. Resources of the southern San Joaquin Valley, California : Fresno, Tulare and Kern counties : topography, soil, climate, productions, railroads, and general advantages : 1,000,000 acres of government lands subject to homestead and pre-emption . loud isheavier, the particles finer, and of a yellowish tinge, but like the oth-ers, they are not of long duration. Irrigation and cultivation of theland will conduce to the prevention of these storms. They were morecommon when the dry plains were overrun with cattle and sheep,which ate the vegetation and trampled the surface into a fine dust. Another
. Resources of the southern San Joaquin Valley, California : Fresno, Tulare and Kern counties : topography, soil, climate, productions, railroads, and general advantages : 1,000,000 acres of government lands subject to homestead and pre-emption . loud isheavier, the particles finer, and of a yellowish tinge, but like the oth-ers, they are not of long duration. Irrigation and cultivation of theland will conduce to the prevention of these storms. They were morecommon when the dry plains were overrun with cattle and sheep,which ate the vegetation and trampled the surface into a fine dust. Another natural phenomenon, and which is of rare occurrence, is acloud-burst. These have happened in a few instances in the moun-tains and hills, where a cloud passing over the ridge meets with a coldcurrent of air and is quickly condensed. In some instances they havesuddenly washed great masses of debris into the gorges or valleys nearwhich they occurred, but only on one occasion has any loss of life beencaused by these cloud-bursts in any part of the mountains contiguousto the Southern San Joaquin Valley. Many people who have not resided in California, will probablythink this subject not exhausted without reference to earthquakes, for MERCEI .. NAMESorlRRlCATED COLONIES, fa Fresno- Central Caueo/ -Easterby Malt*hRichland-Sierra PaakVineyarl .Wittram- Walter- The 76. argp THE SOUTHERN SAX JOAQUIN VALLEY, CALIFORNIA. G3 a heavy shock in San Francisco in 18C8, and another in Inyo Countylater, have given the State an unenviable and undeserved seldom occur, and the shocks, when felt, are exceedinglylight. In portions of the State no shocks have been felt since the set-tlement by the whites. In the San Joaquin Valley people have livedtwenty years without experiencing one, although a few have occurredduring that time which were noticed elsew
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