. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California . d about !Smiles wide, and receives the drainage of 420 square miles of the CoastRange. Its elevation is 1,300 feet above sea-level, and with CacheCreek as its only outlet, it will be seen that nature has furnished amagnificent natural reservoir. It is estimated that 50,000 horsepowercould be generated by its waters, and that there would he enough leftto irrigate every acre of land on each side of the creek, after it reachesthe valley. SOIL. During high water. Cache Creek has
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California . d about !Smiles wide, and receives the drainage of 420 square miles of the CoastRange. Its elevation is 1,300 feet above sea-level, and with CacheCreek as its only outlet, it will be seen that nature has furnished amagnificent natural reservoir. It is estimated that 50,000 horsepowercould be generated by its waters, and that there would he enough leftto irrigate every acre of land on each side of the creek, after it reachesthe valley. SOIL. During high water. Cache Creek has brought down from the hills andmountains immense quantities of the very cream of the soil, ami forages has been depositing this upon the land. The result is that thereis a rich sedimentary deposit of from 20 to 30 feet in depth, entirelywithout hardpan, which is as rich as the valley of the Nile. This isparticularly true of a large area around Woodland, of which ProfessorWilson, of the University of California (see Bulletin No. 100, page 162),says: There is a strip of this material at Woodland, several miles wide,. 312 RESOURCES OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. extending a distance of 18 miles. There is no finer agricultural soilthan this sedimentary deposit. It is warm and fertile, with good drain-age, yet holding a reserve of moisture to resist drought. It is ideal fruitland. You may find growing on this soil, wheat, barley, oats, corn,alfalfa, all the vegetables of a temperate and sub-tropical climate, apples,apricots, nectarines, plums, pears, peaches, prunes, oranges, lemons, limes,figs, pomegranates, grapes (table, wine, and raisin), olives, almonds,walnuts, berries, and melons. Some of these lands are better adaptedto particular crops than others, yet I venture to say that there areeighty-acre tracts of this sedimentary soil in the valley, on whicheverything that has been named is now produced, and lam not surebut that within a single block in the town of Woodland most of th
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