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fornia will produce but 8,000,000 bushels. And it 

 is estimated that the local delta regions, which 

 have an acreage planted to potatoes amounting 

 to about 44,000 acres will yield on a general aver- 

 age 100 sacks to the acre. This in dollars and 

 cents will represent about $5,000,000 for the total 

 harvest revenue. 



"After returning from the delta regions Mr. 

 Grubb met a number of the business and pro- 

 fessional men of this city, all of whom heard with 

 delight the announcement that Stockton will be- 

 come world famous in a greater degree than at this 

 time seems at all probable as a tuber district." 



SACRAMENTO VALLEY 



The Sacramento Valley is watered and has 

 been made by the Sacramento River and its tribu- 

 taries. It is a vast, alluvial plain, comprising over 

 2,500,000 acres of land. 



The annual rainfall in the valley is about eigh- 

 teen inches, and it comes entirely during the winter 

 months. 



Without irrigation the principal crop has been 

 grain wheat and barley. This is sown in the fall, 

 gets the benefit of the winter rains, and is ripened 

 in early summer. From June until the rains come 

 in October the country is dry and brown. 



With irrigation, every crop of the temperate or 

 semitropical zones can be grown. 



The Sacramento Valley Irrigation Project of 

 150,000 acres is the most important undertaking 

 in the valley. Water is taken from the Sacra- 

 mento River under an Act of Congress. 



There are wonderful possibilities for early potate 

 growing on some of the lands in this valley. 



The potato being a cool weather crop, in hot 



