Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-10-12
CALIFORNIA; SPLENDID SHOWING
AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION.

Following is an extract from a letter
recently written by Mr.. VIM. II. Mills,
of California, while in Paris in charge
of the Southern Pacific Company's ex-
hibit at the Exposition. 1t is remark
able for two reasons, first, as evidence
of the great interest which is every
where manifested in that wonderfulo
State; also for the valuable informa-
ton it contains, and for which it is here
reproduced:
Paris, July 18th. 1900.
c rhe ia admtted by ali including pSo
tographers. to be the most wonderful pho
tographic reproduction that has ever been
made. Only yesterday Committee rep
resenting the greatest Fruit-Growing As
ISOLATION of France. to the number of tif-
s efsn s'5 oi shear P4ssiaent Who the
largest individual fruit grower In the
tTation Of the Industrial and climatic con-
ditions under which our fruit Is gr3wn-
illustrations showed them that we had a
from rDi ef oppe rl that in no instance
had We missed two crops In succession
d deG@ the Sad Intense Interest Of
R5sssIsss s5 ans
cultivating under glass q forego French
designations). The outdoor cultivation on OF 3I
fast being superseded by the artificial
means of wall and glass.
day explained that the most profitable
| cultivation was that wherein all the fac
e cult aet 1 have used this argument
many times for the promotion Of the policy
moisture in can be Controlled. both with ref
erence to moisture and drainage, civilized
that point only 1t becomes an art: but
| where natural conditions are depended
man, the cultivation has not risen to the
dignity Of an art. Its main factors are at
When 1 explained, however. the condi-
! tons under which fruit was grown In
California 1t became apparent bot both 70 my
conditions In California are as nearly per
| feet for the production of fruit as 1t is
there are. economies with us which VIII
give US the fruit markets. of the world
onstrated by our exhibit and observation
here. California is hereafter to be the
will be more easily made apparent in
personal interview.
T Win ao@ 1Gr
the interest Of the exhibit in showing the
prunss the the peaehss. the Pears. the ap
pies. the vegetables in all their varieties,
The day was extremely hot and the In
terview had become monotonous called
they could get a good view Of the pan
/ Drama of the great tree grove. I have
| never heard more genuine expressions OF
| surprise and admiration. The President
| of the Association. a man of fine mentality
| and dignity of character, said, through the
| interpreter to me. that the picture was
/ the most beautiful presentation of a for
| est he had ever seen and the forest was
| the most beautiful Of any that had ever
| been shown abroad. The forest as ex-
| pressed in that picture is Infinitely SUI
| perior to any forestry expression possible
| here. The largest pine tree saw in Ger
| many was less than twenty-four inches
in diameter. and not to exceed seventy five
| or eighty feet high. After what we had
| told them of the favoring conditions Of
climate and soil. we introduced them into
the heart of one of our greatest forests
| by the best representation which can be
placed upon paper. You can hayee no
and dignffied and ennobled our State. We
had shown them panorama pictures, pic
lures of prune orchards in bloom. pic
| lures of orchards. one OF which ie most
| marvellous presentation, the panorama
| itself being six feet by fourteen inches
| high. and representing five hundred acres
/ of prune orchard We had shown them
twenty-one square miles in one panorama
| of fruit orchard In Vaca Valley. We had
shown them large fruits and large veg
| etabIes. and all these things had appealed
| to them as exceptional. The panorama OF
the great forests OF California, including
| the greatest trees that grow In the State.
conferred upon the entire exhibit probae
1 bility and confirmation.