The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-17
What the San Joaquin Farmer
Can Grow Upon Hs
Acres.
Visitors Marvel at the Diversified
Resources of the Fertile
Valley.


THE CALLS Fresno weather prophet made
a good guess yesterday when he said the
atmosphere would be clear to-day. 1t
required two ticket sellers to accommo-
date the visitors and for the first time
since it opened the san Joaquin County
Citrus Fair had pig crowd present. The
musical programme was especially at
tractive and there were vocal selections by
the Apollo Club, local organization of
fourteen voices. The crowds swarmed
among the exhibits and it was typical
fair scene.
Tomorrow is San Joaquin day. Friday
will be childrens day. Saturday will in
all probability be called San Francisco
day. Tomorrow there will be big ex-
cursion over the valley road from Stock
ton. The Stockton Commercial Associa-
ton will come down in a special car. The
Mill City visitors will be met at the train,
which arrives at 1850 A. NJ, and re-
ceiye hearty welcome. The band will be
there and the members of the Hundred
Thousand Club and the Chamber of Com
merce will turn out to escort the excur-
sionists and the Commercial Association
up town.
There will be some speech making at
the pavilion in the afternoon, and a recep-
tion and probably some speeches in the
evening. George E. Church will deliver
the address of welcome, and the response
will be made by President P. A. Buell. of
the Stockton Commercial Association.
A special admission price has been made
for Friday-children' day-and all the
little Lord Fauntleroys, sons, heirs and
heiresses in Fresno and within ten miles
around are expected to be there in their
best bib and tucker. There is some talk
of placing tireplace-screens over the
oranges. figs and raisins. The lemons and
lines will take care of themselves.
On the late train tonight committee
of the fair management went to San Fran
cisco TO arrange for an excursion from San
Francisco to the citrus fair The commit
tee is composed of A. R. Briggs, &. H.
Markham. A. Gartenlaub, o. ]. Woodward
and Lewis Gundlehnger. The city of
Fresno contributed literally to the Mid
winter Fair, and its people believe those of
the metropolis ought to come and see the
first great midwinter citrus fair ever held
in the State. Saturday, the last day of
the fair; has not yet been ehristened with |
any particular name, but the committee
would like to call it San Francisco day,
and probably will.
The sun came out this afternoon and
drove the clouds away. Over drying,
steaming roads and pavements the people
wendell their way to the pavilion. The
management was correspondence CRATE
full for the at least temporary withdrawal
of Jupiter Pluyius from his depressing
competition with the citrus fair. The
sunshine changed the roof of thin
shakes into a mantle OF beautiful soft
straw tints, while here and there stream
of sunshine, magniiying with the distance
it traversed, fell with 4 clearer yellow on
the golden fruit or dotted the floor. The
urchin who tried to peep through hole
in the roof made a dark shadow upon IL
and was quickly chased of to the ground.
That boy. from his feeting birdseye view
of the wonders beneath probably had an
idea that the San Joaquin Valley raises
everything under the sun except icic.es
and snow balls. After an hour or two OF
inspection and study on the inside, the
average spectator receives about the same
impression as he boy.
In the San Joaquin Valley are certainly
raised some of the fruits and vege tables
that grow in every known climate, begin
ming with the snow on the surrounding
mountainous and ending with the cacti
on the plains. Following is a complete
list of the great variety of things seen in
the exhibits of San Joaquin, MERGED, Ma
dera, Fresno, Tulare and Stanslaus coun-
ties. Kings and Kern counties not being
represented:
oranges by the ton, in bulk, baskets. pyramids |
and piles
Lemons ditto.
T rs in boxes and glass cases
Raisins in vast array, in gass-covered boxes, !
pasteboard packages, inclOsng seedless pre-
parations, and open boxes for this IS
the TalSln center There seems to
be enough of them 10 repave
Market street.
Prunes by the carload.
Apples in about thirty varieties that rival the |
finest raised in New York or New England.
Grapes in punches looking as fresh as though just |
pucked from the vine.
A bunch Of roses.
branches heavy with dates tackled to many promi- |
nent posts and points in the pavilion.
Twelve of the 2700 known varieties of cacti in
an unpronounceable scientific
name GOT long.
Art pottery.
Rattan furniture.
Flour, cornmeal, oatmeal; bar ey
Spongeplant for bathtnb use.
Macaroni from spaghetti size 10 large sheets of It
Oran9e ees bearing fruit
Beaus-smaIl whites. pink rlackeye, rel, kidney,
bayou, Lady Washington. refugee.
Hops
Honey in The comb.
Wines-Muscat, Burger, Madeira. Relsling, Opor-
TO- Amontila1o, An .eiica, Tokay. Champagne,
hook Port, sherry, Burgundy Cutedel, Ciaret.
Zlnfendel, sauterne. Malaga, White
Spirits-Whisky, peach br2ndies.
Extract OF lemon.
Perfumes.
Pumpkins OF hogshead girth.
cluster chrysanthemums.
Orange sugar.
SouaShes.
Orange pomade.
Poa
Orange flower water.
Neroli. made from orange petals.
Pure extract of orange.
Lemon jelly.
Cirrus orange peel.
Redwood and redwood bark. one tall column OF
" hicb will be raffied for he benefit OF cripple.
Cotton
Coolers (alias peanuts)
Tobacco.
Ornaments of gum trees with beautiful oval
Eucalyptus Rudis Eudlicher.
Corn the Cub.
More roses.
Turnips of great size.
Pomegranates
Persm mons. ripe and green enough TO pucKer up
the mouth of the san Joaquin River
Sheaves OF wheat
Shocks of corn.
sugar
Brown corn.
Onions (the nervous mans friend).
Peppers as hot as am one in this word or the
next could wish.
Watermeons, out of cold storage.
Apricots.
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