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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1953
Page
16
San Francisco acts as headquarters for a region that covers 37 percent of the Pacific Coast market. The Taylor Grazing Act provides for better federal range management by establishing grazing districts.
California’s 1952 hunter deaths totaled twenty with four shooters under 15 and eleven from deer rifles. Director Seth Gordon blamed tragic negligence, citing laws against loaded guns in vehicles, shooting near buildings, hunting while drunk, and failing to aid the injured.
From 1940 to 1950 land under irrigation surged in the United States with eight million additional acres brought under irrigation by the 17 western states. About five million acres were added 1945 to 1950. The 1950 census tallies 25,787,000 irrigated acres on 305,061 farms, with California contributing seven million acres, ahead of Texas and Colorado.
The text notes a wharf existed at the Ferry Building site in San Francisco as early as 1850. It also mentions the marmot and its hibernation behavior in cold months. The two fragments reference natural history and local harbor development.
Officials stressed the need to protect thoughtless hunters from their own foolishness as more than half a million hunting licenses were sold last year. They noted that the majority of hunters exercise care in firearm use.
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