Sierra Vacation Land

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TULARE COUNTY IS lit%
Iornia, exactly halfway
and Los Angeles, and a!
center of the state. Bein
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mst, to mighty mountains and
other half, on the west to the
San Joaquin Vailey There ore no h<
measures about this divis~on. The esstern
of the county runs along he crest of th
portion of the S ~ e m
Nevada Mountains,
through the topmost polnl of Mt. Whiht
h~qhestmountaln peak in the United Slates 01
side Alaska. The western half of the county
as level as the eastern half is m u g h a wic
spread~ngplavn wlth absolutely no hills, a n d an
a very geenile slope to the west. Out ai this c
rangemeni, coupled with the dimafic conditior
comes a divms~tyof resources and attractio
scarcely to be found elrrewhere in the world
wlth~none such area. It is the purpose of this
booklet to bring this vanely of resources a n d (
trad~onsbr~eflyto the attentton of homeseeke
mnvestors, tourists and sightseers, for all d whc
Tulare County has fiomethinq to offer.
If you who read this b e a farmer desirous .
costing your lo1 on land in a new location, the+
Tulare County submits to you on its plains an4
~n its icothills, rich soil and climote which makes,
11 poasibb to grow upon that soil not only all the,
staple tarm crops in abundancs, but practically
all ihe special~zedcrops far which California is
noted. At the base of the snowclad S i e m
extending Into the foothills, the soil is particul
well adapted to the growing of citrus fruits. S
37160 acres of splendid citrus qroves are :duction in the County. If - would tr
hand at grape-crrowm~
has 58,904 acres d producing
varieties, table grapes, wine
grapes; more thousands of
to the growing of grapes. It is
ounty in the Un~tedStates in the
raisins, a n d the famous Red Emper.ch adorns :he Christmas table m
,!era home flourishes here a s nowhere e
~ e c ~ d u o uf m
s t s of all kmds. a s
3 a n d walnuts are mown in abunlacgost olive wckmng plant in the
Id is
ulare County and i t draws its supply
uit e: -1usively from the groves in the County.
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F west a r e m a y doir~eswhereon alfalfa
ofher forage plants flourish to feed splendid
_.ls of contented caws, the milk and mllk prowts of which find a ready sale in the eas~ly
ible markets of Loa Angeles a n d San FranCotton has reoently assumed a great
in the agriculture of the County bemuse of
excellent grade of the long-staple var~ety
ich is mown, and of he yield whlch far sur-
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First of ail, by way of prov'
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IS rapldly developmng a n important vegetablewins industry Finally, to round out the pi:.
the foothill arms furnish splend~d caHle
, a n d there Is a great gram-growing a r m
southern portion of the County. This IS a
-nail sketch of Tulare County from the standm of agriculture, its pr~ncipal~rldusfry More
tails of it will be found m other portions of thls
e added the fact that
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vineyards, and on into the foofhills, still on the
paved highways, until h e reaches the base of the
mighty mountain peaks. Then h e will c l ~ m bon
w ~ d eand safe well-kept mountain roads to a n
elevation, if b e wishes, of 9000 f e e t above sez
level: and from there, if the remote wilderne;;
lures him, he wall travel by pack tram into vast
and lonely areas unrivaled in the~rs~lentmalestic bwuty. Whether he tarries at the end of the
mountaln road or pushes on inio the hmher
reaches, he will view magnificent vistas o!
mauntam scenery, in infinite variety. Two Na
thorn1 Parks. Sequoia e n d General Grant are
within Tulare County. They contain the lamast
and oldest living thinus in the world-the
Sequoia Gigantea trees Accomodabons at the
various mountain resorts 01 the County are varied
in type d price lo meet the deszres and the
means of all who come to them.
The prinapal ciues of the County are Visal~a,
the county seat, Portcrvilh. Tulare, Lindsay, Dinuba and Exeter. They ate all connected by
paved highways. The famaus Golden State Highway (W.$. 991,the in!and route between Son Frmcisco and Los kngeles, traverses Tulare Couniy
for nearly sixty miles. The County is served b y
the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe Railroads, a n d
Greyhound and Santa Fe bus lines. From a n y
point on the vcdley floor, one can, in two hours
by automobtie, be among the cool mountain pines
in summer or en~oyinq snow sports in winter.
The seashore is four hours away.
Wrlh stwdy a n d assured growth in pouulatiun and in the production of wealth, there is in
Tulare County a n attractive held for the merchani
and the investor in a variety of lines of buslness
both commercial and industrial; and, a s just a
place to live, b e County offers cleon well-qoverned clties. schools of the best in every grade
including Junior Colleges, churchea of all denominations, and a friendly, hospitable people ready
always to welcome the newcomer who reslly
desires to make himself a permanent place in
the cgmmunlty.
Central Valley Water Project Will Provide Adequate
wnu@ly&$**
w, && FfmT
of c a m , , $ax mn. Rq??
fhnm fIw .*M
&I@ .rslbeaa@$rq .,myf l y in ~id$l.
