The San Francisco call., 1904-02-20
cLovERDALE CITRUS FAIR.
VIZ z desire that Eastern readers make no
Nv that on the 18th of February. 1904, there wi
v oDened ot ClOverda1e in Northern Californi

in latitude 40 the twelfth annual citrus fair held in that
town The oranges and other citrus fruits exhibited
are grown that vicinity and fresh gathered from
in which they began to ripen last Novem-
bcr 1t should be known that in this State ripe oranges
remain on the trees for months The mansions the
fruit plantations of Sutter County in the latitude
Cloverdale. usually in the midst OF groves of
orange and lemon and is not unusual to see them
in May with the ripe fruit the trees that has been
yellow since November. The family go to the trees
every day for the fruit they
The exhibit at Coverdale shows the great abundance
and proves the excellence of the citrus fruits grown
there, and it stands witness to the climatic advan-
tages of Northern California wnterless land where
the oranges and lemons untouched by frost and
be shown in the midst of the winter months Mr.. Lea,
in his address opening the fair said "Cloverdale for
eleven years has stood sponsor for Northern California
She has by this long series of fairs proclaimed to the
world that her people have their lot in pleasant
place and that this is the home of the lemon the po-
melo the olive and the orange well as the grape
All this nearly latitude 40 That is the latitude of
Philadelphia; Columbus Ohio Springfield Illinois; In
dianapos and Eastern points that now suffering
temperature zero, and below, with storms OF sleet
and and all of the incidents OF hard and bleak
In Asia but little south OF Vladivosok and
a little north of Port Arthur, where the salt sea is
frozen 1t is north of Sicily the of citrus culture
in Italy and of Seville, where oranges grown in
Spain IS in fact, farther north than orange produc
ton anywhere the world outside of California Here
it still south of the citrus zone, for the great
orchards of Butte County in still higher latitude
Let our Eastern readers take the map and find Clover
dale California and its latitude and then read the ther
mometer at points the degree in their
country and picture to themselves what is certified by
this exhibit of citrus fruits While they tightly
housed against the bleak blasts of winter with the
streams frozen so that has be broken daily,
for their drink with their houses banked
to keep the frost destroying their winter stock of
potatoes and appes Cloverdale the fields and plains
and ncosng mountains green as in the Eastern
June the wild flowers in bloom, oranges are ripe
trees that already in bloom for the next crop, and
the people are entertaining visitors who to admire
the great exhibit of citrus fruits and olives garnished
with the foliage of the palm and bamboo They will
appreciate how latitude has do with the climate
of California
Upon further inquiry they will find that Sonoma
County where all this exhibit is produced, is also
banner county in the production of wheat, oats rye,
barley corn buckwheat hay live stock and all that the
Eastern agrcuuris is familiar with and addition to
these grows the fig pomegranate, grape, Japanese per-
simmon. and wide variety of orchard and field crops
This is the fact that is hard get into the heads
of Eastern people. They unable why
grow the staples which they produce i'll the soil
and under the same that produce the semi-tropcal
fruits and the date palm 1t would pay the railroads to
advertise excursion rates from the land to the
Coverdae fair year, for we can imagine no more
impressive lesson be taught by bringing East
people through the frost and snow and introducing
them to such an object lesson without taking them
of their latitude.
of this fair should be preserved in photo
graphs for distribution and exhibit in Eastern cities.
Each should attached map of the United States,
with Coverdales latitude projected to the Atlantic
Coast. 1t may that at this late day the
climatic about California have be propagated
by such means but is The facts remark
able of line with Eastern experience, that they
are difficult grasp. When they fully realized
are persuaded that Northern California will receive such
large and desirable accession of population will
carry the State away up the line at the next
1t should be known, too that Cloverdae is merely the
exponent of Northern California 1t is not small and
specially favored spot except in the good judgment and
enterprise of its people who make this exhibition Gil
maticay il is representative of conditions that
eastward the State to the Serras, embracing
capable of supporting millions of rural people, under
conditions that make work pleasure and life luxury