104 GUIDEBOOK OF THE WESTERN UINITED STATES, 



From^ Montalvo a branch of the Southern Pacific runs up Santa 

 Clara River to the oil district and connects with the San Joaquin 



Valley line of the same company. Immediately 



on a vo. northeast of Montalvo are the remnants of one of the 



Elevation 90 feet. ^y g^^ ^^ piy^^ terracos, and half a mile farther north- 



Los Angeles ^2 mues, ^ ' 



west is another remnant. The hills north of Santa 

 Clara River, between Montalvo and Ventura, consist of Fernando 

 beds, from 8,000 to 10,000 feet in total thickness. Fossils found in 

 different layers indicate that this formation ranges in age from the 

 upper Miocene to Pleistocene. (See table on p. 94.) The beds are 

 soft and form the south side or limb of a broad antielme whose axis 

 crosses Ventura River in an east-west direction about 2| miles north 

 of the city of Ventura. Consequently the beds near Ventura dip 

 south, whereas those north of the anticlinal axis din north, Knowl- 



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miles as a belt of relativelv low hills 



south. 



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Sulphur Mountain is an anticlinal fold of Monterey shale. The 

 Id is overturned toward the south, and the steepness of the south 

 ce of the mountain is due to this structure. This steep face is 



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and Montalvo. Some of the best oil in the State comes from wells on 

 the south face of Sidphur Mountain. 



The city of Ventura (abridged from San Buenaventura) is pleas- 

 antly situated on the terraced slopes overlooking the sea between the 



of Santa Clara and Ventura rivers. Besides 



Ventura. l^^^nr.. « ^ui;^i.+-f„i 



mouths 



seaside 



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Elevation 4 feet. machinery and has alar^re ti 



Population 2,W5. • x t i - 



Los Angeles 77 miles, apricots, and othcr crops. With its many charmmg 



homes, wealth of flowers, and lawns of the Japanese 

 clover (Lippia repens), Ventura invites more than the passing glimpse 

 to be had from the train. Its mission, built 



may be seen, together with the county coui 



looking up the streets on the right, soon after leavmo; the station. 

 A branch line runs from Ventura un Vp 



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which Topatopa (6,351 feet) is chief. 



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) Canyon and Wheelers Hot Springs are near by. Nordhoff is 



as a winter resort. The route from Ventura thither crosses the 



mando, Monterey, and Sespe formations and the Sulnhur Mountain 



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On the west side of the mouth of Ventura River, about a mUe i 

 west of Ventura, are some finely developed sea terraces. The 



