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RESOURCES OF SACRAMENTO COUNTY,
CAUIFORINIA.
COMPILED BY
The Sacramento Chamber of Commerce.
directors:
WM. SCHAW, President.
C. F. PRENTISS, . . . Vice-President.
C. F. DILLMAN, Treasurer.
M. R. BEARD Secretary.
L. F. BREUNER GEO. H. CLARK
M. J. CURTIS P. C. DRESCHER
H. H. GRAU AC. HINKSON
GEO. M. MOTT A. E. MILLER
H. J. SMALL H. I. SEYMOUR
P. J. SHIELDS L. TOZER
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RESOURCES OF SACRAMENTO COUNTY,
CAUIPORINIA.
Compiled by the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, 1901.
It is not the present purpose to present an historical article,
but rather to call attention to the important position occupied
by this favored section, rich in resources and unlimited in its
opportunities of commercial progress and general advance-
ment.
Sacramento County contains about 620,000 acres, all of it
occupied; that is to say, there is no vacant or "government"
land within its borders. Land, however, is obtainable at a
moderate valuation, this section having never experienced
what is generally known as a "boom."
The largest watercourse in the State — the Sacramento
River — forms the western boundary, traversing the entire
length of the county from north to south, while the American
River crosses the upper portion of the county from east to
west, with additional watersheds centering in the Cosumnes
and Mokelumne Rivers.
Fruit Culture. — Fruit culture has become one of the leading
and most profitable industries in the State of California. This
being conceded, markets and facility of transportation become
most important factors, and herein again Sacramento County
excels.
Taking the center of Sacramento County as an initial point
and drawing about it a circle having a radius of fifty miles,
within this circle will be found the region producing the
earliest vegetables, berries, and fruits within the State, as
well as the area from which is shipped to the Eastern States
and outside consumers, more than 75 per cent of the output
of green and deciduous fruits from the whole State, and over
go per ce7it of it must pass through this county on its way to
reach a final market.
From the accompanying map of the fifty-mile circle men-
tioned, it will be seen that it extends to and beyond Marys-
ville on the north, Colfax on the northeast, Placerville on the
east, Stockton on the south, CoUinsville on the Sacramento
River, Suisun on the southeast, and Vaca Valley on the west.
The increase in citrus fruit cannot fail to challenge notice.
Since we commenced to ship oranges from Central California
the record stands: 1893, carloads 4; 1896, carloads 81; 1897,
carloads 286; 1898, carloads 589; 1899, carloads 910, and last
year, 1800 carloads. Considering the first oranges to ripen
come from the north and go into home consumption largely,
this is an encouraging showing.
Productiveness. — Here and there throughout the State of
California, are "thermal belts" and "fruit sections," laying
claim to certain qualification, such as "apricot section," "the
home of the prune," or a "citrus belt," etc. Of Sacramento
County, it may be said, it combines all of these, and there is
neither fruit nor flower, vegetable nor grain produced else-
where that cannot be produced to perfection within this sec-
tion. Nor is there a month within the calendar failing to
produce, and in which are not gathered fruits and vegetables
for market.
Large land-holdings are not necessary for the support of a
family in competence. This can be done on a ten or twenty-
acre piece, if well selected and located. Several colonization
enterprises have been inaugurated within the county, with
a view to supplying small and choice subdivisions of land to
intended settlers, with all the accessories necessary to suc-
cess. The most extensive and successful of these are the
Orange Vale Colony and Fair Oaks Development Company,
situated in the most eligible part of the county for fruit rais-
ing. Over six thousand acres have been subdivided in these
two colonies, with the purpose of settling it with people who
would become tributary to, and add to the material prosperity
of, Sacramento. A splendid water system has been com-
pleted, the water from the American River being carried to
the land, in underground pipes, and there distributed to each
tract, so that water, under pressure, is available at every tract
for either domestic or irrigation purposes. Three-fourths of
the aforesaid tracts are now planted and successfully growing
in orchard, grove and vineyard, and here examples of the
best growth may be seen.
It is a fact worthy of note that, whereas we learn from
authentic reports from Eastern and Southern States, includ-
ing Florida, that during the winter of 1898-99 great loss of
fruit trees has been incurred by the severe frosts, no fruit
trees, deciduous or citrus, have been injured by frost in Sac-
ramento County.
