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"Among the earliest California oranges to reach Eastern markets are the products of the many fine groves in the Fair Oaks district" is the description printed on the back of this circa 1950 postcard. From 1880 to the late 1940s citrus in California grew steadily, though Sacramento County and San Joaquin County made up less than twenty percent of the 30,000 boxes shipped out of state in 1909. Local growing centered around Fair Oaks, Citrus Heights and Orangevale about 22 miles northeast of Sacramento and the rate of return was high, the gross yield of oranges running between 200 to 800 dollars an acre.
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