The Leland Stanford Junior University Palo Alto Santa Clara County California

Author : Palo Alto Board of Trade
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333255077
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Palo Alto written by Palo Alto Board of Trade and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Palo Alto: The Town of the Leland Stanford Junior University Alo alto is located thirty-three miles south of San Francisco. The southern arm of San Francisco bay is three miles east of the town, while a 'distance of five miles west is the Santa Cruz range of mountains, two thousand feet in elevation. Midway between the town and the mountains is a range of foothills. The ocean is eighteen miles distant. The town is situated in a grove of live oak trees, which give a beautiful efiect. These trees dot the entire valley, forming one ofits most distinctive features, and are much admired by vistitors. The houses are embowered in roses, jasmine and other climbing Vines, and the grounds adorned with palms and semi-tropic trees and shrubs and rare owers that blossom at all seasons of the year. Wild owers are plentiful, and among these the California poppy (the Spanish cup of gold) is a particular favorite, its yellow owers never being absent from fields and byways. The climate of this valley is notably mild and even. In winter it is rarely cold enough to form the thinnest ice, and during some winters the most delicate mof plants and owers are uninjured by frost. The rainy season is not unpleasant, as the rainfall is usually in showers, with perhaps two or three gentle stormslasting from two days to a week. The summer is free from extreme heat, the nearness to the bay and the ocean breeze serving to equalize the temperature. This sec tion is especially favor able to those who need a mild climate, and the 'healthfulness and the inducement to outdoor living make life a pleas ure to all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."