To promote a large-scale water project that was the forerunner to today's South San Joaquin Irrigation District, two men named F.L.
Originally printed in Stockton, California, the Bulletin was essentially a series of flyers distributed statewide promoting the irrigation of 70,000 acres (280 km2) of sandy loam soil around Manteca.
[2] With help from the South San Joaquin Chamber of Commerce, the Bulletin expanded into a standard-size weekly newspaper on June 3, 1910, when it was moved from Stockton to Ripon.
For example, Managing Editor Dennis Wyatt wrote that if immigrants "preferred their lives in whatever country they heralded where they weren't required to speak English to communicate in a business, in school, on a job or with the government then perhaps they should have thought twice about coming to the United States.
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