The record-union., 1899-05-25
FACTS ABOUT FAIR OAKS.
THE MODEL COMMUNITY OF
THE COUNTY.
Where People Live Like Christians
and Are Establishing Homes
for the Future.
Correspondence Record -Union.)

Fair OAKS, MAY NttH
This is one of the most active and
wideawake towns of the State. There
is work for everybody and help is called
in from the outside. The carpenters
are busy and some of them have more
work than they can handle. Mr..
Broadley is employing help. Non-res-
ident owners OF land are planning their
houses and barns Some will be built
this year. The question of better and
more direct communication to Sacra-
mento is agitated- The citizens of Fair
Oaks are forging ahead and are impa-
tient because so many things not In
their control move so slowly. Since
the old company ceased to manage the
affairs of this town everybody is eX-
pecting some announcement from some
new management Many things are
now being closed up in very satis-
factory manner, and the confidence of
the community grows with the pro-
gress made in adjusting the affairs Of
the company.
1t is gratifying to note that a better
class Of fruit trees is planted, that the
tracts cared for by the company have
better attention and that all the or
chards are thriving. 1t has been a Sc
earlier work and rush of planting and
caring for trees, the owners have been
greatly disappointed both in kind and
quality of trees and in the care of the
same. The best tracts, however, are
those planted and cared for by the own
ers themselves. This much seem cer-
tain: All things are moving in the
right direction, and the citizens are not
at al. behind in manifesting their
strong faith in the future of Fair Oaks.
There is faith in the orange. This
locality claims all the rolling orange
land between Porterville and Orovile,
the only belt of orange land which can
send it's fruit early to market in good
condition. Second, the olive claims the
attention of most Of the fruit growers.
The pomelo has a few stanch follow
ers, who stoutly maintain that it is the
coming fruit for this locality Lemons
seem to have setbeck, not proving
hardy enough, except in the most favor
cd placss, which are given to the orange.
Besides the energy and push SO evil
dent in starting the fruit industry nur-
series and the like, a very marked ac-
tivity IS shown in the establishment Of
such institutions as make the most for
right living. Since the year began a
fine church has been erected, and be-
fore six months of the year are gene
it will be we'll furnished and free from
debt, and. best of all, it is regularly
filled with earnest church going people,
The liberal spirit and broad culture Of
the people permit all denominations to
join heartily in the building and sup
porting of a good NJ. E. Church. This
church organization started as a pion-
eer church, but has grown into a mem
orial one, in honor of one of the great
leaders of Methodism in this country,
Bishop Taylor.
An academy has been established, a
large building erected and a faculty pro-
vided for academic, high school, college
preparatory work, and a complete bus
mess college course of instruction, in
Guiding stenography and telegraphy.
This institution is not built for the ben
eft of Fair Oaks alone, but because
Fair Oaks offers a combination of ad-
vantages for such an institution, which
makes it one of the best localities for
students who leave the common school
to find all the advantages of a first
class school, without the disadvantages
found so often in larger cities and VIII
lagos. 1t has been established here in
order TO throw around pupils who, for
the first time, leave the protection of
home, that moral protection which a
society free from saloons, composed of
church-going people and of such a high
character that schools and churches are
natural product of the spirit of the
people, alone can furnish. All this
has been done. and one-half the year
has not passed.
Many other matters are occupying the
attention of the people. looking to the
higher good Of the community and TO
the greater privileges of living. Credit
should be given to the support already
extended by those who have property
here and expect to come here to make
their homes. They have assisted ma
terially in all this work. 1t is but just
that they should do so. 1t should not
be the burden of the pioneers to do all
the hard work of securing these advan-
tages Of which the future residents will
share the benefits
A sister of Paul Pause of Chicago will
be visitor at Fair Oaks soon.
Colonel Thompson Of Iowa is at Fair
Oaks
r. V. Dixon. Principal of the busi-
ness department of the academy, has