Climate — The winter sanitarium of the world is supposedly
located in northern and western Italy, the Riviera and its
citrus and olive belt. By comparison, it will be found that
Sacramento County shows a warmer winter, spring and yearly
average, and about the same autumn and summer tempera-
ture as that of the great citrus belt of northern Italy, where
it is said "perpetual summer exists, skies are blue and the
sun ever shines." Comparison will show that while the clear
days in the year reach but 220, Sacramento County averages
238, being more clear days than any inhabited portion of the
northern hemisphere, excepting only Yuma, Arizona.
These statements are made from authentic information.
All of the tables following were prepared by James A. Bar-
wick, United States Weather Bureau Observer, and official
in charge, Sacramento. The facts above referred to are de-
duced from the following table:
Av'age
Winter
Temp.
Av'age Av'age
Spring Sum'er
Temp. Temp.
Av'age Av'age
Autm'n Yearly
Temp. Temp.
High 'st. Lowest
Temp. Temp
Clear
Days.
Florence 44.3
Pisa { 46.4
Genoa j 44.9
San Remo I 48.9
Mentone i 49.0
Nice 47.8
Cannes 49.5
Av'age in Italy ..
Av'age in Sacra-
mento Connty..
47-3
47.0
56.0
57-2
58.6
57-3
58.3
56.2
57.4
57-3
60.0
74.0
75-2
75-0
72.4
73-9
72.3
731
73-7
75-0
60.7
62.8
63.0
61.9
62.5
61.6
61.0
58.8
60.4
60.4
60.1
60.9
59-5
60.2
85
85
25
23
85
61.9 60.0 I 85 20
61.0 61.0 tiio *I9
218
214
229
220
238
tOccurred but once in fifty-five years.
♦Occurred but twice in fifty years — once in January, 1854, and once in January, i88S.
A favorable locality, one in which the extreme severities
of the weather do not recur too often. The cultivation of
peaches, oranges, grapes and other fruits whose plants require
five or ten years to mature may be profitable if killing weather
does not recur oftener than once in ten or twenty years.
The following table gives the average temperature for each
season of the year, along with the highest and lowest tem-
perature and average rainfall, for Sacramento, Folsom, Gait,
Florin, Orange Vale, Fair Oaks and Brighton The mean of
these seven places of observation gives the average mean
for the county:
Av'age
Winter
Temp
Av'age Av'age | Av'age Av'age „
Spring j Sum'er Fall Annual Ji^rr'
Temp, j Temp. Temp. | Temp. ^ P-
Min.
Temp.
Av'age
Precip.
Sacramento 48
Folsom 48
Gait 48
Florin 47
Fair Oaks | 46
Orange Vale | 46
Brighton 47
Average for the
County 47
60
60
62
58
58
58
60
72
78
76
74
76
76
75
62
61
63
57
60
60
62
60
62
62
59
60
60
61
no
107
108
108
107
107
109
60
75
61
61
19
20
19
20
20
20
20
^19
19.94
24.00
15-70
18.00
24-75
24-75
18.44
20.14
*Higliest and lowest temperature. The lowest, 19°, occurred but twice
in fifty years, and that was in January, 1854, and January, 1888. The
highest temperature indicated occurred but once in fifty-five years.
Note. — The elevations above the sea-level of the points mentioned are
as follows: Sacramento, 35 feet; Folsom, 1S2 feet; Gait, 49 feet; Florin,
58 feet; Orange Vale, 300 feet; Fair Oaks, 300 feet; Brighton, 53 feet.
The latitude and longitude of Sacramento City is: North latitude, 38°
35''; longitude west from Greenwich, 121° 30'.
As showing what preponderance of clear sunshiny days is
here enjoyed over the places named below, representing the
climate of eleven States situated on the same line of latitude,
as also the record of lowest temperatures, the following table,
compiled from oflBcial sources, has been prepared:
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Sacramento, Cal....
Washington, D. C.
New York, N. Y....
Columbus, O
Chicago, 111
St. Louis, Mo
Cincinnati, O
Philadelphia, Pa. .
Baltimore, Md
Memphis, Term....
Vicksburg. Miss....
