The record-union., 1893-10-26
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND THE
MIDwINTER FAIR.

The Midwinter Fair preparation has so
far progressed that it is certain the expo
sition will be held. It will be the first OF
its order and must attract to this section a
great deal of desirable attention-in fact
it is to be one of the greatest events in all
our history.
The question that now arises is how can
the fair be rendered most beneficial TO the
State. Among the many suggestions in
response, is one that is of highest local
importance, namely, the proposition for
a joint exposition of their products and
manufactures, on the part of groups of
counties, in buildings to be erected by
such groups.
Southern California counties, only
seven In number, have already SO
grouped themselves, and propose to erect
a building at the Midwinter Fair for the
exposition of the products of such coun-
ties. This plan it is believed will be car
ried out, though the full agreement of all
the southern counties has not yet been
had, but certainly will be.
Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley
and the mountain and foothill counties of
Central and Northern California, thirty
two in number, would make one appro-
pirate group, and the coast and coast val
ley counties, seventeen in number, would
make another and natural group, which
trio, by prompt and enthusiastic effort
could and should erect either one or two
buildings on the fair grounds for the pur-
poses indicated, namely, the proper ex-
position OF the products and industries of
Northern and Central California.
But there must be at least one Northern
California structure, whether the coast
counties Of the center and north enter
into the scheme or not.
Such showing at the coming exposition
will be infinitely superior to distinct
county exhibits in crowded booths lost
in main building. The sum of money
it would require to fit up the booth ex-
hibits for all the central and northern
counties, together with the payment
for floor space, will pay twice over for the
erection of one or two handsome Central
and Northern California buildings.
This union of effort will give US grand
exhibition that will command for the
center and north the attention the region
deserves, and which it cannot receive if
its endeavor is diffused over some thirty
or forty distinct county exhibits. More
over, we have arrived now at a stage in
generous rivalry with our brethren of the
south end of the State, when we will as
suredly be left behind if we do not meet
their splendid efforts by those equally
creditable to our section.
Southern California separates herself
out, and has done so all along, and she
has been the distinct gamer by that
procedure. At the Columbian Exposition
she made herself distinctively felt by that
method, and punctuated the fact of
Northern California's absence at the ex-
position in a manner most humiliating
to US.
We need here in the center and north
precisely the unity that exists below the
Tehachipi range. On whatever else the
southern counties disagree, they consti-
tute a unit on the one question of South
aru California T,rO,,,o+i0p
IF anyone should ask: "What benefit
will accrue from a distinctive Northern
and Central California exhibit at the Mid
winter Fair in a sectional building ?" he
would argue his lack of intelligence and
his failure to observe what is going on
around him. The answer is too obvious
to need words.
In this age of sharp contests and the
success of the fttest, the battle is not
alone to the strong, but to the wide
awake, the brainy and the alert. The
whole State has witnessed the marvellous
progress of the southern counties with
admiration, not awakened by the natural
advantages of the locality, for those in the
northern and central counties are greater,
but by the splendid spirit of the people;
their alertness; their sagacity; their un-