Fresno,

Fresno, capital of Fresno county, California, in the centre of a very important irrigated raisin-growing country, with a great trade in wine, fruit, and wheat, on the Southern Pacific Railway, 207 miles SE. of San Francisco. In one year as much as 1200 car-loads of raisins may be sent off, worth $1,500,000. The water required for irrigation purposes is brought from the mountains by an extensive system of canals. From Fresno there is a branch railway, twenty miles long, to the Sequoia National Park. Pop. (1880) 1113; (1890) 10,796.