Savannah, Ga
Louisville, Ky
Atlanta, Ga
48
74
35
78
32
69
32
72
28
68
34
74
36
73
33
75
36
78
43
79
50
83
53
80
37
78
46
74
19
- 5
- 6
-20
-21
-22
-17
- 6
- 7
- 9
- I
8
-14
39
21
22
13
21
25
18
20
22
25
24
32
19
26
28
38
36
32
36
33
31
36
39
29
31
28
31
32
23
31
32
45
33
32
41
34
29
238
105
104
97
108
74, 122
51 99
36 15
35 , 16
30 10,
40 I 13.
32 I 19
107
108
129
126
121
106
122
68
126
126
150
136
115
141
118
133
122
107
120
121
141
A dash, thus ( — ), before a figure indicates temperature below zero.
Educational. — That Sacramento is mindful of the value of
the education of the masses, and that she has done and is
doing her full duty in this respect, is evidenced by the follow-
ing figures taken from the records of the County Superin-
tendent of Schools:
Number of public school houses in city and county 89
Number of teachers employed 220
Number of census children (between 5 and 17) 8,683
Total current expenses for the year 1900 1186,627.54
Sacramento City. — Sacramento City is the county seat, and
also the capital of the State. It has a population of 30,000,
is compactly built, covering an area of about 4 square miles,
with broad streets ot an average width of 80 feet, and wholly
lighted by electricity. It is a city of homes and flowers, the
residence portion being embowered in choice foliage and the
streets well shaded. It is one of the chief cities of the State,
being a railroad center, with unequaled transportation facil-
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ities. Outside of San Francisco, it is the chief manufacturing
city of the State. Indeed, upon the authority of the bulletin
of the Census Bureau, giving the statistics of 165 manufact-
uring cities, but three cities upon the entire Pacific Coast
exceed it in the value of their products. The returns men-
tioned make the following showing for Sacramento:
Establishments 302
Investments 15,654,782
Employes 4,510
Wages 12,967,954
Materials l9,o33,3 17
Products 110,424,582
Its trade extends all through the central, northern and
mining sections and into the adjoining States and Territories,
aggregating annually over $60,000,000. It has a compre-
hensive street-car system, operated entirely by electricity.
It has a number of daily and weekly newspapers of a high
type; also public schools of excellent standing, private schools
and seminaries, an art school and school of design in connec-
tion with the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, containing a collec-
tion of paintings valued at more than a half million dollars.
It contains the State Capitol building, erected at a cost of
nearly $3,000,000, the State Agricultural Exhibition building
and the State Printing Office, all situated in a park of unpar-
alleled beauty and covering about 30 acres of ground under
the highest state of cultivation, and planted to grass, trees
and flowers. The great railway shops of the Southern Pacific
Company, covering 20 acres of ground, at times employing
over 3,000 skilled workmen, complete in all particulars and
capable of turning out any branch of the work from the rails
up to the finest finished coach, are likewise located here.
Five banking institutions of large resources, building and
loan associations, and metropolitan conveniences for the trans-
action of financial affairs, are among the facilities aflforded.
The social advantages of churches, educational and fraternal
organizations are numerous. The Odd F'ellows, Masons,
Foresters and Knights of Pythias have spacious, attractive
halls. A Government building, containing accommodations
for the Post Oftice department. United States Land Offices
(Register and Receiver), Internal Revenue department,
United States Weather Bureau, etc. This handsome edifice,
but recently completed, is erected in the heart of the city,
standing in an area i6o feet square, built of red sandstone,
and cost $300,000.
Water Poivcr. — On the American River, 20 miles northeast
from the City of Sacramento, is built a great dam, which was
the first attempt to introduce the use of water power upon a
large scale within the State. This dam is constructed entirely
of granite blocks, having a width at the top of 24 feet, at the
bottom 87 feet, a height of 89 feet, and 650 feet long; stability,
7,979 tons. The power-house, to utilize this great force of
nature, has six immense turbine wheels. This power is
transmitted to the City of Sacramento as a propelling power
for its street-car system, and has been substituted lor steam-
power in mills and factories wherever available and desirable.
The future developments from this enterprise are promising
and the people are alive to its value.
Another source of power is the immense storage system of
the South Yuba Water Co., in whose thirty-one reservoirs on
the Divide and in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, two
billion cubic feet of water are stored during the rainy season.
Certain drops in altitude on the canals, in the towns of
Auburn and Newcastle, are utilized to develop power, by
pressure pipe lines and tangenital wheels. There is avail-
able at the present time with these two companies, 11,500
horse-power. The possibilities of increase on this system are
indefinite.
The rates for electric current are probably lower, at the
present time, in Sacramento than anywhere else in the world.
