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amauga, Gettysburg and Chattanooga, Missionary 

 Ridge, Fredericksburg and Lookout Mountain; the 

 flowering dogwood in bloom, from Arlington ; the Judas 

 tree or red bud from Cedar Mountain ; the yellow poplar 

 or tulip, Fair Oaks; the walnut, Seven Pines; the ash, 

 Vicksburg; mulberry, Sailor's Creek, Spotsylvania and 

 Appomattox; the locust, Ball's Bluff and McKinley's 



Dairy herd grazing on young alfalfa near Modesto. 



home; the pine, Chickamauga ; oak, Andersonville. 

 Doubtless many incidents of the late war will be re- 

 hearsed \mder these trees during the Congress. 



Fort Sutter in Sacramento was founded in 1839 

 by General John A. Sutter who was prominent in the 

 early settlements of California. Many interesting re- 

 minders of the pioneer days are preserved in this fort. 



The Croker Art Gallery, The Chamber of Com- 

 merce with its splendid exhibit, the drives about the 

 city, the trips on the electric car, the boat ride on the 

 Sacramento to San Francisco will be of special interest. 



Sacramento is the center of immense transporta- 

 tion systems, and is just beginning to awake to its im- 

 portance. The steamers from Sacramento do a large 



Scene at Fair Oaks, near Sacramento. In the foreground are olive 

 trees near the house are orange trees. 



business. The Southern Pacific radiates to the north, 

 to Portland,. east to Great Salt Lake and Omaha, south 

 to Los Angeles and the east, and west to San Francisco. 

 The Northern Electric road now operating with pas- 

 senger and freight traffic from Marysville to Oroville 



and Chico, will be opened to Sacramento by the time 

 the Congress meets, and will later extend the line across 

 the Sacramento river from Chico to assist in furnishing 

 beets to the factory at Hamilton. In the near future 

 this road will be a most important factor in settling 

 the valley as it will be extended in every direction. The 

 Western Pacific (the Gould line) is building with all 

 possible speed from Salt Lake through to Sacramento. 

 The Vellejo and Northern is building a line from North 

 Vellejo on San Francisco bay to Sacramento, a shorter 

 line to San Francisco, tapping a great fruit region. 



An electric line, a hundred miles in length, from 

 Sacramento to Lake Tahoe, a summer resort, will be 

 built, passing the ground on which gold was first dis- 

 . covered in California. Three electric lines from Sacra- 

 mento to Stockton and on to the south are planned. 



Five years ago Sacramento was at a stand still. 

 Since that time progress has been moderate. Today a 

 new spirit is felt ; the people just begin to see a mighty 

 movement to build a new empire in the valley. There 

 can be no better opportunity presented to men and 

 capital than is offered at this time with Sacramento as 

 a center. 



Other sections of the state and other cities are not 

 disparaged by praise of the Sacramento-San Joaquiu 



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Orchard in the Penryn district, California. 



valley. This valley has been neglected, has been over- 

 looked. Its time for advancement has now come. 



San Francisco, the hub of the whole state, of the 

 entire coast, should have a complete issue of THE IRRI- 

 GATION AGE to herself. No single article could de- 

 scribe her importance, her part in the state's devel- 

 opment, her commercial standing, her unparalleled 

 heroism, and her brilliant future. Through her portals 

 must pass in from the nations and out to the world 

 the commerce of "The Great Valley." 



The subdividing of the large tracts of land ; the in- 

 tensive cultivation of the small farms ; the change from 

 grain farming to fruit culture, sugar beet and alfalfa 

 raising, and the dairy business ; the splendid transporta- 

 tion facilities; the unexcelled markets opening up in 

 the Orient; the building of the Panama Canal through 

 which our own eastern markets as well as European 

 markets, can be reached; and above and beyond all the 

 rich soil utilized in the fullest by irrigation, and the 

 matchless climate which has been called an "available 

 asset, a tangible factor in state building," may make 

 The Great Valley of California the home of 50,000,000 

 people with Sacramento the capital of the most pros- 

 perous agricultural state in the Union. 



