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Show The Fifth National Orange Show California's Beautiful Midwinter Festival of Wealth, Romance and Beauty The Fifth National Orango Show, California's most beautiful annual mid winter event, will bo hold at San Bernardino, February 17 to 21. There, amid tho scones of California's Califor-nia's romanco, beauty and wealth, will bo portrayed thoso things that mnko tho easterner long for tho shores ot tho PaclfU. Thero Is romance In tho story of tho orango, as there Is wealth end beauty. It will bo told, for us tho people of tho century old, monk founded city of St. Bernardino de Slna plan It they will minglo with (ho millions and millions of oranges the fruit men of tho stato will ussomUle tho story that history has told alnco the footprints of tho padres niafked tho soil of tholr mission gardens, whero flrBt In California was planted tho orango. Tho pageanC of the ornngo will re-vivo re-vivo tho romanco of tho Indians, tho Franciscans, tho Spaniards, and the Forty-Nluors, oil In tho search for gold, and finally tell ot tho finding of the real gold tho golden orange. The dream of tho stranuo and romantic ro-mantic past will melt Into tho story of tho moro mighty today. Within tlio garden walls of tho exposition ex-position will bo shown this rcul told plucked from trees that sprang from tho very soil whero once wore blazed blaz-ed tho trails marked by tho rulers that camo and passed nnd saw not tho truo wealth of tho lana v.-h'ch thoy conquered. Thoro wilt bo 5,000,000 ornngos and lemons, gathered from tho choicest orchards up nnd down tho great state of California, in- tho National Orango Show. Artists will mold thoso oranges at.d lemons Into tho gorgeous and flagrant flag-rant array of beautiful things. It will bo tho living story of tho orange, staged In blossoming enrd-ens. enrd-ens. Tho beautiful things of tho grent garden of California will be assembled whero thoy tan bo teen with nlmost ono sweep of vision. Each year tho National Orango Show has becomo moro grand In tho exploitation of tho outdoors of California, Cali-fornia, and each year greater thousands thous-ands have viewed In wonder tho radiant sight of tho millions of tho choicest of citrus fruits. Every region In California will this' year marshal Its fruits to compete for tho world's honors. Each city that Is famed for its orchards or-chards will liavo some special do-blgn, do-blgn, built from oranges and lomons, to typify tho beauties ot thp.t city. Tho work of the artists will bo sot in a grovo ot real orango trees, grown for tho purpose nnd surrounded by gardens of beautiful flowers. Thrown nbout It will bo a wall of ornngos nnd lemons whero tier after tier of tho goldon fruit will bo arranged ar-ranged with gorgeous deco'atlons from tbo gardcnB, floMs and forosts. Horo will bo placed tho fruit that will compote for tho honors of tho world . Tho National Orango Show Is the annual demonstration ot tho tltrus fruit men of tho stato of their riches. rich-es. Fruits from San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Rtversldo, Orango, San Dlogo, Ventura, Santa Barbaro, Tu-laro, Tu-laro, Kern, Fresno nnd Butto counties coun-ties will bo In tho exposition. Thoro will bo many thousands of peoplo of tho east at tho National Orango Show this year and to dem-onstruto dem-onstruto to them every phase of tho great Industry, tho fruit men will ro-produco ro-produco In mlnlaturo, comp'cto Irrigating Ir-rigating systems, packing Iioubcs, orchards, or-chards, In addition to tho display of tho millions of fruits. Two hundred thousand peoplo, It Is estimated, will see the oxpoE- this year for thoso oarly visitors to California during tho exposition year w 111 not havo seen nature's real beau-tlos beau-tlos of tho wost unless thoy visit .tho National Orango Show, This year Is tho fortloth anniversary annivers-ary of tho birth of tho Washington naval orange, ovor twenty-five hundred hun-dred million specimens of which will bo shipped to tho markets ot tho eaut this year In additions to tho hunureds of mil iono of lemons nnd other varieties vari-eties of oranges. Tho birthday of tho naval orango will bo properly observed In connection connec-tion with tho Orango 8how. Tho pageant of tho orango will bo an elaborate feature of the