The Ely miner., 1900-10-12
CALIFORNIA; SPLENDID SHOWING
AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION.

Following is an extract from letter
recently written by Mr.. VIM. Fl. 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 wonderful
State; also for the valuable informa-
ton it contains, and for which it is here
reproduced:
Paris, July 18th, 1900.
The panorama picture Of the Mariposa
Grove is admitted by all, including pho
tographers, to be the most wonderful pho
tographic Teproduction tnaI mas eyer , pegn Deea
resenting the greatest Fruit-Growing As
sociation of France. to the number of ff-
esarse Of their Who is the
largest Individual fruit grower in the
Republic. They came here to get an Illus
tration of the Industrial and & Giimatlc fs n con-
I explained to them fully the prolific char,
acter of our climate, and by pictures ana
illustrations showed them that we had q
from over-bearing; that In no instance
had we missed two crops, In succession
from any cause. You VIII scarcey thy un- iI
terview until it is explained that TINS
Fruit Growing Association practices fruit
culture in two ways, Wall-culture ana
designations). The outdoor cultivation or
fruit in France is extra a-hazardous and Is
fast being superseded by the artinclal
means of wall and glass.
The gentlemen who were here yester-
day explained that the most prontaple
cultivation was that wherein all the rae
tors of success were in the hands OF the
cultivator. / have used this argument
many times for the promotion Of the policy
Of irrigation. I have said that when the
moisture can be controlled. both with ref,
erence to moisture and drainage. civilized
culture will have been achieved; that at
that point only 1t becomes an art, but
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 I explained, however. the condi-
tions under which fruit was grown in
California, it became apparent both to my,
conditions in California are as nearly per-
feet for the production of fruit, as 1t Is
possible to be, and that at all events
there are economies 91t Eets Ten us as tbn World T
You may accept this conclusion as DEM
onstrated by our exhibit and observation
here CALIFORNIA is hereafter @ os to De Shine ine
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 APP
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. | have
never heard, more genuine p 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 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 su-
perior 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-hve
or eighty feet high. After what we had
told them of the favoring conditions OF
the heart of one of our greatest forests
by the best representation which can be
placed upon paper You can nave no
adequate conception of how 1t 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 panorama
high. and Representing five hundred acres
of prune orchard. We had shown them
twenty-one square miles in one panorama
of a fruit orchard in Vaca Valley. We had
shown them large fruits and large veg,
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 proba-
bility ard confirmation.