Word: sacramento
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tumbled mountains of Northern California, among which Mount Shasta's snowy crest is the noblest (14,161 ft.), rush three sturdy rivers-the Pit, the McCloud, the Sacramento-to unite under the latter's name in a deep valley just above Redding, Calif. Since 1866 engineers have dreamed of throwing up a dam below the rivers' confluence, to stabilize the water supply of the whole fertile Sacramento Valley. Besides irrigation and flood control, hydroelectric power would be a byproduct, perhaps making profitable the mining of iron ores now locked in the wild Siskiyou Mountains north of Shasta...
...contract, will be bought separately by the Government. The Southern Pacific's railroad tracks and Western Union's wires must be expensively rerouted through a tunnel west of the dam. A long system of canals and transverse ditches will be dug, to carry water not only to Sacramento Valley farmers but far south into the San Joaquin Valley, whence waters have been diverted to thirsty Madera, Fresno, Tulare, Kings and Kern counties...
Harry Gillespie Moore, retired automotive engineer, prefers milk to wine. But when he went abroad in the twenties he made a beeline for the French and German champagne cellars. In 1932 Mr. Moore returned to California, and last week he told Sacramento reporters that after six years of experiment he had perfected a modern method of making champagne from oranges. To the juice of oranges and grapefruit he adds distilled water, dextrose and yeast. The mixture is then slowly drawn through a series of five glass-lined, airtight, chromium-fitted 200-gal. tanks. By the time the juice reaches...
...chapters make it plain that five men were instrumental in organizing the Central Pacific. The extra name was that of Theodore Dehone Judah, known as Crazy Judah in his prime, who surveyed the route of the Central Pacific over the Sierra Nevadas, persuaded Crocker, Stanford, Hopkins and Huntington (then Sacramento merchants) to back him, battled for Federal support, broke with his partners, and died in 1863, at 37, as the road he had dreamed about for years was at last being built. For Crazy Judah-"studious, industrious, resourceful, opinionated, humorless, and extraordinarily competent"-Author Lewis has great respect. The line...
...none of his vision. Under the terms of the Central Pacific's Government grant, the company got loans of from $16,000 to $48,000 per mile, depending on the nature of the territory through which the road passed. While it was still being built through the Sacramento Valley, Judah was asked by his partners to testify that it was in the foothills, so that the company would receive $16,000 more for each mile of track. Unwilling to be a party to this miracle of moving mountains, Judah resigned, died soon after. This left the task of building...