The herald., 1893-02-20
COTTON CITRUS FAIR.
L. MI. HOLT SHOWS WHAT PRFPA.
NATIONS ARE UNDER WAY.
An Outline of What Has Been and win
Be Done to Make the Display
of Value to All Lo-
calities.

L. M. Holt writes to the HERA1n as
follows about the coming citrus fair at
Cotton:
The fourth annual state citrus fair
will be held at the new pavilion at Col.
ton, commencing March 10Th. The an.
plications for space from all parts Of
Southern California are more than
meeting the most sanguine expecta-
tons. We have the BEST pavilion in
Southern California for such an exhibit
We are arranging excursion trains Az
that all the strangers from the east who.
are now sojourning in Southern Califor-
mia and seeking information about cur
resources can be brought into that pavil-
ion at some time during the continu-
ance of the fair. There are more tour
lists and home seekers today in Southern
California than ever before in the his
tory OF our country, although in 1867
there may have been more spectators.
The exhibition of products which CON
be seen st that fair will exceed any pre-
vious exhibit made in this state. There
may not be as much of an architectural
display as there has been in San
Francisco, or there was last year
in Los Angeles, but for a solid, vau able,
attractive display OF products, the COM
ing state citrus fair will exceed any ex.
hibit ever before attempted in Southern
California. In addition to the wealth OF
citrus fruit which will be there in
abundance, we will have a collection of
exhibits prepared for the worlds fair
from the elk southern counties of Cali.
iornia. Every county in Southern Cali.
fornia is in duty bound to place a por.
ton of their worlds fair exhibit in the
citrus fair at Cotton. The expense OF
preparing it has been incurred, and our
people have readily consented to do the
work and should see the result of the
same, and if they cannot see it here bnt
small percentage of them will get ia
see it at Chicago.
Over 20 years experience in advertis.
ing Southern California has taught me
that an exhibit of our products placed
before 100 tourists and homessokeu
who are among us from the east, will do
the country far more good than TO have
that same exhibit placed before 100, 900
visitors to it and never expect to come
here. The floor space in the pavilion is
ample; the building covers nearly an
acre of ground; one side of it will be
devoted to worlds fair products and the
other side to citrus fruits. No such an
attractive arrangement has ever been pro-
vided before.
Los Angeles county cannot afford to
keep her products from the fair. San
Bernardino county has heretofore al
ways responded literally with products
and people to the citrus fair held in Los
Angeles. Our people feel now that they
have right to ask that Los Angeles
county shall respond when, for once,
the fair is held in locality where
within radius of 10 miles one-half oil
the oranges grown in the state are pro-
duced.
We have made arrangements with the
railway companies 80 that the world'i
fair exhibits can be taken from Cotton to
Chicago on passenger train service, thus
to be placed on exhibit there before the
opening Of the worldA fair.
Applications for space, or other, infor.
nation relative to the fair, may be had
by applying to Mr.. J. s. Wood at Col
ton, our secretary.
The management feel already like ex-
tending hearty thanks to the press oil
Southern California for the very gener.
GUS treatment they have already re.
ceived at their hands. Never before in
the history OF faira in this part of the
state has the press done 80 much for
such an enterprise as 1t has done this
year. Although Cotton is email sub
urban town, it ia in close proximity to
large towns, such as San Bernardino,
Redlands and Riverside, where ample
hotel accommodations can be had, with
only short motor ride at little more
than street car rates.
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