The San Francisco call., 1910-12-05
VISALIA' A'SGATESTO
open FOR THRONGS
Great Orange Show and Carni-
val Will Begin at Noon
Today
[Spe.i1l Dispatch % The Call

[Spe-i1i Dispatch % The Call
vISALIA, Dec 4.-When CaHfornia's
mines with their gold became a com
monplace of commerce instead of
wonder for romance, the state had to
turn to other forms of golden hued
wealth, and seems instinctively TO
have chosen the orange as the symbol
and fact of agricultural prosperity
This week this gold that grows on
dark green trees is to be exploited in
the Tulare district. .'the home of the
early orange ge''-Visalia opens it's orange
fair tomorrow at noon, the fifth an
nual fair held in the Tulare orange dis
trict
Visalia. as the county seat of Tulare
and of this rich trans Tehachapi citrus
belt. is joined in the fair which opens
here by all the orange growing dis
tricts in the county, by Porterville.
Lindsay. Strathmore. Exeter, Lemon
Cove, Naranga. Orosia Dinuba. Three
Rivers and the fertile adjacent dis
tricts. There are 10000 acres planted
in oranges in Tulare county, 1000 of
which are bearing and producing crops.
This season the shipment will approx
mate 1000 carloads, and the bearing
acreage is rapidly increasing in extent.
One hundred and twenty thousand
acres of orange land are available in
the citrus belt of Tulare, a citrus belt
at the foot of the Sierras.
The Visalia orange show. which
opens tomorrow. will last until Satur-
day and every day will be of interest.
There Will be the continuous exhibition
OF Tulare county oranges, lemons,
olives. the great butter exhibits, all the
fruit of the catalogue, and then on
special day will be special features. for
instance Wednesday is to be baby show
pnrforxrflIo &c iv,or in, a
civic body Friday. and the San Fran
cisco excursions will come Saturday
morning.
Tonights hundreds are working, Civ
ing the finishing touches to the luscious
exhibits in the new orange pavilion
The spacious haIl is aromatic with the
spicy odor of the rich orange, the lemon
and grapefruit. Six carloads of or
anges will be arranged in the pavilion.
and the oranges will be flanked by lem
ons, grapefruit. olives and all the other
rich Iuxuries which are raised in Tu-
lare county.
There is something about Visalia and
its district that gives a golden hue to
all that is produced here. Butter is
staple of the district. There is paid
out for butter fat in the county $780,,
600 a month, and every evening a spe-
cial carload of butter is sent to Los
Angeles. 'the butter special" and
while the butter is not quite so golden
as the oranges. 1t is rich and sweet and
prof1table'to the producer.
The people of Visalia have a double
reason to be proud this week, for not
only are they giving the orange show,
which has the merit of being the first
this season in the state and which the
Tulare people say is the largest ever
held, but the census bureau has filled
the Tulare county Christmas stocking
crease in population, and that makes
the Visalia heart glad.
Few counties in the state of Califor-
MIA make a better showing by the
census returns than TuIare county
The growth of Tulare in the last dec
ade has amounted to practically 90
per cent, gain of 1865, the figures
fthe county being 1875 in 1900 and
S5,440 in 1910. In 1890 the population
of Tulare county was PASTA. and then
the county comprised the territory now
in the county of Kings. Kings county
alone made a gain of 64 per cent in
the last decade. Each county has made
greater percentage of gain than the
state.
Looking through the pavilion to-
night, with all the exhibits not yet
placed 1T would seem as if Tulare
county had almost as many varieties
of products as it has people. Seldom
were so many good things. of all sorts
gathered under a single roof at a local
fair The exhibits include everything
it would seem, that grows, from acorns
to sequoias.
There is to be an interesting collec-
ton of Indian baskets, contained in
the booth to be presided over by Mrs
Susman Mitchell. Among the number
of baskets, beside the fine collection
owned by Mrs. Mitchell. some of which
are more than 100 years old, will be
several owned by Mrs Ida Agnew, at
least one of which is of similar age.
A feature of this exhibit will be
display of baskets presented to Mrs
Mckinley, wife of the late President
Mckinley. These baskets were pre-
sented to the president during his stay
in Sau Francisco. Mrs. Downing nursed
the president on his death bed and the
baskets were given to her by the widow
in gratitude for her faithful service.
A splendid San Francisco band has
been engaged to give concerts daily
during the fair. Visalia is preparing
to entertain 81, 200 strangers during the
all of its guests.
The officers of the citrus fair are:
President, J. johnson; vice president,
A. Lewis; secretary and general man
ager, c. F. Balsam; treasurer. S.
Mitchell.
Behind these enterprising men are
the merchants, growers and business
men of Visalia and all of the citrus
men of the county
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