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Item Newspaper articles - California: do you remember, promotions.(UNKNOWN, 1945) Relander, Click"From the Tulare Times of January 30, 1869: 'We were much amused at witnessing an attempt, by one of our citizens, to ride a wooden horse, supported by two wheels, and which we heard called a velocipede. By the aid of two men, he was able to keep his seat, and the speed attained was just equal to the supporters, who made it lively when they got on the 'get ready.' It seems to us that riding this machine, like skating, will require much practice and smooth roads. The thing is simple and neat but we feel like Paddy stated when invited to ride a rain, 'Unless there be some good reason for it, I prefer to walk.'"Item Newspaper articles - California: telegraph edition, Times history.(UNKNOWN, 1945) Relander, Click"Visalia turned out as a unit in June, 1860, to celebrate the installation here of the telegraph service of the Atlantic and Pacific line. The telegraph is just another of those modern conveniences which man today takes for granted but which was regarded as something of a miracle in the early days when railroads, pony expres systems and stages were relied upon the deliver all manner of messages."Item Newspaper articles - California: Delta history, Civil War,(UNKNOWN, 1945) Relander, Click"The Civil War had not been fought, the Mexican War still was fresh in the memory of most and Mussle Slough and Sontag and Evans were still far in the future in the history of Visalia when the Delta came into existence. On July 25, 1859, there appeared the Tulare County Record and Examiner, owned by I. W. Carpenter. On August 13 of the same year, J. Shannon and C. Killmer appear as owners and a week later, on August 20, they changed the name of the publication to the Tulare County Record. On October 8, the name of the newspaper became the Visalia Weekly Delta."Item Newspaper articles - California: edition short (part 2).(UNKNOWN, 1945) Relander, Click"In our peregrinations, we have seen a little of almost everything but this is the first flock of turkeys we ever saw that were being driven to market like other 'cattle' and they appeared as docile and tractable as so many sheep, strutting along in a manner that reminded us of 'the frog and the ox.' They were the property of Mr. James Elliott and were raised in this county."Item Newspaper articles - California: modern citrus, deciduous fruit, three rivers, other towns.(UNKNOWN, 1945) Relander, Click; Gilfillan, W. E.; Johnston, J. C."Few counties in California have as large a diversified deciduous fruit industry as has Tulare county. The total of 32,000 acres devoted to production of deciduous fruits and nuts is made up of major plantings of peaches, prunes, walnuts, figs and plums and smaller plantings of apricots, apples, nectarines, almonds and pomegranates."Item Newspaper articles - California: Indian hunters, Indian traditions, Fred Steinman, John C. Fremont.(UNKNOWN, 1945) Relander, Click"The early Indian residents of Tulare county were expert hunters despite their lack of what then was considered 'modern' hunting equipment. The bow and arrow was the only weapon, the bow being made of mahogany or ash, strengthened by the laying over it of the backbone of a deer. Arrows were constructed in three different manners, according to the purpose for which they were to be used. For warfare and large game, they were flint tipped."Item Newspaper articles - California: edition short.(UNKNOWN, 1945) Relander, Click"Even as early as 1859, interest was displayed in the possibilities of fruit production in Visalia and the surrounding territory as evidenced in the following article, taken from the Tulare County Record and Examiner of July 2, 1859: 'First of the Season:--Mr. T. J. Goodale, the enterprising horticulturalist of this place, has left at our office some fine ripe apricots such as would tickle the palate of Epicures himself.'"Item Newspaper articles - California: Lindsay, Lemon Cove, Stapleford-Deputy affair, Exeter.(UNKNOWN, 1945) Relander, Click"Lindsay, situated in the very center of the most extensively developed section of Tulare county's orange belt, lies about 13 miles north of Porterville and 18 miles Southeast of Visalia on the east side branch of the Southern Pacific railroad. Orange groves in solid formation and stretching miles in all directions approach to and extend from the city which once was a rolling prairie where hundreds of cattle grazed. After the railroad came into the valley, thousands of acres were sown to grain, and later, when deep-welled irrigation was a demonstrated success, the citrus industry, which is still the leading farm endeavor of the community, came into its own."Item Newspaper articles - California: Vise, rabbit drives, mussel slough, railroads.(UNKNOWN, 1945) Relander, Click"Whether or not the city of Visalia was named for Nathaniel Vise, as some assert, nor not, as others with equal fervor aver, the fact remains that Nathaniel Vise was an early settler of importance and had his part in the settlement of the town."Item Newspaper articles - California: big oak tree, report on the Tulare valley, do you remember, promotions.(UNKNOWN, 1945) Relander, Click"Do you remember,' asks Gerard N. Davis of Woodlake, 'when the Southern Pacific stock yards were in the west part of Visalia and the country boys had to drive their cattle through Visalia's best residential district, much to the detriment of well kept lawns and yards? The first move to have the stock yards moved to other parts came about when 'Billie' Welks, old time cattle buyer had a stampede through several yards, including that of the W. R. Spaulding home and other adjoining show places'."Item Newspaper articles - California: game edition, Mineral King, McCrory lynching, Shannon slaying, Whitmore with Maddox.