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A group of local and out-of-state businessmen formed the Chicago-Fair Oaks Association, pictured here around 1900, to help sustain the budding fruit colony after the Howard-Wilson Company withdrew. The association lobbied the government and other potential investors and succeeded in realizing the construction of a bridge over the American River and a rail station to help the neophyte colony survive and prosper.
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