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Peak; broad level fields of fertile soil in San Joaquin Valley and 

 a modern garden of Eden in the Imperial Valley; rough ragged 

 lava rocks at Bumpass' Hell and Chaos Crags at the foot of 

 Mount Shasta; and the greatest range in variety of agricultural 

 crops of any State. 



Courtesy Orange Community Chamber of Commerce 

 FIG. 95. Oranges at Orange. 



A Bee-line of nearly 900 miles from El Centre to Yreka 

 traverses a greater variety of agricultural and geological phe- 

 nomena than any other line of equal length in any State. Trees 

 that date back to time before time began to be counted in cen- 

 turies; trees the largest and oldest in the world, others persisting 

 against altitude and snow till perfect botanical specimens of 

 willows, birches, and pines dwarfed to one inch in height on the 

 snow-capped mountains occur. 



