The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-05-25
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This County Urged to he Prepared for
an Exhibit n Chicago

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an Exhibit n Chicago
! Special to The CHRoNIcLE.1
THE DAIEEs, May 25slThe magnifi-
cent display of wberries yesterday
by Hans Klint prompts me to call the
attention of the citizens of The Dalles
and Wasco county to the Importance of
taking some early action to secure cred
cereals, wool and other products of
this county for the exposition
at Portland and tire worlds fair.
If The Dalles board OF trade cannot be
induced to do anything IN this matter,
why not request the local Horticultural
society or the Eastern Oregon Second
District Agricultural society, the latter
having some available funds, am told,
to act at once in this matter. a COM
mittee chosen by each of these societies
could unite in calling public meeting
and thereby arouse sufficient interest
that would result in securing sufficient
funds to bear the expense of making
collection and preparing the same for
exhibition. 3s.s.5e
You will need suitable exhibit jars
with large mouths for your large fruits,
also one or more persons to make can
vass of this county soliciting specimens
of the largest and best fruits, beginning
are now in the market.
Select some one well qualified and
whom your people have confidence IN,
in the city to receive all the specimens,
put up only such as are highly credita-
BILE, and of the fruits put such up by the
best known preserving process; when
done place the jars in a safe, dark, cool
place until needed for exhibition.
If your own citizens will direct the
disbursement of the funds and the prep
aration of the exhibits, l believe you
will have better one and it will be
made for great deal less expense than
the amount asked of your county by the
state board of trade last winter in their
effort for the worlds fair. l see several
coast counties of Oregon have begun
such an effort and have resolved to make
as good an exhibit at the state fair,
Portland and Tacoma expositions and
for the worlds fair. You know the last
Portland exposition awarded your
county the first premium for the best
exhibit of fruits of all kinds over all
other counties in Oregon and Washing
ton. 1t is important that at the next
exposition at Portland you make a bet
ter exhibit than last year otherwise you
will hQ fal 6on ~
will be determined effort by some of
the coast counties to contest for this
premium next fall. Your county being
now noted especially for the best fruit
in the northwest, ought to carry this
testimonial into the world fair in 1893,
and there maintain this reputation.
With a creditable exhibit such as east
ern Oregon can make of fruits, cereals,
minerals etc., etc., at the worlds fair,
you need not be asked by future tourists
as your citizens were by the. Presbyter-
ian tourists recently
"Why, where did all these flowers
come from2''
''Where did you get these fine straw
berries, and that big salmon?"
Say, my little boy, have You Sun
day school here?''
"Why, your women dress just the
same as ours do eastl''
There will be means provided by the
state or otherwise to send your county
exhibit to the words fair without further
expense than to get yours ready.
The result OF good exhibit at Port
land and Tacoma of your fruits this fall
will create increased demand and better
prices for your fruits in the future at
these and other points and at the worlds
fair cannot fail to bring thousands of
good citizens into this section with cap
ital to aid in the more rapid develop
ment of its resources which only for the
want of capital you have scarcely began
to realize.
The necessity for early. action arises
from the fact that the fruits of this Sec
tion are ten days to two weeks earlier in
| ripening than are those raised west of
the Cascades, though this isoccasionally
questioned by some Portland merchants.
We can prove this, not only at home,
by the shipment, as during the past two
week, of our green fruits, but by putting
them in jars for exhibit in Portland
and in the Columbian Expositions. y
In Wasco county's collection at Portland
last fall, there were no cherries. no ber-
ries OF any kind, no apricots, no early
fall or summer apples, no early pears
or plums, but few prnnes:or grapes and
no dried or canned, fresh or preserved
fruits and no jellies or jams of any kind.
Just see the varieties you can add to the
collection of fruits you had last year.