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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. 

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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 


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1456 

543 

202 

180 

16 

20 

86 


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165 

37 
40 

15 
52 
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176 

167 

16 

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229 

27 

67 

156 

25 

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5 

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710 

339 

247 

67 
89 

165 
128 
126 
269 
115 
125 
194 

83 

137 

34 

60 

117 

4 

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212 

302 

34 

35 

129 

126 

136 

233 

79 

131 

240 

63 

144 

10 

68 

192 

7 


71 
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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 

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1316 

1 100 

742 

177 

239 
61 

24 
3 

10 
2 
9 


5323 


1898 


1595 
1 103 

734 
542 
123 
297 
596 


I 
15 


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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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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. 


l.IBRflRY   OF   CONGRESS 


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