(UNKNOWN, 1945) Relander, Click; Buckman, C. T."The editor of the Anniversaries Edition considers himself fortunate in obtaining the recollections of Mrs. P. F. Ropp who, born Minnie Katie McGinnis, was the first white child born in Mineral King. Mrs. Roop recalls attending a school which was washed down the river and which was used exactly where and as the flood waters had placed it."Item Newspaper articles - California: promotions, Goshen, deciduous fruit, grain production.(UNKNOWN, 1945) Relander, Click; Gilfillan, W. E."The construction, in 1874, of the Visalia-Goshen railway inspired new hopes in the future of the town as a great railway center. In 1876, work was started on the westerly branch, running through the Mussel Slough country, and supposed to make connections at Tres Pinos. This road got as far as Alcalde only. However, Goshen did become the railroad center of the county and of the San Joaquin valley. Geographically, it is admirably situated, being midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles and within touching distance of Visalia and Exeter on the one hand, and with Hanford and Calinga on the other."Item Newspaper articles - California: Beulah Mineral King, early train robberies, early county schools.(UNKNOWN, 1945) Relander, Click"Few of those persons from the valley aho have built summer homes and still fewer of those others who visit Mineral King annually know that the place once was the center of the gold rush and that many fortunes were lost in seeking the precious metal. Sixty miles east of Visalia, at the source of the Kaweah river, is situated this beautiful section. Here, at an altitude of 8000 feet, the summer climate is cool and invigorating, and this, together with the numerous nearby scenic attractions, the abundant wild feed, the good fishing, has caused it to become a resort section visited in the summer by multitudes from throughout the nation."Item Newspaper articles - California: edition short stories, cotton-with early agriculture, Tarusa.(UNKNOWN, 1945) Relander, Click; Coker, Anita M."It is a fact that we have a milk wagon now running through the streets of Visalia. Mr. E. Smith will deliver milk to the citizens of the town every morning and evening. This astonishing enterprise in a 'cow country' should be encouraged. --Visalia Weekly Delta, February 18, 1860."Item Newspaper articles - California: Tulare, Dinuba and Sultana.(UNKNOWN, 1945) Relander, Click"Tulare is situated on the main lines of both the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe railroads some 10 miles south of Visalia. A checkered career, marked by a series of misfortunes has been the lot of the city of Tulare. Founded by the Southern Pacific railway company, Tulare lies almot equidistant from San Francisco and Lost Angeles in the heart of one of the richest dairying districts in the San Joaquin valley. Designed to become the county seat, Tulare at first had the brightest prospects before disaster swept in in the form of a succession of devastating fires and oppressive debt caused many to abandon hope and for a time business just ceased to exist."Item Newspaper articles - California: The Record of the Rings, Barbour bill.(UNKNOWN, 1945) Relander, Click"A tree that has lived several thousand years, if it can tell its story, may well bear historical evidence of climate changes. There is great variation in the diameters of the annual rings. On a cross section of a Sequoia gigantea there are places where a hundred or more rings may be found within the compass of an inch, and other places where the annual ring is an eighth or even a quarter of an inch in diameter. What has caused this difference?"Item Newspaper articles - California: edition short.(UNKNOWN, 1945) Relander, Click"It is said that Dack Lee, a rather prominent 'heathen Chinee' in these parts, has become insane. Yesterday morning he amused himself by perambulating the streets with a loaded shotgun and when he arrived in front of Grant's Variety Store, he closed the program by firing two shots into his show window, shattering it to smithereens. He was arrested by Marshal Meyers.--Tulare County Times, December 7, 1872."Item Newspaper articles - California: early Times days, dailies.(UNKNOWN, 1945) Relander, Click; Westcott, Earl"In 1900, and for more than a decade prior thereto, the plant of the Visalia Times and its correlate, the Tulare County Times, were housed in the old Centennial hall. This, constituting the entire second floor of the brick building yet standing, a sturdy reminder of the days when Visalia still was young, was situated about midway on Court street between Main and Center and cornered the alley across from the Palace Hotel annex. This upper floor now is a lodging house."Item Newspaper articles - California: edition short, Father Dade, early artisian wells,(UNKNOWN, 1945) Relander, Click"Perhaps no one is remembered with as much reverence as is Father Dade, who came to Visalia as a missionary priest in May 1861, according to Miss Annie Mitchell, who has compiled much data on the early history of Visalia and Tulare county. This kind, hard working priest not only established St. Mary's, the oldest parish in the valley, but started one of Visalia's earliest schools, the Academy of the Nativity."Item Newspaper articles - California: promotions, can you name them?, amateur photographers, do you remember.(UNKNOWN, 1945) Relander, ClickMay 26 today has been designated by Mayor J. P. Gannon as Newspaper Day to mark the publication of the forthcoming Anniversaries Edition of the Visalia Times-Delta and the Morning Delta, to be issued the latter part of May. The proclamation of Mayor Gannon follows: 'It is fitting and proper that the Anniversaries Edition of the Visalia Times-Delta and the Morning Delta, which will mark several anniversaries of the city and county, should receive special and official recognition.'"