One anecdote describes Thomas Hunt Morgan banning the Friden calculator from his department at Caltech, saying " Well, I am like a guy who is prospecting for gold along the banks of the Sacramento River in 1849.

Young's party continued on into California trapping and trading from Sacramento to Los Angeles, returning to Taos in April, 1830 after trapping along the Colorado River.

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* Sacramento – San Joaquin River Delta ( California )

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Judah was chief engineer for the newly formed Sacramento Valley Railroad in 1852, the first railroad built west of the Mississippi River.

The slope elevation decreases northward toward the American River and westward toward the Sacramento River.

All surface drainage flows toward the Sacramento River.

Groundwater in the vicinity flows south-southwest toward the Sacramento Delta ; however, after peak rainfall, because of a swollen Sacramento River, the groundwater flow can actually reverse and flow away from the river.

Therefore in 1863, the tribes from the area surrounding the middle Sacramento and Feather rivers, the Konkow group, were removed and marched forcibly to the Round Valley Indian Reservation near the Eel River.

It was not long after the city had reached a relatively large population of about 10, 000, then the Great Flood of 1862 swept away much of it ( and almost everything else along the Sacramento River ) and put the rest under water.

Repeated floods and increased demand for Sacramento River water saw a plethora of massive changes to the environment beginning in the 20th century.

Alexander of the Army Corps of Engineers had written in his surveys of the Central Valley's hydrology and irrigation systems of a great network of pumps and canals that would take water from the water-rich Sacramento River basin into drought-prone South and Central California, especially the San Joaquin Valley.

As the construction of dams, power plants and canals required immense labor, which was rare in the middle of the Depression, the government authorized Sacramento River dams and other structures as public works projects beginning in 1935.

A third major canal, the Sacramento River Deep Water Ship Channel, exists not for irrigation purposes but rather to facilitate navigation of large oceangoing ships from the Delta to the city of Sacramento.

The Aqueduct's waters, which functionally extend the Sacramento River southwards, then run on to serve the enormous populace of California's south, supplying the needs of some 22 million people.

A successful one was the Trinity River diversion, which sent over 90 percent of the flow of that river into the Sacramento through a tunnel under the Klamath Mountains.

Others failed to take root – one of the most notorious, the Klamath Diversion, proposed to send the entire flow of the Klamath River into the Sacramento Valley through a complex system of reservoirs, canals, flumes and tunnels.

Similarly, the Dos Rios Dam project would have diverted almost the entire flow of the Eel River to the Sacramento.

The Sacramento River and its drainage basin were originally abundant in multiple avian and aquatic species, but modern-day development has thinned populations of many species, especially riverine.

It is surmised that between four and five million years ago, the Sacramento and Snake-Columbia River systems were somehow connected by a series of now-dry wetlands and river channels.

Caltrans is headquartered in Sacramento.

Like most state agencies, Caltrans maintains its headquarters in Sacramento, which is covered by District 3.

San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining from approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean.

The Delta Smelt, Hypomesus transpacificus is found in the Sacramento Delta of California, and is an endangered species.

* California, whose supreme court is headquartered in San Francisco and maintains only branch offices in the state capital, Sacramento, and the state's largest city, Los Angeles.

Sacramento is the capital of the state of California, in the United States of America.

** Ground is broken in Sacramento, California, on the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States.

** In Sacramento, California, Lynette Fromme, a follower of jailed cult leader Charles Manson, attempts to assassinate U. S. President Gerald Ford, but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent.

* January 28 – Richard Chase, the " Vampire of Sacramento ", is arrested.

( A second " Lost " Golden Spike is also on display at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento.

* Grissom Avenue at the former Mather Air Force Base, now known as Sacramento Mather Airport, Rancho Cordova, California, is one of a number of streets at the former base named after Mercury, Gemini and Apollo program astronauts.

Sutter's Fort State Historic Park is a state-protected park in Sacramento, California which includes Sutter's Fort and the California State Indian Museum.

