Identifier	sc19384_back.tif
Title	Butte County Citrus Fair.
Original date	December 1887.
Donor/Source of loan	Sanborn, Clifford
Original item size	115x200mm.
Description	Photograph shows the Chico display at the Butte County Citrus Fair. Written on photograph, Oroville The County Seat of Butte County is situated on the bank of Rio de los Plumas, or Feather River, where it debouches from the low foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, 500 miles from Los Angeles, and is in the heart of the great Semi-tropical Fruit Belt of Northern California. With a climate slightly warmer, Summer and Winter, than that of Los Angeles, and free from fog or moist ocean breezes, oranges ripen at Oroville and vicinity from four to six weeks earlier than at any point in Southern California. The accompanying photographs are views of different parts of the Citrus Fair held at Oroville from December 20th to December 27th, 1887. The exhibit being composed of Citrus Fruit grown in Butte County alone. Since the Fair over 100,000 orange trees have been planted in Butte County. Sam Titus, Real Estate Agent, Oroville, Butte County, Cal.
Subject-Location	Butte County (Calif.) Oroville (Calif.)
Subject-Topic	Agricultural exhibitions
Location in Collection	under review
Digital Collection	Northeastern California Historic Photograph Collection
Digital Repository	Meriam Library Special Collections Department, California State University, Chico.
Digital file format	jp2
Digital date	3/22/2000
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