The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-06
HUGE EXHIBITS
FOR ST. LOUIS
Ton Weight Is Officially
Credited to One
Cheese.
Oranges Are Pledged by Car
Load to Advertise
the State.

The California commissioners to the st.
Louis Exposition held an important meet
ing IN this city yesterday. They decided
definitely that the California building at
st Louis must be completed and the keys
in the possession of the commissioners by
January l next. After some delay the
specifications have been sent on for final
approval of the exposition authorities.
An answer by wire as to whether they
are entirely satisfactory had been re-
quested. The outlook is good that the
contract for bids for construction Of the
building will be advertised within the
next fortnight. The time that it will take
TO build is estimated at about thirty days
by Commissioners Filcher and Virgins.
Announcements were made at yesterdays
meeting of great interest to the State.
One was that the forestry, agriculture
and horticulture exhibits of the State al
st. Louis will surpass any ever made at
any worlds fair. This has been deter
mined to be the fact by the returns al
ready made and by comparison with what
has been done at other times. 1t was
also announced that the biggest collection
of Pacific Coast fish up to date has been
secured. A great show at st. Louis In
behalf of California is assured in the
lines of education and arts.
Southern California comes to the front
with a huge walnut elephant to illustrate
the walnut growing industry of the State.
This elephant will be thirteen feet high
and will weigh about two tons. When
Commissioner Filcher heard of this he re-
ported a gigantic cheese that will be pro-
Vided to indicate the dairy industry of
the northern part of the State This enor-
nous cheese would cut up into enough
cheese sandwiches to furnish the entire
attendance for day at st. Louis. Fill
cher confessed with evident pride that
the cheese will weigh one ton.
Virgins told then of the offer of the
Southern California Citrus Fruit Agency
to provide a sufficient quantity of citrus
fruits by the carload to keep up the rep
utation of California in great shape, and
Commissioner Filcher said that the north
ern counties would also provide citrus
fruits in great quantities
A display of California apples will be
made at st. Louis that will rival those
of even Illinois, Ohio and all other apple
producing States that have made reputa-
tons in that line. This will undoubted-
ly be a cause of surprise to the country
at large. CALIFORNIA; show will include
practically everything that is raised in
any part Of the world having a temper
ate climate and will also exhibit an ag-
gregation of specialties in soil products
that cannot elsewhere be duplicated In
the apple display southern and northern
counties Will alike be represented largely.
The California Redwood Lumber Asso-
citation has informed the commissioners
to st. Louis that all the companies repre-
scented in the redwood lumber combine
will cooperate to make up a great show
ing of redwood. Among the big things
reported at yesterdays meeting of the
St. Louis commissioners was a sea bass
weighing $50 pounds that was caught off
the coast of Southern California.