California, taken as a whole, is no doubt the richest in its
resources of any country in the world. It contains every-
thing necessary for the establishment and maintenance of an
empire.
Within its borders are found all the resources that con-
tribute to the wealth and prosperity of other countries. It
has gold, silver and copper mines that produce many millions
annually; oil wells, vast forests of the finest timber known,
and soil equal to that of any other country in fertility. Within
its territory, bordering on the Pacific Coast about 800 miles,
and extending into the interior from 140 to 200 miles, in area
ORANGE TRBE AND FRUIT.
PHOTOGRAPHED NOV. 21, 1 896, J. G. KELLOGG'S GROVE, ORANGE VALE.
This ten-acre grove (now ten years old) is yielding from ten to fifteen
per cent interest on a valuation of 515,000. This has proved to be the
best orange and lemon section in the United States. Since the planting
of this and other groves in this district the trees have not been affected
by frost, while in Florida, once the favorite citrus growing belt, orange
trees have been killed by cold on several occasions. In this portion of
Sacramento County more than 1,000 acres have been planted to oranges
and lemons, and the acreage for this purpose is being increased yearly.
about 160,000 square miles, there is a climate and soil so
varied in localities that it possesses the ability to grow all
kinds and varieties of agricultural and horticultural products,
including all cereals, deciduous and citrus fruits known to
the commercial world.
In regard to cereal products the positive guarantee against
damage from rain during the months of June. July and August
makes California the best grain growing State in the Union,
from an economic standpoint, for the reason that it permits
the employment of methods in har\-esting. threshing and put-
ting the grain in sacks for market for a less amount than it
takes to do the same thing in other States where heavy
showers are liable to occur without warning at any time.
In California, the farmers can wait three or four weeks after
the grain is ripe in order to utilize machinery that cuts,
threshes and sacks the crop all at the same time, and at a
fraction of the cost it takes to accomplish the same thing in
climates which keep the grain moist and not in condition to
thresh immediately upon cutting, as is done through the use
of the "combined harvester and thresher."
As these facts become better known and understood, it is
reasonable to assume that prices for good grain land in Cali-
fornia will matenal'v advL^nce.
Bavana Flaxts.
Rainfall of Sacramento, Cal., from September 1st, 1849 to March 1st, 1901.
From Dr T. M. I-ogaii, Dr. F. W. Hatch, S. H. Gerrish ami Weather Bureau records.
Preparetl by James A. liarwick, Observer aud official iu charge U. S. Weather Bureau.
Offices, Sacrameuto, Cal.
Yr.
Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
Apr.
May
June
July
Aug.
Sept.
Oct.
Nov
Dec.
Season
of
1849
1850
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1.50
T
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4.50
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10.00
4.25
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1849-50
36.00
1851
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1. 14
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2.14
7.07
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4.71
1852
■58
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6.40
.19
•30
T
6.00
13.40
1 1851-52
17.98
1353
3.00
2.00
7.00
3.50
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1-54
11852-53
36.35
1854
3-25
8.50
3.25
1.50
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•31
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T
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1.15
11853-54
20.06
1855
2.67
3.46
4.20
4^32
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T
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2.00
; 1854-55
18.62
1856
4.92
.69
1.40
2.13
1.84
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T
.20
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2.40
1S55-56
13-76
1857
1.38
4.80
.68
T
T
•35
t'
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2.41
2.63
1 1856-57
ro.46
1858
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2.46
2.88
1. 21
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.10
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T
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3-01
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4.34
11857-58
14.99
1859
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391
1.64
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1.04
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648
1.83
1858-59
r6.04
i860
2.31
•93
5."
2.87
2.49
.02
"•63
.06
•91
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4.28
1859-60
22.06
1861
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2.92
3^32
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•59
.14
■55
T
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1862
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1.81
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T
2.33; jrS5r-62
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1863
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2.75
2.36
1.69
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1.82
r862-63
11.59
1864
1.08
.19
1.30
1.08
.74
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7.87
1863-64
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1865
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1.37
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2.43
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1864-65
22.59
1866
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2.02
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10
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1867
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1868
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2.31
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1869
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1870
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1871
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1.92
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1873
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4- 36
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T
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10.01
1872-73
14-19
1874
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1.86
3.05
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T
T
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2 26 3-80
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1873-74
22 92
1875
8.70
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T
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6.20
5.52
1874-75
17.70
1876
4.99
3.75
4.15
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.02
T
3 45
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1875-76
26.30
1877
2.77
1.04
.56
.19
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T
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1.07
1.43
1876-77
9.19
1878
9.26
8.04
3.09
1.07
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1877-78
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1879
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341
1878-79
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1880
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1.83
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1881
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5.06
1.37
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T
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T
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18S0-81
26.57
1882
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3.78
1.99
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T
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263
322
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16.51
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370
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2.85
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1882-83
18 II
1884
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4.46
S.14
4.32
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1883-84
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1885
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T
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1884-85
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1886
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1887
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1888
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4.63!
