SACRAMENTO RIVER

a stream which rises in the northeastern part of California, in the Sierra N evada Mountains, turns almost due south into the ie Sacramento Valley, receiving many butaries from the Sierras on the east and from the Coast Range on the West, until it unites with the San Oaquin River; coming from the south, the two emptying together Bay, an arm of San Francisco Bay. It is ea 10 Be the in ee. Ane 270 | é able. waters one of fertile the most} valleys in the Unite d its waters States, being used for irriga tion. SACRED HEART.—R.C. cult of Sacred Heart of Jesus existed centuries before formal authorization; fixed as feast by Pius IX. in 1856.