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References:
1. S. P. Co.'s R.R. Shops.
23. Capital Grammar School.
2. S. P. Depot.
24. High School.
3. City Hall Water Works
25. First Baptist Church.
4. S. P. Co.'s Foundry.
26. Clunie Opera House.
5. S. P. Co.'s Hospital.
27. Odd Fellows Temple.
6. Electric Light Works.
28. Turner Hall.
7. Hall of Records.
29. Catholic Cathedral.
8. County Court House.
30. German Lutheran Church.
9. City Free Library.
31. City Plaza.
10. Episcopal Church
32. State Capitol.
11. Congregational Church.
33. State Exposition Building.
12. Pioneer's Church.
34. State Printing Office.
13. Golden Eagle Hotel.
35. Grammar School
14. Capitol Hotel.
36. Sutter's Old Fort.
15. Masonic Temple.
37. "Nob Hill"
16. 6th St. M. E. Church.
38. Town of Enterprise.
17. Presbyterian Church.
39. City Cemetery.
18. Armory Hall.
40. "Nama Colony"
19. Metropolitan Theatre.
A. Street Railways.
20. Record-Union Office.
B. Electric Railway.
21. Western Hotel.
22. Crocker Art Gallery.
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Sacramento, Cal.
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SACRAMENTO, the capital city of California, is situated at the
confluence of the American and Sacramento rivers, ninety miles easterly
from San Francisco, eighteen miles westerly from the lower foothills of
the Sierra range, and nearly in the center of the State; and for a
political seat could not be better located. The city has a
population of 80,000. Its municipal area is in excess of four
square miles. Fully two-thirds if this is compactly built.
Its streets are broad, heavily shaded, and afford admirable drives.
In its homes, Sacramentans take pardonable pride, since, for beauty of
surrounding, floral wealth and choice foliage, their equals are few.
The city is admirably related by railroads to the
trade and transportation interests if the coast. The California
and Oregon Railroad leads hence to and through Oregon, the Central
Pacific east to the transmontane regions, the California Pacific on the
west side of the Sacramento river connects the city with San Francisco
and its upper suburban towns and cities; the Western Pacific connects it
with the San Joaquin valley, the Southern Pacific leading to the Gulf of
Mexico, and by continuation from Lathrop makes a second connection with
San Francisco, and by branch lines with the Santa Clara valley.
The Sacramento Valley and Placerville line leads from the capital city
to the El Dorado Sierras. Feeder to the great Central lines
connect Sacramento with the leading counties of the State; both coast
and interior. By navigation of the Sacramento river, the city has
trade relations with the entire tier if river counties.
Sacramento is liberally endowed with churches.
They represent nearly all denominations, and the church edifices are
nearly all fine, and some are very imposing structures. There is
maintained the best equipped school system, supplemented by several
private educational institutions. One of these, the Sacramento
School of Design, occupies the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, a superb
building presented to the city by Mrs. E. B. Crocker, and valued, with
its collection of oil paintings, at about six hundred and fifty thousand
dollars. The State capitol, situated in the heart of the city, is
a classical structure, erected at a cost of upwards of three millions of
dollars. The Catholic Cathedral, Agricultural Pavilion, Odd
Fellows' Temple, Sacramento and Capital Grammar Schools, Courthouse and
Hall of Records are among the notably large and fine structures.
The Railroad Hospital, High School, Masonic Hall, Free Library, chief
hotels, State Printing Office, Old Ladies Home, and several business
structures are buildings that attract attention and are a source of
local pride, The Central Pacific Railroads shops in this city are the
largest mechanical works upon the coast, and give employment to two
thousand skilled and unskilled workmen. There are many factors in
the industry of the city.
The jobbing trade of Sacramento aggregates about
sixty million dollars annually, and extends throughout all the Central
and northern and mountain sections, and the adjacent States and
Territories. Sacramento is the chief fruit shipping station of the
State, sending forward in season far more fruit that any other point,
and generally as much as most others combined. Its rail and river
transportation facilities, nearness to the mountain range, contiguity to
the great foothill region, centrality of location, and climatic
desirability, all conspire to make it the most prominent fruit
forwarding post of the State.
The county of Sacramento is largely devoted to
fruit-raising and for grapes, berries and general fruits, its soil is
not second - and in many respects first - in comparison with all other
sections. Its river bottom lands are unquestionably the
riches of the coast, making Sacramento pre-eminently the chief
hop-raising territory of the United States. The largest hop-yard
in the world is in this county, as also the second largest vineyard in
the world. Of wheat, barley and alfalfa, the county yields
abundantly and of the first quality. The business and property
interests maintain a vigilant Board of Trade, an Improvement Association
and an Immigration Society, all actively engaged in promoting local
interests. Irrigation has not been needed in the county, nor
employed, save in berry farms and gardens through agencies that lift
water form bored wells, it being found in quantity and purity in a
gravel strata underlying most of the county area.
The new comer will find a climate genial and
bracing, free from enervating quality, and oranges and lemons ripening
in the air will convince the most skeptical of the practicableness of
raising them for market in this section. Semi-tropic plants
flourish luxuriantly in all the Sacramento region, the palm, olive,
date, lime, almond, orange and lemon finding the climate admirably
adapted to their growth. In all deciduous fruits the Sacramento
region holds the palm, peaches, pears, apples, apricots and all small
fruits of the finest quality, are here grown in vast abundance.
The raisins made in Sacramento county, being grown without irrigation,
are sweeter and thinner skinned that the more famous Fresno brands.
The fines pickled olives exhibited last year were grown at Florin,
Sacramento county. The Sacramento section is emphatically
agricultural; all cereal fruits, grasses and vegetables being raised
with unparalleled success and of unsurpassed quality. The climate
is semi-tropical. The heat of summer, owing to the dryness of the
atmosphere, is not oppressive, and winter, as generally understood is
unknown - as an evidence of which December and January ripens the
orange, and February is the month of flowers especially, while
vegetables are grown the year round, and berries are in market up to
December 1st, and even later. Snow and ice and freezing
temperatures are not factors in the climate. The health of
Sacramento city is of high character, and she stands second as the
healthiest city in the land. No other county has such varied
resources that are more easily or profitably developed. The
outlook for the city and its suburban country appears to be the
brightest. Free from the speculative craze; values not suffering
by inflation or decadence; immigration steadily coming in of the most
desirable character; local capital being abundant, trade expanding, and
the adornment pf the city and its suburbs constantly being made;
manufacturers increasing, transportation facilities augmenting; society
orderly, stable and of high moral tone, Sacramento presents herself as
one of the most desirable and inviting localities of the Pacific coast.
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