower, radishes,
lettuce, crOok-necked squash, scarlet and
golden tomatoes, artiStlcally juxtaposed to
big green peppers; onions, sweet potatoes,
beets, turnlps. CELERY, grain and more
grain, grain in sacks and sheaves. in piles
and artistic groupings; hops, puDgent and
delightful; whole families OF cheeses in
rows, father and mother cheese. big and
rich. and all the little cheeses; then more
grain and fruit, fruit everyN here, but not a
bit to eat. There are four fine columns of
dressed stone at the entrance, showing what
the county produces in this line.
Sonoma County's exhibit is still in state
of chaos. but promises to be, when ready,
not one whit behind the others.
Mereed County sends some mammoth
chestnuts, the welcome kind, you know.
that no one tires OF. and broom that looks
as though 1t would always sweep clean;
dried fruit to tempt an anckorite, oats five
and six feet high and barley to match.
Their wheat has ''the big head" TO marked
degree, and the ladies of MERGED have sent
such an array OF canned fruits and jellies
that you long to go right over and take tea
with them. There is also fine display of
nkefs IA Uands nd i'm a1
County from homegrown wool. At the
left OF the main entrance Colusa County
has an exhibit worthy of that great section.
Here is shown collection of mineral rock
cinnabar, from the quicksilver mines, gold
and iron quartz copper, sulphur, from the
great sulphur banks that abound there, and
mineral waters from the springs. They
grow great wheat up there. and wine,
grapes and fruit are shown in abundance,
sugar-cane and honey, hay In bales-good
enough for Nancy Hanks-tobacco for
smokers, and climate for everybody. From
here you turn into Machinery Hall, which
is fairly humming. They are setting up
and printing newspaper here-the State
Fair GaZette-wlndmills are blowing. fan
ming mills tanning. mowlng-machines now
ing, on smooth pine floors; there are cleo
trio machines, steam engines and great
harvesters all going for dear life, ana in
the midst Of it all pa and ma are giving
small six-year-old uTchin liberal mechan-
zeal education until his eyes stick out from
the pressure of accumulated knowledge be-
hind them, and he can stand 1t no longer
II want some lem enade," he walls.
IT'S bliss to step into the quiet of Agri-
cultural Hall, where you wisely inspect
graders and scrapers, mowers aud reapers,
crushers, gang plows, harrows and header
wagons, ana tell the exhibitors you were
raised on a farm" You survey with
alteration all the labor-saving appliances
md Guol roll In oia aa1
barrow and sigh for the life of an honest
granger, with nothing to do but mediate
and see the wheels go round. Then you
stray into the mining section and take
look around. Here is huge model of
section of the nickel steel armor plate for
the United State battle ship Oregon, now
building at the Union Iron Works. 1t
doesn't seem possible that any missile ever
projected could penetrate 1t. The various
appliances for mining and reducing quartz
are all shown here and make an interesting
exhibit. Here, too, is an exhibit of the
new industry-ramie culture. The growing
plants are shown, machines for preparing
fiber and any quantity of fabrics and pre-
pared fiber, showing the wonderful adapta-
biity of this plant to various uses. There
is ramie cloth, half wool, half cotton, good
strong looking stuff. sacks and rope, and
ought to be admirable for household pur-
poses. Clearly ramie ought to have future
in California.
The whole pavilion is beautiful sight.
The decorating committee have done their
work admirably and the general effect is
very brilliant Advertisers have fine dis
play, each exhibit being model of tasteful
arrangement. In the center of the hall is
pavilion erected by the Federated Trades,
symbolcal of labor and supporting an
immense globe-the world. The four pill
lars OF the pavilion represent labor and are
covered with charters of the different trades
unions. The four primitive trades are rep
resented by a plow and sickle, n black
smiths anvil, woodman's ak and miners
outfit, and in the center Is displayed a col
lection Of the books used in that center OF
our civilization, the public schools. Four
figures at each corner symbolic music,
art. literature and feminine industry.
The educational exhibit is very complete,
comprising entries from the various schools
and colleges in the State and relies of early
school days on the coast. In the military
section are several stands of arms carried
by CALIFORNIA; volunteers in 1861, eolec-
tion of battle flags American arms, etc.,
and very interesting relic in the form
of the old flint-lock mnsket carried by Gov
ernor Markham's father, when boy OF Is,
through the battle of Plattsburg in 1914.
A pleasantly suggestive curio from San
Jose is labeled "Grandma Basconi's piano."
This venerable instrument was brought
''around the Horn" in 1S49 1t cost $500 in
the East, and the freight on it from San
call the traffic would bear" at that time.
OLD-TIME FLAGS.
such Raising Ms Was Never Seen Before
In California.