The record-union., 1893-07-29
TIME TO WAKE UP,
Words That Apply to Other Counties
Than Placer.

Than Placer.
From the Newcastle News, July 26th1
For some unexplained reason Placer
County does not appear to be securing the
results which appropriations by our
! FSupervisors of over $1,000 for the Chicago
Worlds Fair Exposition would seem to
warrant. Complaints are being regularly
received from the manager of the Placer
County exhibit now in Chicago that he
| is not receiving enough green fruits for
the exhibit, and that people want to
actually see and handle the fruit in its
natural state, as well as in its preserved
! condition, and that they cannot believe
that our green fruits really excel in all
respects the preserved article.
In some quarters a perfect howl seems
to be going up because all the fruit-grow-
ers do not rush in at once with large of
ferings for this purpose. This is all easily
<snough explained by thoughtful per-
son, and part of such explanation is
| that the fruit producers have for the past
ten years been donating freely of all their
crops in the order of their ripenIng, from
Strawberries to oranges, and that the Gus
| tom has at last become burdensome The
! question may be pertinent: why should
the fruit men assume all the weight in
carrying on such matters ?" Is not the
merchant, the professional man, the hotel
! keeper, the livery man, the cattle raiser
man, or any other taxpayer of the county
equally interested with the fruit-raiser in
inducing others TO come in and clear up
our brushy hillsides and valleys, and re-
duCe the tax rate for all of us?
Another point is, that as class there
are fewer fruit-raisers who want to sell
their homes than can be found in any
other class of our people. This point is
illustrated by the reply of Newcastle
orchardist to would-be purchaser from
Oakland few days ago: 81 do not know
what my little piece is worth; it is not for
sale. 1t paid me ten per cent. upon a
| valuation of thirty thousand dollars last
year. / have knocked about the world a
! good deal, and now my farm is my home.
! | propose to raise and educate my chill
| dren upon it, and when kind providence
| calls me from my present sphere of use
| fulness | will leave for my children a
| home and heritage Of which l am proud,
and which will be permanent as the
eternal hills. No. sir; you can't buy my
! placeW
These remarks are to call attention to
] the necessity of some other action in re-
! gard to Placer's exhibit at Chicago,
! Somebody wants to wake up, buy fruit
and forward it, and do it at once, or else
the money already expended would
| have been better in the vaults of our
county treasury. There is fair outlook
! for just such a result in regard to our
| Midwinter Fair. The Board of Super
visors has refused to appropriate the
/ funds which should be Immediately
available for the successful prosecution
OF this work. There are varieties of
fruits which are already out of reach, and
others are ripening, which should be Sc
cured and preserved, and material for
| their preservation is also required at
! once.
! The next regular session of the Board
| of Supervisors will be held in October. 1t
! will then be too late for Placer to secure
| the necessary products for the Midwinter
! Fair. There will be special session of
| the Board of Supervisors on July 3lst. Is
| it not possible to awaken a due apprecia-
| ton OF the responsibility that rests upon
/ them by that time? Can we not then
! settle whether we shall become retro
! ressioIists-whether the silurian and
mossback element take the place Of our
wide-awake and energetic leaders for the
| past ten years.