17 pages from a 46 page booklet by W.B. Thorpe, statistician of Sacramento County, promoting the city and county. Text covers the soil, water supply, climate, viticulture and citrus fruits, wines, brandy and malt liquor, stock-raising and darying, poultry farming, hops, flour mills and mill products, asparagus and general and product statistics. Illustrations include Oak Park, a vineyard, oleander tree, tokay table grape vines, a strawberry patch, a chicken ranch, and an orchard. In: "Sacramento City and County. California. The capital and the Garden of an empire", front cover and pages 19-33, 43.