EiiQQS
completud,will store 011saurpl:9
in a oreat reservor behind Shasicr Dam on the S ~ m l Rver
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about tv:e;vt: ~mlesn
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a1 Fieddhg !ri Shasta
County, lust More the Scffnnzeoto Rrver en1rrse3
1 1 ~ :the mountuins inm the Valley. Shasto Dam,
!ha ccintrirct for wkich h a been let, will be the
second h e s t concrete dam is> h e world being
exceeded in siae only by !ha Gmnd Coulee Darn
udal acnon ic:o he rrch delta .wion
c.dw of Sac-mento and S+ocktoh
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Supplemental Irrigation Water for Tulare County
SPORTSMAN'S PARADISE
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MAP OF
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PBDEAtCrtDlt OF WEALTH
IN TILARE COUNTY BURING THE YEAE!
1937
With tf;la tzsiskmce of &e d o u s grewe~s'assosicitions
and he lawe &yew rmd shiwws, we h a m camfully mmaci the bilowbq slhUstics lo-&w the totul mprozimafe
T d u s @I Ihe pradwb af Tvlme County for the year
1937:
As searegated md clamifid h a IoTl~winqtable shows
&a value of the princ@d +culturcrl
d u s t s QL he county.
ELOR
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Dded ....................
$
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Freeh ........................
ABparasue.Bwh h m k -.Cbntuloupes a d
Suoolv This Olive Packino Plant
2&025
83,47$
12,CQO
36,858
12.45%
Figs ...........................
Hav and
156,100
Unclassified ............ 1,750,000
Hides and Tallow.... 21,768
Honey
144,70$
Rcm .......................... 486,800
Lettufe ......................
I22.724
Melane
338,411 &. Fntits .............. 83,903
81,954
5,5Y95.,9%3 Misc. T&
Crops ..
C c d b ........
!278,370
Cottun ........................ 10,500,000 Olives
Cihus Fmib
Pwa ..........-. ............. 623,868
Poulbly und figs .... 2,425,702
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~ c ~ e l .e.................... 7,rn,518 mw......................
375,000
Vcdencicq .............. 2399,674 Peaches, Freeshm?
Lemons
,848,181 Dried ......................
82,440
Grctpafruit
50327
Cahned
123,650
Dairy Products ........ ?+,5E19,.%6
F k h ...................... 360,0133
Grm
1.S97.277 Peaches, Clln-nes
Graw.3
Dried .......................
28,905
Table
2,78781,150 Caangd .................... 1,092,250
790,305 PLms, Shipping .... 315,900
Wine ........................
Ra?sim
BBBotoes ....................
105,412
hklral Muemrb.... 16L.OM) P p i d (
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.. 23,290
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Natural Thompscars 1,7%3,91Z S-sh
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51,161
Bleached
Skmbenies ............
45.0 2.
Thompsons .............. 556,100 Tamatoes ................
%O, ~ $ 5
Sultana8 .57,860 Walnuts .......-........... 813,829
Z ~ t eCumtits ....
22,500 TOTAL
$47,338,613
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HISTORY OF THE TWLARE-gINGS COUNTY FAIR
THIS FAIR is held each September at Tul-,
California, located on U. S. Highway 99, midway
between San Francisco and LOS Anseles.
The Tulare Chamber of Commerce omanized
in 1919 what was known a s the Tulare County
Livestock and Agricultural Show whlch was held
on the property owned at that tune by the Tulare
Livestock Association, consisting of one-half a city
block of ground and valued at approximately
one thousand dollars with buildings and improvements valued at twelve hundred dollars. The
Livestock premium list for that year was about
two thousand dollars.
Two years later the Tulare Chamber of Commerce acquued the above and additional real
property, changed the name to the Tulare County
Fair and started a building p r o m . Other real
property was acquired from time to time, buildings and equipment were added each year and
in 1936 the Twenty-Fowth Agricultural District
was organized, comprislns Tulare and Kings
Counties, who leased the property from the Tulare Chamber of Commerce for a period of forty
years and continued the xmprovements and expansions until there was actually paid to exhiiitors of livestock and agricultural products fifteen
thousand three hundred dollars in cash premiums in 1937. The organization of the district
made it possible for the Tulare-Kings County
Fair to partielpate in State appropriations of sufficient amount to take care of the premium list of
all breeders of livestock, 4 H Club and Future
Farmer boys and agricultural exhibitors.
The property today consists of fifty acres of
real estate valued at thirty thousand dollars with
buildings a n d equipment valued at sixty thousand dollars.
At the present time arrangements are belng
made tor the erection of a grandstand at a cost
of around thirty thousand dollars, made possible
by a n allocation from an unappropriated surplus
of the Horse Racing fund.
The attendance has increased from eight
thousand in 1921 to fifty thousand in 1937.
TULARE COUNTY PARK§
THE GARDEN SPOTS OF THE STATE
Tulare County invites the World to visit and
enjoy the recreational facilities of its Parks.
There are four of these Parks; Mooney Grove,
located on the paved highway about half way
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