SEMI- TROPIC C/1 L TFORXIA . 
165 
AS OTHERS SEE US. 
OPINION OF A VISITOR FROM THE EAST. 
At the close of the children’s perform¬ 
ances, Gen. J. H. Shields, of Florence, 
took the stand to introduce a visitor, and 
said: 
Ladies and gentlemen: Californians have 
plowed, planted, cultivated, hnivested, 
and told an incredulous outside world of 
the results. We have among us to-dily 
a stranger, from the far Bast, who was 
but is no longer incredulous, because lie what may not he expected when tins., 
came, he sees, and believes. He proposes j facilities are more Ilian doubled, when ti e 
to make amends for his incredulity upon j bars of high-priced transportation are let 
hearsay by telling you of his belief upon j down to ground-Hoor rates? And her. let 
the sight of the ‘horticultural display - i "s pause to give a tribute to that far-seeir.- 
which he lias examined in this pavilion. (engineer, John B Weller, wlm iuai-ted 
Said a 
imp. 
should tind 
Inct to emu- 
mil in which 
Ilia delicious 
State should be hccii and handled and The canning establishment, of Dimmick & 
lasted. At this moment we stand on the Sin flu Id at 
eve of great- developments, greater even, oilier* in ever) 
I believe, than tbosewhich wehavenlready lr.tr their sue 
seen. Capital is hastening to your bor¬ 
ders with new lines of railroad, and reliev¬ 
ing you, by competition, of .1. pendenc 
on tin- triumvirate who hove created tie 
line you know so iniich better than I that 
I need not characterize it If the impulse 
given to this country by one line ha- re¬ 
sulted in such wondrous development 
1 nmv have the pleasure of introducing 
Air. Horace J. Smith, of Philadelphia. 
Mr. Smith has traveled much in Europe 
and America, was one of the managers of 
the Centennial Exposition, visile.) Califor¬ 
nia in 1877, staying six months; returned 
in 1879 for a visit of eighteen months. 
He has a tine residence at George’s Hill, 
Philadelphia, from which only the fine 
climate of Southern California entices him 
to absent himself. 
On taking the platform Air. Smith said: 
Jr, seems proper that, some one from a 
distance, who has no investments here, 
should give expression to his surprise at 
such an exhibition as this now before us. 
When Moses led the children of Israel up 
out of Egypt and through the wild. mess, 
lie was only permitted to take n view of 
t he promised land and die. Those of Us 
who have crossed the alkali desert, and 
looked down on the golden plains and been 
still more favored than Moses, to enter in 
like Joshua to see the fruition, can truly 
say this is a goodly land and wondrous in 
its possibilities. 
It was my good foil unc to visit this 
const four years ago, fresh from centennial 
labors, when, through the courtesy of lead¬ 
ing gentlemen, I liad an intelligent ex¬ 
planation of the hopes, then entmtained. 
of making this a great fruit and grain pro¬ 
ducing country. There was then enough 
accomplished to justify the Calebs who 
had come to spy out the laud in going 
forward, though il was required that 
works should go hand in hand with faith 
Coming again, the egg that was then 
hardly laid, wo ecu now hatched— the 
bud then sot has now blossomed and 
fruited. I wish that the hurlicullui'inls of 
the East, who swelter and freeze alter 
•lately, eoul.l but sec- w hut. yon have neenm 
pHalicd under more genial ski.-s and move 
favorable climatic conditions. If. however, 
the mountain will not, come to Mahomet, 
lei. mo advise you to send Mahomet to tin; 
mountain; or, in ol Imr words, to send to 
our principal citing such a collection of 
yo.UV fruitand other productions ns will 
iimpl) testify to the value of your Iniuls. I the honey, iiujpid mid •!> iicnle; uln 
lucre lu.8 been so much gushing Willing! walnuts,' peaches, blackberries, g 
in I lie papers about California— a gushing ' ' . ... 
that, was truly juslilied by facts, hut wn, 
like tally, in that it cloyed on the appetite 
—that now it is required that the realized 
upon including the grand harbor of San 
Diego within the limits of the Union when Tins region at v 
the hues were run and the treaty iiisuli- 
whieli redeemed this favored country finrn 
1,1m Alesirans. Imagine how we nil should 
feel at this moment if this safe harbor and 
future metropolis was ten miles within tin* 
boundaries of a foreign country instead of 
ten miles within our ow n territory. 
And windier tribute should be paid to 
the steadfast men who have fought a win¬ 
ning battle undei adverse circumstances, 
and have compelled capitalists to see the 
merits of the harbor of the southern const. 
