The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1893-05-24
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LEADS.


The condition OF affairs at the world
fair, as reported to us by private advice
from those on the ground. is peculiarly
ediiyine, and indicates pretty clearly
the changed relations of the northern
and southern portions OF the state.
The section known az Southern Cali.
fornia, which includes the seven south.
ern counties, pays one-seventh of the
taxes of the state, has one-sixth OF the
population and seven-twentieths OF the
area of all OF California. As the case
now stands, this eection has about half
OF all the state exhibit worth mention
ing in Chicago. AS q San Francisco
paper puts it: 1.-THE impression given
to visitors at the worlds fair is that the
only cultivated portion OF California Ia
in the extreme south, and that the
northern and middle sections are only
mining camps"
When the allotment OF space was
made in the California building, the
southern counties, finding Themselves
unable to display all of their goods in
the room allowed them, decided to enter
come OF the department buildings and
make showing there. Room was
offered in the horticultural building for
grove of orange trees and for q number
OF orange pieces OF the sort with which
Los Angeles people are familiar the
citrus fairs. Two OF these latter, the
Grange tower and the liberty
bell worked out in oranges.
are described by the Chicago pa
pers as the most conspicuous and
popular displays in the building. The
grove of orange trees is also a drawing
card, and has received much favorable
notice from the eastern press. The
northern counties, on the other hand.
made no attempt to display their
products in any OF the department
buildings, except ia the one devoted to
the mining industry. As the California
building lie not yet opened, and the
public must depend for its ideas of this
section on whatever may bs seen in
the department buildings, it naturally
results that Southern California monopo-
Lies all the credit OF the show. Incl
dentally it may be observed that the
Florida orange show is said to be quite
insignificant when compared to that
OF Los Angeles, San Bernardino and
San Diego counties.
The northern people have consoled
themselves with the reflection that
when the California building is opened
their time will come; but from iniorma-
ton received at this Office from Chicago
1t appears that they are likely to suffer
"A disappointment. The building is now
sufficiently advanced to admit of the
unpacking and installing of the exhib-
its, and the work ia far enough under
way to show what the different sections
have to present to the public. When
the final touches are accomplished and |
the results are judged by the Califor-
mans and the world, we predict that
the southern section of the state will
carry Oft the honor to which she ia
justly entitled.
The state Of Ualifornia appropriated (
the sum of 100000 for atate dis
play, OF this amount 500 900 went into
q building, which is not vet completed,
and lie not likely to be entirely finished
untilnthe LIST OF July. The remaining
5000 900 was to be ueed for general
state. diaplay. 1t would seem that, pay
ing one-eeventh OF the taxes, this section
l.. at.k ADt,t1aA %
of that amount in some shape, viz,
about $50 900. Wherein has Southern
California been benefited by the labors
or even by the existence of the state
com misunderstanding out the matter of
the building? One concession was obs
tanned from the state for the south, and
that only after hard lightweight was
paid on all exhibits sent before the 1st
of May. The total amount thus ex-
pended by the state for Southern Cali
fornia is estimated by those having the
work in charge at about $500. The ex-
penses of preparing the exhibit of
Southern California and of installing
and maintaining it in Chicago have been
DOTUt w bIlo COuhtion IbcLneClNcbs ONcI
$4,000 was appropriated by the six
southern counties (Riverside having
then no existence), and but for this
money Southern California would have
no display whatever. This illustrates
very clearly what share the south gets
OF general state appropriations.
The aum of 5000, 900 has certainly been
spent by the commission outside of
what was put into the building. Either
the money was wasted or was spent on
the north. 1t certainly was not laid out
on the south.
When the final reckoning comes and
the financial reports OF the commission
are made public, we suspect that the old
story OF taxing the eouth to provide
money for the north to spend on itself
/ will be repeated.
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