The fort is famous for its association with the Donner Party, the California Gold Rush and the formation of Sacramento.

The compound was built near the junction of the American and Sacramento Rivers and is located at what is now the intersection of 27th and L Streets in the Midtown neighborhood of the city of Sacramento, California.

Red Bluff Diversion Dam, which sends Sacramento River water to a pair of irrigation canals near Red Bluff, California | Red Bluff, is a major barrier to fish movement and migration in the river.

For a river of its size, the Sacramento is considered to have fairly clean water.

On October 20, 2009 the WNBA announced that the Detroit Shock would relocate to Tulsa, Oklahoma ; the team is called the Tulsa Shock On November 20, 2009, the WNBA announced that the Sacramento Monarchs had folded due to lack of support from its current owners, the Maloof family, also the owners of the Sacramento Kings.

Fluvial transport is not often used for people, with the exception of those who cross the Río de la Plata from Buenos Aires to Colonia del Sacramento and Montevideo, both in Uruguay.

The Sacramento valley receives about 20 inches of rain annually, but the San Joaquin is very dry, often semi-arid desert in many places.

The state is often considered as having an additional division north of the urban areas of the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento metropolitan areas.

William V. Cowan, often nicknamed Bill Cowan ( born August 1943 in Sacramento, California ), is a retired USMC Lieutenant Colonel, co-founder and CEO of wvc3, inc., a Reston, Virginia based company specializing in international security.

In the ensuing months, Nelson and his wife, usually accompanied by Chase, drifted west to cities including Sacramento and San Francisco, California and Reno and Las Vegas, Nevada often living in auto camps before returning to Chicago some time around November 1.

The dam was built with the purpose of preventing the frequent floods that often inundated this part of the Sacramento Valley, and to store water for agricultural uses downstream during the dry season.

Unlike their predecessors, who were often troubled at the box office, the River Cats have led all of Minor League Baseball in attendance during each of its seasons in Sacramento.

In doubles, he often paired with fellow Australian Carsten Ball and the pair won back-to-back titles in the Sacramento and Tiburon $ 100, 000 Challenger events in October, in the latter tournament defeating a strong team of Sam Querrey and Steve Johnson 6 – 1, 5 – 7,.

Now, many cities around the United States and around the world host annual lindy exchanges, including Atlanta ( ATLX-Atlanta Lindy Exchange ); Austin ( ALX-Austin Lindy Exchange ); Boston ( dirtywater-Dirty Water Lindy & Blues Exchange ); Chicago ( WCLX-Windy City Lindy Exchange ); West Lafayette, IN ( LAFLX ); Knoxville ( KLX-Knoxville Lindy Exhange ); Orlando ( ORLX-Orlando Lindy Exchange ); Memphis ( RHLX-Red Hot Lindy Exchange ); Ann Arbor ( KissME-Keep it Simple and Swing Michigan Exchange ); Sacramento ; Washington D. C. ( DCLX-D. C. Lindy Exchange ); ( DetLX-Detroit Lindy Exchange ); Portland ( PDXLX-Portland is often referred to by its airport code, PDX ); Utah ; Charleston ( CHEX-Charleston Exchange ); Phoenix ( PHXLX-Phoenix Lindy Exchange ); Denver ( DLX-Denver Lindy Exchange ); New Orleans ( Fleur de Lindy ); Pittsburgh ( Pittstop Lindy Hop ); Orlando ( ORLX-Orlando Lindy Exchange ); New Haven ( CTLX ); San Luis Obispo ( sloX-SLO Exchange )- and many other cities.

While still in his teens, the saxophonist ( known by his nickname as Jimmy Z ) frequented nightspots in his hometown of Sacramento, California, often sporting his trademark dark sunglasses.

Although often confused with state parole agents, SSU agents are not affiliated with parole and work out of the Office of Correctional Safety, headquartered in Sacramento, CA.