And we must accord to New England the 
credit nf being tin brains of America. ju*t 
as France is the brains of the world, and 
though we are warned not to put our trust 
in princes, yet if there D utiy both to be 
put in human nature, surely we nmv trust 
in the solid men of Boston, But Kiain-i-. 
too, is hastening to open up A new world 
to you; and a* Alims, de Lessl'ps Inis bought 
the Panama Bailroud, and Lieutenant 
Meuoenl has d.-monstiulrd the practica¬ 
bility of a NicAbigunn oniin1 1 a trans-isth¬ 
mian canal in the near future is assured 
If the projectors nf these lines could but 
aee this exhibition, surely their confidence 
in t.heir-invest nientshere would lie strength 
cried. Von could point them to the anom¬ 
alous fact of apples nu.l pears as large and 
luscious and U8 fair a* any, grown on uti- . iic-'i 
irrigated laud, from npph pips that were 'air 
but blossoms four years ago; to humus \V. N. Ted bud of G -pel Swamp had 
grown alongside the apples, that are i»- . ot the fail' a Gloria Mumli apple, which 
smooth and juicy as the Mediterranean mertsunnl is* indies in circumference, 
ever shipped to us; to chestnuts lipemd on 
trees only six years old; to oranges, rich ttud 
luscious, from orchards I lint annually real¬ 
ize to their owneis SllH'O per acre; to straw 
bei ries ns large, prunes ns rich in flavor, 
pickled olives and olive oil superior to the 
iinpui Ied. But time would fail me to cata¬ 
logue the grapes, vo iding ten tons to the 
acre, the grape-vinca, 1(11 years old. now 
in fruit, nml raisins shipped now by tin 
car load; the flaxseed, plumper and 
weightier than grown else where; the pump 
kina, in weight approaching eight to tlu* toil; 
Mmonds, 
Carbarn, 
riant dit 
and the i 
Mr. Ellwooil Cooper makes 
(■live oil, find other competitors. 
If I bare but faintly alluded to the suc¬ 
cess demonstrated by this exhibit in liorti- 
''ultiirP, I enn still less do pint ice to your 
grain* —your iintirigntcd corn, and wheat, 
nml hurley. 
These, however, need no words of mine, 
for are I hey not seen ami known on the 
exchanges of the world, ami do you not 
now feed multitudes, who, but for you, 
Would be stinted ? 
One other notable exhibit, however, de¬ 
serves especial mention, and that is the 
oisplay of mineral on- Loro Arizona. 
in doors bifiOmuntdouslj 
rich that the 'binned mm In upon your 
bounteous harvest' ha- abend) advanced 
tho price of your barley amt hay twenty 
per cent, this season. Instead of having 
pricea depressed by long ti mi-qnirt utiau, 
and the losses incident thereto, you have 
an intcr-State comim-n e growing as fust, 
i I most, ns your capacity to supply it.. 
These ores now here demonstrate how 
easily the debt of the nation can be paid 
when these coil'crs "f nature arc unlocked 
by the pick and the crowbar Well has 
California chosen for Imr gr> at Real the 
unit to ** Eureka,” for hen indeed ia the 
El Dorado, the desired home for Min race, 
when* climate, soil, and other natural con¬ 
ditions are most propitious to health, 
wealth, and longevity. 
DOTS. 
May berg Brother*' superb exhibitiou of 
glass and silver plate. 
W. n. Bowman's Duarte corn in ears, 
13 inches in length ami 9‘, inches in 
eimimfprenco. 
No department of agriculture wn* better 
icprenmitud at the fair than small fruits— 
the babies. 
Seven fii-t I iuehc6 was tlm circumfer- 
of a Westminster pumpkin at the 
Its weight was 201 pouuds. 
Los Nietos carried oil’ tlm blue ribbon 
fur largest single el Outer of grapes. 
Weight m\ pounds. IMsa of l'eru variety. 
.1 Sullivan of Santo Barbara exhibited 
a pear of the Vicar of Wakiflehl variety, 
ti inches m length and II mains in eqtiu- 
tonul circumference. 
uavas, 
peanuts, melons, and apricots. II i« also 
plmisilig to .see the diversification of indit*- 
t.iiuB, and the niimuluctinies spiingiug up 
in your midst, for it is very ceituin that no 
[ill* 
Niolii* hIi 
art I'd a 
niaiiiiimth Pippin 
15 iliel 
ii», a yell 
im Bell 
flower, 
IM ii 
nclios. 
ami a 
white 1 
•cllfioWi 
■r, lOj 
inch 
t j 8 in 
■•ircitiuft Icon. 
And 
Mieir 
quality on 
bring 1 
tested will 
i found 
to tie . 
A the 
best. 
Wot 
nihead A 
Gay i 
\ labile 
d the 
■ two 
largest 
peals in 
the pi: 
mlion. 
The 
■ mea- 
SUl'eim 
id of the 
hi fire* ( 
is civet 
i elsev 
v here. 
1 lie se 
111 iut 
'I'onil mi. 
lies in or 
i'iiied 7 inches 
cnmfeivuce of 
i iu k 
the h 
ugth, 
irgest 
* .. • in i "in |iiiur*( *"i iv •" • * • x i ■ * mi " i | i --( . 
products of tin* souMiern porlmn of the j great State can lean alone’ on figiii nltiin . '"inforcm 
part, nod 17 niche 
in 
■ngi 
tuiliuul air- 