exposition and will bo in progress throughout tho Ornngo Show. About 300 peoplo will tako part. In song, danco, and verse, with elaborate elab-orate settings, tho story of tho orango will bo told, nnd back In tho ages to tho tlmo when tho mystic Arrow head was emblazoned on tho mountain moun-tain side nbovo tho city of San Bernardino Ber-nardino will tho pageant havo Us birth. For a year tho p'an and study and training for this gorgeous spec-toclo spec-toclo has boon under way, handled by noted artists and historians. The musl and verso has been written especially es-pecially for tho pageant, nnd It will portruy In the early stages, all of California's wealth of romanco, particularly par-ticularly that part and It Is a largo part that contored nbour San Bernardino Ber-nardino and tho wonderful valley that strotches nbout tho ancient city. California historians aro aiding and taking doep Interest In this pageant, which will bo tho first that will bo perfect in history and symmetry as well. Tho fortieth anniversary of the naval o.ange naturally recalls the entire history of the orange. Tho orango had Its birth In India, unknown ngca ago. It found Us way Into Arabia and Syria, and in the oloventh century was growing In Sicily, Italy and Spain, and in tho sixteenth century crossed tho Atlantic Atlan-tic to America, during th.o conquest by the Spaniards. California first baw tho orange in 1769 when tho Francibtans started north out ot Lower California. In 1792 tho orango was growing in tbo gardens ot California Cali-fornia missions. In tho next seventy seven-ty years about 25,000 citrus trull trees were growing In the state, but tho Washington navel, the variety that started tho commerce of the orango or-ango was yet to be born. In 1873 L. C. Tlbbets ot niver-Bldo niver-Bldo plantod two trees, which :asno to tho government from Brazil, and two years later tho Washington navel nav-el was recognized, and Alio planting ot this tree, with other varieties, rapidly became extenslvo until now California Is Belling In tbo eastern markets nbout 45,000 enr loads of citrus fruit every year. San Bernardino, the home ot the National Orango, and tho central point ot California's richest inland valley, has a population of 18,000 people peo-ple and thoro aro 10,000 additional peoplo within tho suburbs of a radius of live mllos. Tho San Bernardino Valloy has a population of about 50, 000 peoplo. , Tho city Is on tho main line of tho Salt Lnko railroad, and three other oth-er railroads. It has unexcelled tho transportation facilities. San Bernardino is ono of the ancient an-cient towns established under the Spanish regime In 1810 Padro Dm mctz established tho settlement ho named In honor of Saint Bernardino a mile nbovo tho sea, that glistens a century ago, the elty has becomo tho commercial center of tho greatest great-est citrus fruit district In the world. In tho county ot San Bernardino or that particular part souh of tho .mountain range 15,000 card of or nnges will bo produced this year, ono third of tho crop ot California, I Tho great orchard, on the trees et which nro now mo!lowlng the goldon fruit, surrounds San Bornardlno on ovory sldo, and stretch away for unbroken un-broken miles. Thero aro 40,000 acron of citrus fruit lands In San Bernardino Bernar-dino county. San Bornardlno county Is a Brent empire in Itsolf. It has 20,000 equoro mllos, split in twain by a toworinij mountain range. The county grows every wostern fruit and produces every ev-ery known mineral nnd chemical. In tho decades to como tho county will be tho homo of millions. That great mountain rango lcoks down on the orango show city of Son Bernardino nnd Hs valloy. The rango rears its peaks thousands of feot Into the heavens Into tho lundi of perpetual snows. Winding thru tho backbone of tho mountain IB a now highway. For ninety-two miles tho road leads, beginning nnd end-' ing in tho city. of San Bernardino, nnd Its olevatlon Is from 1000 to 7000 feet. Over two thirds of it is their wants and sympathizes with out Into the west. A bond issuo of $1,750,000 has been voted by the peoplo of tho county to construct a chain of perfect boulo-vards. boulo-vards. Tho National Orango Show visitors will find themselves In a region of beauty, grandeur and riches. J. A. Guturlo, in The Arrowhead. |