The herald., 1896-02-05
BAKING POWDER

Riverside and Rust and Clarke of Pasa.
dena arranged for monster citrus fair at
Chicago. Riverside sent three of her
prominent citizens, whose expenses she
| choicest fruit. Los Angeles did nothing
worth mentioning, and Riverside, Pasa-
deDa and Santa Ana bore the most of the
immense burden of this magnificent affair.
No attempt at advertising a states re-
sources ever equaled in its effect this un-
ton TO hundreds of thousands of people of
,he wonderful advantages offered by South
ern California AS place for enjoyable
residence and for profitable investment.
10 it, AS we believe, more than 10 all
other influences combined, may be direct
ly traced the impetus which led to the inn
Inense immigration of the years succeed.
ing, and which was only checked by the
collapse which inevitably follows over
growth. Los Angeles in a few years, as
the result. grew from little more than
country village to a city of metropolitan
characteristics. She owes this in large
degree to the three or four fruit towns
whose contributions OF fruit and money
gave the incentive. AS We have said. the
Riverside men who gave from their small
means the cash ami fruit which made
the fair success are the ones
whom the most widely circulated jour
nal in this end of the state presumes
to lecture as to tieir duty, and to advise
10 turn their orchards into alfalfa fields
for the benefit of new settlers who would
like the productive acreage destroyed that
they may be permitted to reap reward
they have never earned. Riverside fruit
from these orchards sold at $3.50 box
i'll Chicago at the time of the great fair. 1t
was good then. 1t was deemed good enough
three or four years later to be used for an
other fair in New York, where it supplied
four.fiths of that displayed for the good OF
fAl.c ~ H,Isc nd
vertsing cost the writer $500 and half as
much more in fruit, and he knows of what
he is speaking, for he gave his free service
i'll both the great eastern fairs. Fruit
grown in Riverside has never failed, when
put in competition with that of other Sec
tions, TO carry off a large majority of the
premiums, sometimes three-fourths OF all |
offered, and this, too, where such exhibit
tions we're under the management of those |
who could not be charged with any undue |
friendship for her. 1t is true that frost |
has several times injured the fruit in River.
side orchards, but In some of them serious
harm has been done but once in twenty |
years. 1t is also true that fruit has occas-
ionally been hurt just as badly in sec
tons which now make claims of entire |
exemption, which claim would not now |
be made by honest men if they had been
residents of such localities in 1879 and
other bad years. There is no objection
to the telling of the truth, but let it be at
tempted by those who know concerning
that which they spsak, and who are beyond
the suspicion of improper motives The
orchards which, more than anything else,
have made California famous for her citrus
fruits, are not to be destroyed at the be-
hest and in the interest of tenderfoot mil
ionaires who seek to limit production that
old-time profits for themselves may be Sc
cured. The men who have helped TO make
this country have few rights which they
will maintain even against the slanderer
of his section who, unfortunately for
Southern California, controls the policy of
a widely circulated journal. The valley |
that has made California famous for fine
fruit will keep on growing it in quantity
exceeding that of any other in the state
Riverside Press.