The record-union., 1893-10-28
MIDWINTER FAIR.
Northern and Central California Must
Wake Up.
What is Being Done Here and How
Southern California VIII be
Represented.

The suggestion that the counties of
Northern and Central California should
join together aud put up a building at
theMidwinter Fair ground in which to
make grand display Of the products OF
this section meets with general approval
among the people OF this city, and they
are ready to put up any amount necessary
to carry out Sacramento's share of the
programme. The advantages Of this plan
over separate county exhibits are so
many and so important, in consideration
of the fact that Southern California will
have separate building, that the propo-
sition needs only to be stated to be
promptly indorsed.
Captain T. B. Hall, President of the
Northern California Citrus Fair Associa-
ton and member of the Midwinter Fair
Committee appointed by the Board of
Supervisors, is actively at work in the
matter and confident of success. To
representative of the RECORD-UNIoN he
said Yesterday:
1T is the only thing that can be done
to give Northern and Central California
any kind of showing as against South
ern California. They are going to have
building of their own, and we must meet
equal or surpass them in everything.
This plan will not cost the counties as
much as it would to purchase space in
the agricultural and horticultural build
ings, where the exhibits would simply
be lost and would not serve for compari-
son with Southern California.
1--WE must recognize the fact that South
ern California has been so well adver-
tised that the people of the East think
that there is no other part of the State
worthy of attention. We must break
down this false impression. Let the peo-
pie who visit the Midwinter Fair see the
two sections represented, each in its own
building, and judge between them. The
result cannot help but be to our advan-
tage.
I'm order to accomplish this we must
start in at once. Let the enterprising
citizens of each county get together at
once, without waiting for the action Of
Boards OF Supervisors, and guarantee the
money for their proportion Of the cost of
the building, and appoint a committee of
one to meet with similar committee
from the other counties in San Francisco,
to select site. adopt plans for the build
ing and let the contract for its conStruc-
ton.
Placer County is already in line and
ready to go in. The matter will be taken
up for Solano County at meeting 10 be
G6lQ db OulSul1 nOAG 4OOSNAdy VI W GAlH6S-
day. Butte and Yuba Counties are also
moving. So far as Sacramento County is
concerned, she is ready to stand her full
proportion Of the expense. The money
will be forthcoming whenever it is
needed.
~ have one plan of a building already,
and expect another in day or two from
another architect. This plan has plenty
of room for the Citrus Fair in the center
and space for all the counties around it.
1t provides also Tor a fine roof garden.
The Northern Citrus Fair and the eXhib-
it's from the counties of Northern and
Central California ought to be ali placed
in a building like this, and Southern Cal
ifornia cannot commence to compare
with it.
This is our great opportunity, and we
ought to grasp it promptly. 1t is our last
chance to get this portion of the State
recognized by Eastern people as a part Of
California. We will be able to educate
the people more in six months in this
way than we could by the expenditure of
a million dollars i'll ten years in other
kinds of advertising.'
Erskine Greer, who is working on the
Sacramento County exhibit, is making
fine progress, and the display from this
county will be grand one.
The following dispatch from Los An
geleS, published yesterday morning,
SHOWS WnaI Is D6tLR QOU0 IN the southern
counties:
The third general meeting of the Mid
winter Fair Commission for the Southern
California counties was held this after
noon. Every county was represented,
but no definite action was taken beyond
the expression of the opinion that the ex-
hibit from this part of the State must be
made big success.
ar. H. Young reported on the sites
offered to Southern California for a
building.
after routine business the project of
erecting a general building for Southern
California was discussed. and it was de-
cided that at least S25, 900 should be put
in the structure, pro rated as follows
among the counties: Ventura, 81 ,3l2 80;
Orange, 81, $50 80; Santa Barbara, s., $50;
San Diego, $3.50; Riverside, 81, $50; san
BernardinO, 2,325; Los Angeles, SI2, 125.
1.-The project of not holding a citrus
fair this season in Southern California,
but merging it into the Midwinter Fair,
was favored, provided there were no in
superable legal difficulties.
IAN estimate of the space required by
each county was reported as follows in
square feet:
'Ventura, 1000; San Bernardino, 1000;
Riverside, 1000; Santa Barbara, 1000;
San Diego, 1000; Orange, 1000; Los An
geles, 9,00O."