Year: 1859

NEVADA AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
During a recent visit to the Northern
District Fair at Marysville, while
looking at one table after another
which was gioaning under collections
Of large and luscious fruits, or heaped
with mammoth vegetables and speci-
mems of grain. the writer of this was
mortified by the reflection that to this
beautiful exhibit Of the productive
ness of California's s soil, the rich and
famous county of Nevada had not
contributed single article. For up
wards of twelve months, week after
week, we had labored to convince the
people of the valleys that the noun
taius were producing other than gold
crops. that they were doing much for
the lasting welfare and truest inter-
ests of the State, that they were
blooming with orchards, gardens and
lovely homes. All this we believed
and published much reason for the
faith that was in us. But here was
an agricultural festival in which our
county had not taken the least inter-
est, nor secured one corner where its
agricultural and horticultural value
could be represented. This was stu
pid. and the stupidity was repeated
at the State Fair, with few honora-
BILE exceptions. There were some
noble peaches there from Grass VAL
ley ,honr from the Nevada Mills 0hich
took the first premium. and few lbs.
of hops from our own town. The
mines even were not represented !;
yet Nevada county is pre-eminently
distinguished for its extensive placer
diggings, its rich quartz veins, the
originality and superiority of its min
ing processes. To her belongs the
credit of the hydraulic process and
bank blast, and of numerous minin 3
inventions which need not here be
particularized. We cannot think the
omission to have all her resources and
products fully represented at the
Fairs resulted from Indifference, but
rather believe it occurred for want OF
concerted action. Now it is vastly
to our advantage, in every point OF
view, that we should convince the
people Of California, and those who
are yet to arrive here, that Nevada
county, while second to no mining
county in the State, is much more
than mining county alone. BY diff
fusing knowledge of its admirable
soil, which already yields largely OF
fruits, vegetables and grains, we shall
attract to our midst share Of the inn
migration now going mostly else
where. The number of permanent
inhabitants will thus be more rapidly
increased. and that happy day has,
tened when we can all regard these
gentle hills. though high as HOME.


To accomplish this object, which
must be desideratum with all intel
ligent citizens, the most valuable as
sistant is association. Let us have
in Nevada county an Agricultural,
Horticultural, Mining and Mechani-
cal Society. Let it be organized as
soon as possible, so that all the essen
tials to a successful County Fair can
be attended to by next summer, and
nothing prevent a full exhibit by that
time of whatever we can do in the
way of fruit, grain, vegetable, metal
and machine producing. There
is material enough in the coun'
ty to make the best exhibition of the
mining interests ever witnessed in the
State, and as good as any of the ag,
ricultural interests while Thousand
miscellaneous objects could be gath
cred to increase the attractiveness o.
the occasion. This plan is very fea


sibIe and easy of accomplishment, ant
we shall hereafter urge it upon public
attention with more care. Meanwhile
we invite our cotemporaries in Ne


vada and Grass Valley to aid il
awakening attention to what we thinl
they will admit is an object worthy o


their attention. Do not let Nevad:


lag behind any more. A little ener


getic talk and action will enable us t


have at the county seatnext Septem


Der as successful a Fair as can be 60


up in the cow counties.-Hydrauli


Press.