[McGroarty, JS.] . The Griffith-McKetizie Build-ing furnishes a striking illus-iration of the high class of con-struction that is making Fresnoa modern The Holland Building, wherein arelocated the principal offices of the Cali-fornia Associated Raisin Company,composed of 7,000 raisin growers andannually marketing 180,000,000pounds of raisins. following the trails that a wandering footstep blazed, are notimportant. Those who came before the real pioneers caughtmerely glimpses of the vast empire, or touched only upon itsedges without ever dreaming of its greatness. Such was Juande Anza, t
[McGroarty, JS.] . The Griffith-McKetizie Build-ing furnishes a striking illus-iration of the high class of con-struction that is making Fresnoa modern The Holland Building, wherein arelocated the principal offices of the Cali-fornia Associated Raisin Company,composed of 7,000 raisin growers andannually marketing 180,000,000pounds of raisins. following the trails that a wandering footstep blazed, are notimportant. Those who came before the real pioneers caughtmerely glimpses of the vast empire, or touched only upon itsedges without ever dreaming of its greatness. Such was Juande Anza, the famous captain of Tubac, who blazed the firstinland trail from Sonoma to Monterey in 1776. It was deAnza, who, in October of that year, saw and named the SanJoaquin River and thus gave a name to the Valley itself. InJuly, 1825, Captain Jedidiah Smith, an American, with aband of hunters and trappers who were ordered out of Cali-fornia by the Mexican Governor, was also in the San , in 1835, Lieut. Gabriel Moraga explored the countryfrom San Francisco as far south as the Merced River—Riverof Mercy—which he so named as his parched trooper
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