... SYSTEM DRAWING ITS WATER FROM THE SACRAMENTO AND SAN JOAQUIN RIVERS IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY SCHEME The Contra Costa meanders through a 48-mile stretch of pleasant valley and rolling hill, ending at Martinez on the south shore of Suison Bay, near San Francisco ...

... smokeless city, built on seven hills up and down which innumerable M.G. cars go buzzing. ALMOND BLOSSOM in the San Joquin Valley. There are frost dangers, and smudge pots interline the trees. MISSION RANCH, CALIFORNIA, is managed by Dale Carrithers, this ...

... only the west can be easily visited, but from the tourist's point of view this is the best part of the country. The lovely valley of the Rhine, with its magnificent scenery and vineyards sloping to the river, its ancient castles and fine cathedrals, is ...