Identifier: fresnocountycal00fres (find matches)
Title: Fresno County, Cal
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Fresno Co., Cal. Chamber of commerce. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (Fresno?)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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well known. The largestwheat farmer in the State gave his name to the place. Now,however, the recent discovery that the land is much more valu-able for fruit raising, is changing the character of the district.Cultivation of deciduous fruits, raisin and wine grapes and al-falfa, has shown that the land is particularly adapted to smallfarming, and that grain growing1 is a thing of the past. Manylarge ranches have already been sub-divided and planted byEastern people, who have built up comfortable homes. Themining of copper is the third mainstay of the Clovis district.Deposits, such as the Copper King and Heiskell, were discov-ered some years ago east of the town, and now Clovis is theshipping point for large quantities of the valuable ore. Clovis,like all wide-awake towns, has its stores, churches, fraternalorganizations, Board of Trade, newspaper, and so on. Thedistrict is irrigated by the water of the Fresno Canal and Ir-rigation system, one of the cheapest and best in the State. -40-
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