Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-08-21
CALIFORNIA FRUITS
A GREAT STATE AND SOME OF
ITS PRODUCTS.
OUR WONDERFUL SIGHTS
Thousands Go Abroad to See Won
ders and Neglect the Surprising
Grandeur of America-Fruits Dis
cussed From Medical Stand
point.

1t seems more than passing strange
people who cross the ocean to view
the foreign countries. Thousands of
American citizens of wealth have
been abroad and done" the foreign
! countries, who have never stood en-
raptured before the mighty Mag ara;
who have never beheld the lofty pin
nacles of Colorado bluffs and can
yons; who have never crossed the
great divide or travelled the great
desert that leads onward to the land
of fruits and flowers-California No
foreign country can equal, or, for that
matter, approach the ATTRACTIONS, the
magnitude of productions that Cali
fornia offers to the nature lover or
the observing tourist.
The state with it's 158,360 square
miles, is truly an immense nature en-
cyclopedia. Its mines, giant trees.
fruits, nuts, vegetables, are endless
sources of wealth. The mountains,
continually snow-capped, look down
on fertile valleys bright with flowers
and fruits-that never are blighted by
winters icy touch. The variation
in the states climate is so great that
there are sections of perpetual ice
and snow, and at the same time other
sections where nature is ever clad
/ with her brightest colors; where
growth never ceases. From these
| two extremes there is the usual eli
matte or temperature variations that
go to make up delightful results in
farming and fruit and grain growing
! 1t seems California has sections that
are almost identical with nearly
every state in the union when climate
and production are concerned.
w. II. Murray, representative of the
| California Fruit Grower, says: Few
people in the east appreciate what a
| big state California is in the matter
| of area alone. 1t has a coast line of
more than 700 miles and an average
breadth of more than 200 miles. The
/ number of acres is calculated to be
! 101, $50 400, near equal to New Eng
| land, New York and Pennsylvania
combined The annual fresh fruit
shipments amount to 10000. 900
pounds: tho cured fruit output, TO-
100000 pounds; the prune crop, no.
100000; raisins. S5,000000 pounds;
canned fruits and vegetables $780,
900: oranges and lemons, cars, 20 900;
nuts, cars, $50; honey product, 3,000,-
600 pounds; vegetable shipments,
cars, $780,; beans, 100000 pounds;
hops, bales, $4,000; beet sugar, 65,-
100000; wines and brandy, gallons,
23,O00,000; gold, $15,500,000 These
are some of the notable products of
| the state, but there are almost end
| less other industries that are also
wondrous sources If wealth The
poultry industry is making rapid
| strides. and, like nearly all of Cali
| fornia's products. in many sections
the business is being conducted on a
| large scale"
Mr.. Murray is a great advocate of
| ripe fruit as an aid to digestion, and
concludes that liberal ues of fruits
| is beneficial to the general health of
mankind He says: MANY drugs
are tdkSH WHICH Siloulu De IepidCeu III
a great measure by ripe fruits Many
parents will more readily spend
| money on injurious or even poisonous
sweets than they will on good, health
full fruit. and fashionable society will
spend pounds on cakes, wines and
brandies, while they spend as many
shillings on the very thing they need
to keep them healthy-fruit. And as
4, for the amount of drugs swallowed
which should be replaced in a great
measure by fruit, it is beyond my pow
ers to calculate. Millions upon mil
lions of pounds are spent annually
upon mercurial and other purgatives,
most of which would be quite unnec-
essary If the people would but look
upon fruit as a necessary article of
diet.
Good ripe fruit contains a large
amount of sugar in a very easily di-
gested form. This sugar forms light
| nourishment, which, in conjunction
with bread. rice, etc. forms food es-
pecially suitable for these warm col
onies: and when eaten with. say milk
or eggs, the whole forms the most
perfect and easily digestible food inn
| aginable. I received a book lately