The San Francisco call., 1897-02-20
MENDOCINO DAY
At CLOVERDALE
Throngs Of Ukiah Citizens
Flock to the Citrus
Exhibit.
Snow Succumbs to Sunshine and
the Greatest Enthusiasm
Is Manifested.
Visitors Astounded at the Quan tity
and Quality Of the Magnificent
Display.

CLOVERDALE, CAL, Feb. 10. - No
huge snow man with oranges for eyes,
oranges for a nose and oranges for a
mouth greeted the Ukiah eIcursionists on
their arrival this afternoon to view the
Citrus Fair. The snow has all melted ex
cept high on the mountains where the
chill wind has full sweep; but the rounded
peaks, clothed in white, add picturesque
ness to the scene that IS not only a nov
city, but an example of the diversity of
climate above and below of this section.
The people from UkIah and intervening
towns made the most enthusiastic excur-
sion that has YET come into Cloverdale
during the fair. There was a long train
load of them. The clouds having rolled
by, they marched in a long procession
through the main streets to the pavilion,
glad 10 be on the scene. glad to represent
their own towns and rejoicing in the
variety of resources of the northern
Sonoma Valley, which are year by year
making themselves better known not
only in their own State, but all over the
| world. The large amount of home pride
that the people of northern Sonoma
/ Valley take in the Cloverdale Citrus Fair
is not usual with such exhibits and shows
; healthy interest that argues well for the
| prod ucts and enterprise OF this section.
For genuine interest and local pride in
the festival Cloverdale and the other
cities of the valley far excel Fresno and
! Its fine citrus fair of last Decemb Der. In
proportion 10 population the attendance
is much larger. There are people here
| from Fresno and Los Angeles and they
are astonished al the quality and quantity
/ of citrus fruits.
In Spain horticultural records say there
is an orange tree 750 years old. which
during its last season bore 10000 oranges.
Such great activity is being shown in this
vicinity in the planting of orange and
lemon trees that it will be only about 745
years short of 750 before the northern por-
ton OF this valley Will be a competitor in
all markets for citrus fruits with other
sections of California.
One of the best indications of this is the
general interest among the people of the
valley in what has already been done.
Luther Burbank of Sonoma has been here
several days, and he is a horticultural
authority. He said this afternoon:
LAS compared with all previous exhi-
bitions OF citrus fruits the present fair is
| much more than an advaucement-it is
| transformation. The flavor OF the oranges
| grown here equals any in the State The
grain of the rind may be little coarser
| and the oranges larger, but that is an in
dicatlon of young trees. This section of
! Sonoma County is destined to be an i'm
! portant orange and lemon producing
country. The lemons are already super
! fine.
! 1.-The pavilion was packed again this
afternoon and tonight. One of the local
drawing cards is Miss Mabelle Smith,
young lady cornet-soloist, II years OF age.
| She has talent and a rare expression in
| execution, and a large share OF the ap-
! piause OF the prolnenading multitude goes
| to her. The address of the evening was
! delivered by Mrs. Anna Morrison Reed OF
Lay tonville, a handsome woman, who is
said to have no equal i'll the State as
| lady orator.
She was introduced by Mrs. J. A.
Kleiser, and began with a story of the
| planting of the first experimental orange
trees by lady of the speakers acquaint-
ance, who came across the plains to join
her husband in California. She referred
] TO the planting OF the famous "original'
orange tree at BIdwelrs Bar, Butte
! County, and covered these first attempts
at growing citrus fruits in California in
graphic and eloquent laneuage.
! wherever the purple fig will mature to
perfection" said the speaker "there
! oranges may be grown, and as fine figs as
l have ever seen were grown at Blue
Lakes, Lake County. The orange crop for
the whole State of California for the season
| of 1S96-97 is estimate at 1915 carloads, the
! area set in oranges 10000 acres. With the
demand for California oranges all over the
| Union and orders coming even from
| Florida, an orange producing State, and
| the promised tariff protection, the orange
industry has as bright an outlook as any
| in the State.
81 believe with General Cnipman that
California is destined to be the
orchard of America Here in Sono-
ma, with your 100000 acres OF land
as rich and productive as ever smiled
in the face of heaven-alI of which, ex-
cept that bordering on the coast,
can be successfully cultivated to
the fig, the grape, the olive and
the orange, with rapid and cheap
! transportation by railroad whose
management is renowned from one bound
ary of the State to the other for its gener-
| osity and fairness 10 the citizen and the
producer, you should be the banner citrus
producing county of Northern California.
| lou people have no excuse for poverty;
you have every opportunity and Incentive
to be self-supporting, independent and
even rich. hope that every man, woman
and child within the sound of my voice
| will 60 home from this fair and plant an
| orange tree.
''The people who have planned these