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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 the important streams south of the Missouri and Yellowstone. It af- 

 fords a great diversity of soils and climatic conditions, and hence a wide 

 range of fruit growing. The species successfully grown within the bound- 

 aries of this district range from the vinifera grapes to the hardy ironclad 

 apples. 



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

 Wyoming; Montana east of longitude one hundred and eleven degrees; and 

 the British provinces lying between longitude ninety-nine and one hun- 

 dred and eleven degrees. The upper Missouri and Yellowstone valleys 

 are the distinctive features of the district. There is perhaps no section of 

 the district in which fruitgrowing has reached a very high state of develop- 

 ment. Leading causes of this condition may be found in the compara- 

 tively undeveloped, or unsettled, state of the country and its great ele- 

 vation. 



District No. 15. — 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; Ne- 

 vada; and Washington, Oregon, and California east of the general coast 

 contour line of one thousand feet elevation, commencing at the British 

 boundary near longitude one hundred and twenty-two degrees and south- 

 ward on said elevation to its intersection of the Southern Pacific railway 

 in the upper Willamette valley, thence along 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-five degrees, thence east on said latitude to the Colorado 

 river. The characteristic features of this district are the upper Colum- 

 bia valley and the Sierra Nevada mountains. An exception to the gen- 

 eral recommendation will appear in certain portions of Snake river val- 

 ley, where the vinifera grapes and other tender fruits succeed. 



District No. 16. — The coast section of British America west of longitude 

 one hundred and twenty-two degrees and of Washington, 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 

 the highly developed fruitgrowing sections on Puget Sound, the lower 

 Columbia, 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 dis- 

 trict are marvelous. There are localities in which the semitropical species 

 and others in which the apple, pear, and other hardy fruits and nuts are 

 grown to the highest perfection. 



