The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-12-09
MAIN ENTRANCE TO HORTICULTURAL BUILD

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do SO in tho matter of prunes, ~raisins,
figs and the other dried fruits, but the
perishable nature of most of the mate
rails, ever with the advantage of cold
storage which will be accorded them,
will necessarily restrict the competition
TO localities from which the displays can
be r~eplenished as occasion requires. This
will give the California counties mani
fest advantages which they will not be
slow to act upon, for they are never slow
in anything.
In the showing of dried and canned
fruits, however, they realize that they
must do their best in a competition with
the older, though less favored, localities
in which the different varieties have
been made s~pecialties, and in these lines
they have devised some surprising
things. Fresno county, the greatest
raisin district in the world, for instance,
is to have a model of her beautiful court
house, the body of the building to be
constructed of raisins and the dome of
oranges. The dimensions of the model
will be so by 40 feet, and the dome will
VIC ~ 4ECl ll hEiSIb. 4HClC WILL DC pACu-
ty of room inside for visitors, and the
structure will have to be watchfully
guarded lest visiting vandals actually
eat it up.
There has been an orange war in Cali
fornia for several years. Outsiders do
not know much about it unless they have
visited the coast or take some California
paper, for Californians never mention
it when they go away from home. In
fact, Californians on their travels forget
all about sectional j~ealousies and neigh
borhood quarrels and speak of the entire
big state as if it were their parental
homestead, in every acre of which they
have a reyersionary interest. But the
orange wa has been waging neverthe-
less, though it may be considered a fra
ternal rather than a fratricidal strife,
and mention of it is made here, not fol-
the sake of calling outside attention tc
it, but to show how it is to benefit the
whole state.
1t is like this: There are in California
two separate and distinct citrus belts
meaning tiers of counties in which or.
>anges, lemons and other semitropical
fruits can be grown. One of these is in
the northern half Of the state and en-
braces the counties OF Colusa, Yuba,
Butte, Solaro, Placer, Sacramento and
Napa. The other is in the extreme south
ern part of the state and includes the
counties of San Luis Obispo, Santa Bar.
bara, Ventura, Orange and San Diego on
the coast and Kern and San Bernardinc
in the interior. Between these two sec
tions the greatest rivalry exists as tx
which raises the best fruits and offers thu
most inducements to intending settlers
Strange to say, oranges sometimes ripper
earlier in the northern belt, and much
has been made of this fact.
1t has been the custom for each O
these belts to have every year a citruI
fair of it's own, and the displays therea
have seemed simply marvellous to peopl
who live where oranges, lemons, figs
raisins and such things don't grow. Thi
year, however, melted by the genera
enthusiasm for the Midwinter fair which
pervades the state, both belts have agree,
10 hold their citrus fairs in the Sunse
City, and each has been assigned a loca
ton ear the Agricultural building
Their displays, combined with those Q
other localities and with the transcenden
doral possibilities Of the entire state, vii
give eastern visitors a w and NOR
adequate idea Of what the California
means when he calls his state s.the Ian
Of sunshine, fruit and flowers"
Altogether it looks as if the entir
Golden State were "out for d good time,
- the Native Sons ~jovially express it, Il
much ii being made of the amusemer
features Of the exposition, and the Sa
Hx1nctsco papers devote . great deal
spacs 10 informing the world at larf
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