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and Rio Grande Valleys are the characteristic features of this district. Consider- 

 able effort at growing fruit, especiallj' the apple and the hardier vinifera grapes, 

 is being made in many localities. 



District No. 13 — New Mexico and Arizona north of latitude thirty-five degrees : 

 Utah : and Colorado above five thousand feet elevation. This district embraces the 

 Continental Divide and the Great Salt Lake, and it also embraces the valley and 

 canyon of the Colorado and the sources of tlie important streams south of the 

 Missouri and Yellowstone. It affords a great diversity of soils and climatic con- 

 ditions, and hence a wide range of fruit growing. Tlie species successfully grown 

 within the boundaries of this district range from the vinifera grapes to the hardy 

 ironclad apples. 



District No. 14 — The Dakotas west of longitude ninety-nine degrees ; Wyo- 

 ming : Montana east of longitude one hundred and eleven degrees ; and the Britisli 

 Provinces lying between longitude ninety-nine and one hundred and eleven de- 

 grees. The I^pper Missouri and Yellowstone Valleys are the distinctive features 

 of the district. There is perhaps no section of the district in which fruit-growing 

 has reached a very high state of development. Leading causes of this condition 

 may be found in the comparatively undeveloped, or unsettled, state of the country 

 and its great elevation. 



District No. 1~> — British America west of longitude one hundred and eleven 

 degrees and east of longitude one hundred and twenty-two degrees ; Montana west 

 of longitude one hundred and eleven degrees ; Idaho ; Nevada : and Washington, 

 Oregon, and California east of the general coast contour line of one thousand 

 feet elevation, crimmenciug at the r)ritish boundary near longitude one hundred 

 and twenty-two degrees and southward on said elevation to its intersection of the 

 Southern Pacific Railway in the Upper Willamette Valley, thencealong the line 

 of said railway to the Sacramento Valley, thence east and south on the eastern rim 

 of said valley and that of the San Joaquin at an elevation of one thousand feet to 

 latitude thirty-flve degrees, thence east on said latitude to the Colorado River. 

 The characteristic features of this district are the Uupper Columbia Valley and 

 the Sierra Nevada Mountains. An exception to the general recommendation will 

 appear in certain portions of Snake River Valley, where the vinifera grapes and 

 other tender fruits succeed. 



District No. Ifi — the coast section of British America west of longitude one 

 hundred and twenty-two degrees, and of AVashington, Oregon, and California north 

 of about latitude thirty-nine degrees thirty minutes, and bounded on the east by 

 Districts Nos. 15 and 17. This district embraces tlie highly developed fruit- 

 growing sections on Puget Sound, the I^ower Columl)ia. and the Willamette. 



District No. 17 — The Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, bounded on the 

 east by District No. 15. and on the west by the western rim of this great interior 

 basin. The diversified fruit and nut products of this district are marvelous. There 

 are localities in which the semi-tropical species and others in which the apple, 

 pear, and other hardy fruits and nuts are grown to the highest perfection. 



District No. 18 — The coast section of California lying between latitude thirty- 

 five degrees and about thirt.v-nine degrees thirty minutes, and bounded on the east 

 by District No. 17. Its characteristic features are the Coast range of mountains, 

 the Russian River, the Sonoma, the Santa Clara, and the Pajaro Valleys. 



District No. 19 — California and Arizona south of latitude thirty-five degrees. 

 The dominant characteristics are the valleys of the Gila, the Colorado, the San 

 Gabriel, and the Santa Ana and the Sierra Madre Mountains. It includes the 

 celebrated fruit districts of Santa Ana. Riverside, .Santa Barbara, the Salt River 

 Valley, San Diego, and many others. 



Districts 16. 17. 18, and 10 are peculiarly adapted to fruit and nut culture. 

 Perhaps no portion of the earth's surface is more highly favored in climate an<T 

 soil and affords a wider range of crop products than that lying within the bound- 

 aries of these four districts. The commercial value of the fruit and nut products 

 of this section are already felt and recognized the world over. 



