02366cam a22003371  4500001001300000003000400013005001700017007001500034008004100049010001700090040001900107043001200126050001400138100004300152245011700195260005200312300003100364520111400395530007201509540004201581530006901623651002601692651003201718650003001750650004101780650004501821650002901866650002601895856005601921856005101977rc 01000911 DLC20260227111901.0cr |||||||||||830422s1874    cau           000 0 eng    arc 01000911   aDLCcCarPdDLC  an-us-ca00aF867b.T81 aTruman, Benjamin Cummings,d1835-1916.10aSemi-tropical California:bits climate, healthfulness, productiveness, and scenery ...cby Major Ben. C. Truman.  aSan Francisco,bA.L. Bancroft & company,c1874.  a3 p.l., [9]-204 p.c23 cm.  aBenjamin Cummings Truman (1835-1916) of Providence, Rhode Island, was a Civil War Union officer and newspaper correspondent before coming to California in 1866 as a special agent of the Post Office. In 1870 he was sent to Washington as correspondent for the New York Times and the San Francisco Bulletin but soon returned to become editor of the Los Angeles Evening Express, and owner of the Los Angeles Star. In 1879 he became chief of the literary bureau of the Southern Pacific Railway. Semi-tropical California (1874), written during his tenure at the Los Angeles Star, defines "semi-tropical" California as portions of Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, San Bernardino, and San Diego Counties, but devotes most of its attention to the city and county of Los Angeles and neighboring San Gabriel Valley. Truman discusses specific mines, residences, fruit orchards, vineyards, and ranches as well as general patterns of agriculture, sheep and cattle raising, irrigation, and mineral resources. Beyond Los Angeles, he describes the towns and cities of Anaheim, Wilmington, and San Bernardino.  aAlso available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.  aNo known restrictions on publication.  aAlso available in digital form on the Internet Archive Web site. 0aCalifornia, Southern. 0aLos Angeles County (Calif.) 0aUrbanizationzCalifornia. 0aReal estate developmentzCalifornia. 0aMines and mineral resourceszCalifornia. 0aAgriculturezCalifornia. 0aBusinesszCalifornia.41dcalbkf203qtuhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/calbk.20341uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.0011022655A