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1897 - History Of California, Volume 3, Theodore Henry Hittell
1897 - History Of California, Volume 3, Theodore Henry Hittell
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Hittell dedicated the first portion of Volume 3 to early mining times in California including Pioneer mines, miners and mining appliances, Northern California mines, Southern California mines, gold distribution and gold rushes, struggles for organization and order, evolution of mining laws, and the lynch-law in the mines. Hittell wrote at considerable length about the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1851 and 1856, progress made in San Francisco, city debts, land sales, bank failures of 1855, growth of the State of California, People's Party reform, squatters, Land Commission Act, Joaquin Murieta and his banditti, Californian Filibusters, discovery of Humboldt Bay, Yosemite, …
1901 - Soil Survey Of The Lower Salinas Valley California, Macy H. Lapham And W. H. Heileman
1901 - Soil Survey Of The Lower Salinas Valley California, Macy H. Lapham And W. H. Heileman
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Prepared by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Soils, this report addresses the conditions found in the Lower Salinas Valley of Monterey County, California in 1901, including the development of agriculture, climate, geology, soil types, cultivation, irrigation. groundwater, and alkali found in the soil.
1994 - Agriculture, Water And California's Drought Of 1987-92, Kenneth W. Umbach.Pdf
1994 - Agriculture, Water And California's Drought Of 1987-92, Kenneth W. Umbach.Pdf
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The purpose of this paper was to summarize the 1987-1992 drought in the context of agriculture and water in California, to examine the types of response that farmers and institutions could and did use, and to draw lessons from that experience. California would be challenged as it grappled with population growth and environmental concerns. In view of the demand on water supplies made by California's agricultural sector (77 to 80 percent of the "developed" water used in the state, it was especially important to review those responses.