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| | Santa Clara County Genealogy - The Santa Clara Valley - 1887 |
 | | Santa Clara Valley, with its resources, and San José, with its beauties, are as household words to the Californian. |
 | | In the era that measured theexistence of this ancient river, it had borne in its turbid waters the disintegrations of the regions it traversed, and in the ooze and slime of the lakes that intercepted its course and stilled its current, was the decaying mold of generations of forests that had flourished on its banks. |
 | | In this description of the capabilities and climate of Santa Clara Valley, I have substantially described San José; for this is her environment, these are her resources, this the rich setting, of which the "Garden City" is the central gem. |
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