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FRESNO , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of Fresno county, See also:California, U.S.A., situated in .the See also:San Joaquin valley (See also:altitude about 300 ft.) near the See also:geographical centre of the See also:state. Pop. (188o) 1112; (1890) 10,818; (1900) 12,470, of whom 3299 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 1279 were Asiatics; (1910 See also:census) 24,892. The city is served by the See also:Southern Pacific and the See also:Atchison, See also:Topeka & See also:Santa Fe See also:railways. The county is mainly a vast expanse of naturally arid plains and mountains. The valley is the See also:scene of an extensive See also:irrigation See also:system, See also:water being brought (first in 1872—1876) from See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:river, 20 M. distant; in 1905 500 sq. m. were irrigated. Fresno is in a See also:rich farming See also:country, producing grains and See also:fruit, and is the only See also:place in See also:America where See also:Smyrna See also:figs have been grown with success; it is the centre of the finest See also:raisin country of the state, and has extensive See also:vine-yards and See also:wine-making establishments. The city's See also:principal manufacture is preserved (dried) fruits, particularly raisins; the value of the fruits thus preserved in 1905 was $6,942,440, being 70.5% of the See also:total value of the factory product in that See also:year (89,849,001). In 1900—1905 the factory product increased 257.9 /o, a ratio of increase greater than that of any other city in the state. In the mountains, lumbering and See also:mining are important See also:industries; See also:lumber is carried from Shaver in the mountains to See also:Clovis on the plains by a V-shaped See also:flume 42 M. See also:long, the See also:waste water from which is ditched for irrigation. The See also:petroleum See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field of the county is one of the richest in California. Fresno is the business and See also:shipping centre of its county and of the surrounding region. The county was organized in 1856. In 1872 the railway went through, and Fresno was laid out and incorporated. It became the county-seat in 1894 and was chartered as a city in 1885.
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