Show NOVEL PAMPAS PLUMES an extensive market being opened by a california lady when the california deleat delegation I 1 on to the tile republican national corieen convention tion at minneapolis Alin neapolis armed arrived in in ogden on its way east cast objects of great admiration were the handsome pampas plumes which were mounted on staffs andlar and carried in all parades by the tile delegates the raising of the plumes lias has become an ex extensive industry in california and by of the sales nearly annually is added to the commerce of the state it it is not generally known that the plumes grow to perfection in southern utah or dixie but such is is the case and thus for lack of raier railroad 0 ad communication what might inight prove a great source of revenue for this territory is is allowed to go by default regarding ing the heroic efforts in this direction of mrs strong the san francisco examiner says 1121 mrs R strong of los angeles county who is 19 widely known as tile promoter of the pampas plume industry il if not the originator of it is is at the palace the raising curing and coloring of pampas plumes is is peculiar to california and sirs strong seems to bo be on the highway to make a fortune out of it she is is building an octagon pampas plume palace at the exposition chicago it is is a great novelty she spoke sike of this and how slie she happened to engage in in the pampas plume industry yesterday it is is an interesting story mrs strom strong has a corner on the w worlds market an and sends fends plumes to london br berlin 1 in pans paris florence and rome basi besides 1 S 0 other t I 1 le places slie she say says s new york and other ot I 1 11 arelt great cities of the united states are just beginning to use pampas plumes they auevery are very popular kring during a political year patriots of the tile different parties marching with them instead of flambeaux and torches california is is the only country that produces the pampas plumes in in perfection and in in largo large numbers the product is about plumes a year ar just now there is a boom in the plume xe m market and instead of being worth 12 to 15 a thousand as wafa tile cao ease a month month or two ago they bring 2 cents apiece to the producer or 20 a thousand a n d mrs strong got into business in in a peculiar w way ay she had a fe few w v ears ago 0 a acro acre ranch called the it rancho del 1 puerto fuerte near IN lattier whittier on which had lust been planted acres of wain val walnuts nuts u ts the rows row s were w ere wide and what to plant between them she did not know most people cople planted corn but mrs strong sid did not favor it it pay and took lots of work suddenly she thought of the tile pampas nobody cultivated it but ehe she thought it would look pretty accordingly twenty eight acres were planted slie she lias has made money and a good deal of it out of the pampas plumes since then much of the money has been made by hitting on a plan to cure them if they were not cured the beautiful down of the palms would drop out to do this properly the plumes have to be handled lian ed thirteen times mrs strong lias has eight cribs each 35 by 15 feet in size in in winch which to storsand store and cure them last year plumes ii vent ent to toLon Lon donand one firm in in italy alone got in the latter place the plume is broken up and the tile feathery part used to work into fabrics elsewhere eliest hero the plumes are used largely as ornaments in bome cities i they are colored different state political committees and one hati onil committee have ordered plumes for usein in parades the republicans use three on oil a staff they being colored red white and blue the democrats are using them in their natural color which is ia almost pure white mrs strong is is much pleased with mith her ber success in in the novel business she bays say t there 1 ere is is just beginning to bo be a mark market etin in t the he united states for them and the indications aro are that the world wom will want far more of them than can bo be produced tins this is 13 the height of the harvesting beacon season and there is is a good crop only los Us angeles orange pan san bernardino and santa barbara counties produce the pampas plumis plumes |