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11.56
1889
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.33
6.25
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1890
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4.06
3.00
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189 1
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1.78
2.04
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1892
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2.84
302
1.20
2.38
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1518
1893
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3.51
1. 08
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1892-93
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1894
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1896
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1895-96, 23.23
1897
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16
1.96 .61
1.641
r 896-97
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'4
Tablh Showing Destination and Number of Cars of Fruit
Shipped to Each Pi,ace in 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899 and 1900.
destination.
1895 1896 I 1897
1899
1900
Chicago
New York
Boston
Philadel pbia
Minneapolis
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Kansas City
Montreal
New Orleans
Denver
St. Louis
St. Paul
Omaha
C leveland
Pittsburg
Buffalo
M il waukee
England
Scotland
Germany
Mexico
Minor Points — Canada
Minor Points — United States.
Totals .
1473
862
279
82
124
37
15
91
44
75
148
78
109
176
29
26
15
42
863
4568
1007
1055
471
90
147
5
2
81
81
85
136
68
91
85
10
25
7
32
42
532
4052
1410
1456
543
202
180
16
20
86
59
121
165
37
40
15
52
58
586
5323
1203
1429
536
176
167
16
15
no
96
62
229
27
67
156
25
47
5
19
42
I
572
5007
1060
1694
710
339
247
67
89
165
128
126
269
115
125
194
83
137
34
60
117
4
2
I
52
1051
6869
1 163
1627
649
212
302
34
35
129
126
136
233
79
131
240
63
144
10
68
192
7
71
946
6597
Tabi,e Showing the Number of Cars of Each Variety Shipped
IN 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899 A.ND 1900,
varieties.
Pears
Peaches
Grapes
Plums and Prunes .
Apricots
Cherries
Apples
Quinces
Figs
Nectarines
Persimmons
Mixed
Cars not reported..
Totals
1895
1 187
1289
lOIO
465
162
180
105
13
5
152
4568
1624
976
712
407
172
88
53
8
2
I
4052
1897
1640
1316
1 100
742
177
239
61
24
3
10
2
9
5323
1898
1595
1 103
734
542
123
297
596
I
15
5007
1899
1684
2625
847
885
90
85
490
19
I
24
117
6869
1900
2115
1361
825
1 158
152
238
674
10
3
27
34
6597
15
Dates on which the first appearance of bloom on fruit trees
were observed. Furnished Observer Barwick by Mr. S. H.
Gerrish, Voluntary U. S. Weather Bureau Observer, Sacra-
mento, Cal.
1870. First blossoms observed on February 21.
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
During the past thirty-two years the earliest bloom ob-
served occurred on January 28, 1887, while the latest was on
February 29, 1880.
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26.
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16.
14.
21.
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20.
2.
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29.
21.
28.
19.
20.
10.
<(
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anuary
28.
^ebru
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II
ary
20.
3-
13-
17-
II
11
II
II
16.
16.
12.
13-
I.
16.
16.
14.
Some Facts not Generally Known in the East Con-
cerning Sacramento County.
It is the heart of California's early fruit belt.
It is the home of all citrus and deciduous fruits.
The orange ripens here five weeks earlier than in Southern
California.
Seventy-five per cent of the deciduous fruits of the State
are grown within a radius of 50 miles from Sacramento City.
It contains the noted Flame Tokay district.
It has the second largest vineyard in the world.
It has the largest thoroughbred breeding farm in the world"
It has the largest gold dredge in the world.
It is the only district shipping berries in full carloads.
It has the largest proportionate acreage of rich lands.
It is the leading hops district of the United States.
A failure of crops in this district has never been recorded.
It has no sunstrokes, snow or blizzards.
It has an average annual rain-fall of 20 inches.
The climate averages about the same temperature as that
of Los Angeles.
It is the ideal winter resort.
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