The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-10-12
CALIFORNIA; SPLENDID SHOWING
AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION.

AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION.
Following is an extract from 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. It is remark
able for two reasons, first, as evidence
of the great interest which is every
where manifested in that wonderful
State; also for the valuable informa-
ton it contains, and for which it is here
reproduced:
The panorama picture of the Mariposa
Grove is admitted by all, including pho
tographers. to be the most wonderful pho
made. Only yesterday Committee rep
resenting the greatest Fruit-Growing As
ISOLATION of France. to the number of fif-
charge of their President, who is the
largest, Individual fruit grower In the
fra5on Of the induatriai and d. climatic con-
ditions under which our fruit is grown.
I explained to them fully the prolific char
illustrations showed them that we had
full crop every year; that our danger was
from over-b bearing; that in no instance
from any cause. You will scarcely un-
derstand the intense interest of this in
I6EVlG" Until Is e6pidiuGu tIdC tHlS
Fruit-Growing Association practices fruit
culture in two ways, wall-culture and
cultivating under glass q forego French en-
fruit in France is extra hazardous and is
fast being superseded by the artificial
means of wall and glass.
The gentlemen who were here yeSter.
day. explained that the most profitable
cultivation was that wherein all the fac
cultivator. have used this argument
many times for the promotion of the policy
of irrigation. have said that when the
erence to moisture and drainage, CT LIKED
culture will have been achieved; tnat at
upon and are not under the control of
man; the cultivation has not risen to the
dignity of an art. Its main factors are at
When ! explained, however. the condi-
tons under which fruit was grown in
California, 1T became apparent both to my
conditions in California are as nearly per-
possible to be, and that at all events
there are economies with us which will
give us the fruit markets. of the world.
You may accept this conclusion as DEM
onstrated by our exhibit and observation
here. California is hereafter to be the
will be more easily made apparent in a
personal interview.
The, reason for the foregoing narration
the interest Of the exhibit in showing the
fruits, the pineapples. the dates, the
prunes, the peaches, the pears, the ap-
Piles, the vegetables in all their varieties,
etc.
The day was extremely hot and the in
terview had become monotonous. called
the company into an attitude in which
they could get a good view Of the pam
Drama of the great tree grove. I have
never heard more genuine expressions of
surprise and admiration. The President
of the Association. man of fine mentality
and dignity Of character, said. through the
Interpreter to me, that the picture was
the most beautiful presentation of for
est he had ever seen and the forest was
been shown abroad. The forest as ex-
pressed in that picture is infinitely su-
pertor to any forestry expression possible
here. The largest pine tree I saw in Ger
many was less than twenty-four inches
in diameter. and not to exceed seventy-five
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 representa- ton which can be
placed upon paper. You can have no
adequate conception Of how it broadened
had shown them panorama pictures. pic
lures of prune- orchards in bloom, pic
lures of orchards, one Of which is most
marvellous presentation. the panora ma
Itself being six feet by fourteen inches
high. and representing five hundred acres
twenty-one square miles In one panorama
of a fruit orchard in Vaca Valley. We had
shown them large fruits ard large veg
etables. and all these things had appealed
to them as exceptional. The panorama of
the great forests of California, including
conferred upon the entire exhibit proba-
bility and confirmation.