Fresno
a city and county-seat of Fresno co., Cal.; on the Atchison , Topeka and Santa Fé Coast Line and the Southern Pacific railroads; 208 miles S.
E. of San Francisco. Here are a public library, high school, county hospital, business college, waterworks, street railroads, electric lights, National and private banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. The chief industries are newspapers. fruit growing and canning, farming, the manufacture of wine, and sheep raising .
Pop. (1910) 24,892; (1920) 45,086.
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