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Title: Fresno County, Cal
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Fresno Co., Cal. Chamber of commerce. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (Fresno?)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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portion of the County are always cool.These may be reached in about eight or ten hours drive fromFresno City. There is probably no other equal area ofcountry capable of producing a greater va-riety of valuable commodities than can be produced in FresnoCounty. Among those that are successfully produced in com-mercial quantities are: Cattle, horses, sheep, hogs, hides, wooland tallow, lumber, fire wood, gold, copper, petroleum, wheat,barley, oats, rye, Indian corn, Egyptian corn, broom corn, or-anges, lemons, olives, figs, all kinds of deciduous fruits, tablegrapes, raisin grapes, dried fruits, raisins, wines and brandies,butter, cheese, poultry, eggs, all kinds of garden vegetables,sweet and Irish potatoes, tomatoes, celery, all kinds of berries,honey, etc. There are over^ 500,000 deciduous fruit trees inthe County, and this number is being added to each season.There are about 40,000 acres of vineyard producing raisinand wine grapes. r.i;v. rm :7 I. 1>V . m %r Cmperor Table Gmp««
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Fresno Irrigating Canal IRRIGATION In California irrigation is the one great neees-FACILITIES sity if success is to follow the efforts of thefarmer. Such are the results of irrigation that no well in-formed person thinks of purchasing a piece of land in a sec-tion of country that is not well supplied with water. In thisregard Fresno County may truthfully claim to have facilitiesthat are much beter than those of any other point in the UnitedStates. The water for the Fresno system comes from thesnows and glaciers of the high Sierras, from a region knownas the American Alps. The mountains in this region reachgreat altitudes, and during the winter months snow accumu-lates in vast quantities upon the peaks and in the canyons. Inaddition to this snow there are glaciers of living ice. Theseform a storage supply that is practically inexhaustible. Asthe summer advances the snow melts and keeps the streamsrunning during the irrigation season. The Fresno Canal andIrrigation Company operates a sp

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