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Show ww perhaps twelve feet in height. "When it began to bear fruit, to ,th astonishment of everybody who taated the fruit, the" oranges were delicious past description, and that tree waa robbed of cuttings cut-tings every y until the rage for naval oranges began. The tree grew splendidly and every year bore a wonderful crop of oranges, though sometimes some-times around ita bane the warm snow would fall fifteen fif-teen inchea deep. It may be growing and bearing still. The oranges ripen there a month earlier than at Los Angeles, and well they may, for the man who died in Yuma and whose soul ctme back for a blanket would, had he died in Oroville, have come back for two blankets. THE OROVILLE ORANGE 8ELT. The San Francisco Chronicle haa an article on the central citrus belt of California, referring to the region around Oroville. and intimating thst new interest has been awakened over the possibilities of rsising the semi-tropical fruits there. But those possibilities hsve been known for a long time. There ' was there soree fifty yesrs ago a suspension brides ov.r the sonth fork of tbe Feather river at Bidwell's Bar. Below th abutments of the bridge on the hank of the river there was a triangle of land " 1 lis are perhaps twenty-five feet long on esch side . "f ht.- fnarigle. In the center of that some one about li.V) hail planted aa orange aeed. In 1860 the tree 4 - |