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TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



come north to the Sacramento Valley to find a more equable climate, 

 unless he decides to cross into Santa Barbara or Los Angeles Counties and 

 winter there; even then the great Sacramento Valley will compare favor- 

 ably with those counties in a great many respects. The mean annual 

 temperature of Los Angeles and Santa Barbara are the same as Sacra- 

 mento, but the average winter temperature of the two former places are 

 much milder than that of Sacramento City. 



Stations and Counties. 



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Stockton 



Lathrop 



Tracy or Ellis 



Farmington 



Merced County: 



Merced 



Fresno County: 



Borden 



Fresno 



Kingsburgh 



Tulare County: 



Goshen 



Tulare 



Visalia . 



Tuohy's Ranch, Lewis Val 



ley 



Lemoore 



Kern County: 



Delano 



Sumner 



Caliente 



Keene.. 



Tehachapi 



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25 



76 



111 



171 



274 

 295 

 301 



286 

 289 

 335 



440 



227 



319 



422 

 1,290 

 2,705 

 3,964 

 2,751 



48.1 

 46.3 

 48.8 

 46.2 



49.2 



48.4 

 50.2 

 49.0 



49.1 

 46.6 

 45.4 



47.1 

 46.1 



50.4 

 49.6 

 51.8 

 44.6 

 39.1 

 47.4 



59.7 

 59.4 

 62.3 

 60.2 



61.2 



61.5 

 64.9 

 62.5 



63.6 

 62.8 

 59.4 



62.5 

 62.0 



64.7 

 65.0 

 63.0 

 55.0 

 51.8 

 59.6 



72.3 

 72.1 

 77.6 

 75.6 



78.4 



82.2 

 84.1 

 82.6 



82.1 

 83.4 

 80.8 



79.4 

 81.3 



83.8 

 85.1 

 82.8 

 73.6 

 72.6 

 82.1 



61.7 

 60.6 

 64.6 

 62.6 



64.5 



67.1 

 67.6 

 66.2 



67.5 

 65.1 

 60.3 



62.3 

 63.8 



68.0 

 65.5 

 66.3 

 59.4 

 54.8 

 66.2 



60.5 

 59.6 

 63.3 

 61.2 



63.3 



64.8 

 66.7 

 65.1 



65.6 

 64.5 

 61.5 



62.8 

 63.3 



66.7 

 66.3 

 66.0 

 58.2 

 54.6 

 63.8 



110 

 106 

 112 

 114 



112 



118 

 115 

 112 



116 

 116 

 109 



106 

 111 



118 

 113 

 112 

 108 

 102 

 114 



20 

 20 

 20 

 20 



20 



15 

 18 

 10 



14 

 14 



18 



22 

 18 



16 

 18 

 23 

 9 

 zero. 

 12 



13.54 



11.98 



9.10 



15.57 



11.09 



9.27 

 9.57 

 9.36 



7.76 

 6.89 

 9.39 



11.15 

 9.82 



6.34 



5.02 



10.98 



13.28 



11.04 



4.94 



COAST AND ADJOINING COUNTIES. 



The resources, climatic conditions, etc., of the following counties: Hum- 

 boldt, Mendocino, Lake, Sonoma, Napa, Marin, Contra Costa, Alameda, 

 San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara (Lick Observatory), San Benito, 

 Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, and 

 San Diego. 



DEL NORTE COUNTY. 



This county occupies the extreme northwest corner of the State. It 

 embraces 66,562 acres of land, of which about two thirds is mountainous 

 and one third valley land. The population, as near as can be estimated, 

 is 2,800. Crescent City, the county seat, is 280 miles from San Francisco, 

 and the only means of travel from the metropolis is by steamers and sail- 

 ing vessels, or by a circuitous route over a mountainous road. 



The farms in the valleys have nearly all been turned into dairies, the 



