SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY WEST SIDE. 



Bordering the river and beginning at Newman, 120 miles by rail of 

 Southern Pacific Company from San Francisco, and extending southward 

 to Mendota on the same railway line, covering a distance of more than 

 fifty miles, can be found as rich a field for water-fowl shooting and for 

 marshland game as the world need to produce. These lands are trav- 

 ersed by the west-side line of Southern Pacific Company, and so abun- 



Anas Boschas. 



dant are geese and ducks, they are steadily flushed by passing trains. 

 Stops for sport can be made suitably at Newman, Volta, Los Banos, 

 Dos Palos, Firebaugh or Mendota, and a short walk will reveal 

 game birds in satisfactory numbers. The Los Banos Game Club has 

 constructed a house for the use of its members at a siding between Los 

 Banos and Dos Palos, at which trains stop on request or by signal. 



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