Year: 1859




ciai result that would accrue from a regular
ly organized County Fair. Since my article
was penned several communications have ap-
peared in print, written by citizens for the
good of the cause, still there might he some
exceptions taken to at least one of the COM
mnnications that have lately appeared. In
answer to my first article in the DEMOCRAT
by the correspondent of one of the Dailies, it
WAS stated that there was already an organi-
zation, with Kirkpatrick for President, and
Others holding the different offices for Coun.
ty Fair. and that all that was necessary was
for said officers to call meeting, and the
County Fair would move on. Now, sir, do
think if said officers have been in organiza-
tion since 1856, and have lacked the zeal.
have wanted the ambition, have had so much
business to attend to of another nature, that
they could not attend to the primary business
of this organization-if this is the case, for
one | want the County Fair placed in the
care of men that will attend to the business
for which they are elected l. for one, want
the business of County Fair attended to by
the mechanics of genius, the farmers of prac-
teal demonstration. l want to see the peo-
pie at large move in q matter so important.
know that Yuba county possesses, as l said
in my former communication, all the advan-
tages necessary for County Fair; know
that her Pavilion stands in Cortez Square as
| of;n ;ta& 70 fha Houa1nnroaut
of genius, and the handiworlS of cultivating
the soil of our beautiful valleys; know full
well that the limpid stream of the Feather
river on one side and the more turbid yet
constant waters of the gallant Yuba on the
eastern border gives full advantages for irri-
CATION of the soil of those valleys, to produce
the fruits and means of subsistence fully
equal the counties of the Southern portion of
our State, and to demonstrate to the world at
large to the people all over this entire State,
that our farmers our mechanics, our handy
working men and machihists, are not to be
surpassed. l do not write for self important
glory. do not deem it profitable in the
least to imagine for myself the castle of
glory to be erected in the future as an ever
lasting emolument fer myself and children
few months attention to business of this
interesting nature and it would even seem
the perfection of presumption for an isolated
inhabitant of the Pacific coast to endeavor to
enlighten with my weak talent and ability
the minds of those whose understandings,
whose capabilities, whose practical knowl-
edge surpasses that of my own and who are
far better Informed as to the interest and
topics under consideration of organizing a
County Fair. Yet from this same appearance
of presumption can only take refuge in the
great and grand demonstrative idea that the
field of thought is So broad the subject is SO
great and the result of an Annual Fair for
Yuba county added and connected with all
her original enterprises, will be so beneficial
ly appr' ciated and the brilliant rays of light
stretch SO far out upon the verge of human
thought and general interest that even the
pen would fail from doing Justice and the
mind become bewildered in pleasing rapture
am glad to know that already the thoughts
communicated in your columns heretofore
have created feeling and brought forth
in our business men calling by them for a
public demonstration in this matter by the
people at large at an early day 1t would
indeed be folly to pass by the advantages we
as county possess because we cannot have
the advantages of the State Fair. 1t would
indeed be folly to let the walls of our Pa
vilion crumblet to its own centre because We
lack the ambition to move to action, and sit
down quietly in our secluded chambers like
the Romans of old, to weep amid the ruins of
ancient splendor, and dream upon antcipa
ted ambition. Sir, the interest is inevitable
The community at large will realize lasting
oeneht-our children will as they grow up
under the influence of the Annual Fair profit
largely thereby,-the genius in some indi-
vidual, perhaps in our own city, now lying
dormant and inactive. will be developed suf-
hcient to surpass the modern inventions of
the age. | am glad that from the former
communication Of late the people are NOV.
ing | feel proud to think that we of the
North can attend to the North without the
dletation and rule of other portions of Cali
fornia


But, sir, l am opposed to District Fair,
at the 'ame time would favor to the full
extent, the assistance, the friendship and the
attention of our neighboring counties, and
freely ask their co operation, yet, sir. when
you make it anything but a County Fair,
your interest and expense might lie in Shasta,
and for some minor question of rule your
Committee of Dictation might have to be
visited in Sierra. Let Yuba county grow
with her own growth sustain her Fairs with
competent officers build the reputation of
those Fairs upon the principle of cash pre-
miums upon intentions of honor and right,
and gladly will the mechanic, the farmer, the
raiser of choice stock and the men of ambi-
tion in agricultural pursuits of other counties
co operate and lend us their assistance, and
the glory of our efforts will be acknowledged
with proud and consoling ambition in a tu-
ture day by the community at large, and the
masses will rejoice at our prosperity. ore.


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