KINGS COUNTY RESOURCES ILLUSTRATED PRESENTING HER INDUCEMENTS TO THE INVESTMENT OF CAPITAL AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF HOMES AND INDUSTRIES DAILY DEMOCRAT SOUVENIR. W. W. Barnes Publisher 1897-98 L. M. Powell Official Photographer Hanford, Cal. Sunset Photo Engraving Co. Engravers San Francisco, California. [Hanford: Hanford Daily Democrat W. W. Barnes Publisher, [1898]. 21.5x30 cm (oblong octavo), pp. [1-4] [13] 14-56 56a-56d 57-148 [149-154], flyleaves, chromolithograph pictorial extra title leaf (or cover for a paperbound issue) precedes title leaf, many illustrations from photographs, publisher's blue cloth titled in gold. First edition. A profusely illustrated promotional for Kings County, California, and its prominent citizens whose visages, homes, farms and businesses are pictured throughout. Kings County was formed in 1893 from the western portion of Tulare County. The area, previously inhabited by three Yokuts nations, is now a major agricultural region in the San Joaquin Valley. The county is the site of Tulare Lake, once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River in surface area. In the second half of the nineteenth century settlers drained the surrounding marshes for agriculture. The Kaweah, Kern, Kings, and Tule Rivers were dammed upstream in the Sierra Nevada, which turned their headwaters into a system of reservoirs. In the San Joaquin Valley, the state and counties built canals to deliver that water and divert the remaining flows for agricultural irrigation and municipal water uses. Tulare Lake was nearly dry by the early twentieth century. Rocq (1970) 2569. Cloth spotted, edges worn, text block shaken with a few gutter cracks, pages 23/24 loose, still a serviceable copy of a book that is uncommon in commerce and is a major repository of historic data on the late nineteenth century history of Kings County. (#177238).
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