Show THE MID FAIE what it is for and what it will accomplish if it be asked as it doubtless will what is tile the midwinter mid winter fair for and what will it accomplish the answer must lie lc tw twofold orold P first arst it is ia to amuse instruct and interest tho the people of california and of the pacific const and second it is to advert advertise ize Calif california orIlia we ve have invited eastern and foreign exhibitors to come boino liere here and bri ig 0 with them their choicest and rarest wares ware and they have responded in great numbers nuin nun liers bers and with alacrity this part of tile show is fur for ourselves our selve next yve we have asked every district arid and every county in the state to sent send to the il id winter fair samples of every product agricultural 0 horti cultural cult uril and mineral iia natural tural and manufactured and this is for the in arid and pleasure of our visitors and for the ultimate benefit of california we asi 1 1 crt in all sincerity never in the world has there licen beell such tell an all exhibit of the fruits of the soil as ij to be een fit at the lie midwinter Midi vinter cair taking into account beauty variety and utility california t is just about as large territorially as the republic of france and posses poses a aleater variety of soil and climate than that country and something or of everything that grows or is produced in that area may be seen at tile the midwinter fair and seen in many instances half a dozen times over ou tile the auperin opening i day for example there were oranges enough on exhibition almost to freight an atlantic liner finer arid and they were only one phase of tile marvellous marcellous marv ellous variety of exhibits it would not 10 lo do to tell tire whole truth it at ibis time lest the writer be rele relegated abed to the ranks of the familiar california liars but all we lice need asay say is como come and see sec for yourselves in ili a state like california N necessarily more or les acs le s sectional rivalry and this lias has arved served a rood good purpose for the midwinter fair there have been erected two handsome buildings one by northern and central california and the other by southern california the exhibits I 1 in these buildings s are dio distinct from those in the main main A agricultural ri and horticultural building it rj but no io admission is charged to either cither building C each has its peculiar and special product but they meet on common ground as to many things and that is where the greatest interest is excited it is a merry and good humored war but it is it in real earnest doth both sections of the state want settlers not mere lab laborers but homemakers home makers and have put forth their best efforts to show bov viii visitors lors that it il will be to their interest to pitch their tents among us u arid and to let their children b grow grow up with the count country rv california had every conceivable reason to be satisfied with the initial day of the exposition and believes that the triumph of that lay day will be repeated repealed again and again P as ion long as the alid midwinter vinter fair continues which will ivill be in ill all probability until the fourth of july the city is in readiness to receive guests from every part of the world and so go to receive them as to allow her reputation for hosi hospitality vitality to sauer no diminution whenever the february snow now gets too deep or the march winds too loo biting a few lays days of railroad travel will ivill bring a one to the land of sun sunshine fruit and and right liere here in san francisco francico at the midwinter tei fair the visitor can pee the whole great gea t st stati fa of Cali fomia in microcosm m 1 cro cosm wo we can offer oner no other or greater inducements inducement nor can we me believe it necessary so to do H ccuin |