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Sacramento City directory, 1927, 1927
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1INTRODUCTION
3The volume herewith presented constitutes R. L. Polk & Co.'s Sacramento Directory for 1927. The publishers have endeavored to produce a volume combining all that is vital in the civic, social and industrial life and activity of Sacramento.
5A careful enumeration of the citizens and business interests of the community and a compilation of the result by trained employees assures as correct and reliable a work of its character as is possible to be produced. The publishers have an organization solely devoted to the publication of directories, and their methods and resources are unrivalled. Their imprint on the hundreds of directories published for cities throughout the country attests the quality and reliability of their product. Directories are an essential and indispensable means of reference and an index to what is in a community. They portray it as it actually is and they are the only means whereby its various features can be learned by the general public throughout the country.
7The several essential departments of the Directory are set forth in the order following:
9THE MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT, pages 13 to 20, include data concerning city and county officials, churches, clubs, associations, schools, societies, parks, public buildings and halls, secret and benevolent societies, etc.
11THE BUYERS' GUIDE, pages 29 to 86, contains the advertisements of the leading and progressive business men and concerns alphabetically arranged under headings adapted to the class of business conducted. This feature is printed on tinted paper.
13THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES OF CITIZENS, business firms and corporations is embraced in pages 89 to 603.
15THE STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE AND DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS extends from pages 605 to 780.
17THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is included in pages 803 to 888 and shows the various manufacturing, mercantile and professional occupations, compiled under headings appropriate to the class of business pursued. This department will be appreciated as a special trade directory. The directory is the common intermediary between buyer and seller.
19Sacramento Facts and History
21AGRICULTURAL
22Sacramento Region produces 40% of the total value of agricultural products in the State of California.
24INDUSTRIAL
25Number of Manufacturing Plants:
261919…………………….284
271926…………………….420
28Annual value Manufactured Products: $64,000,000.00
30LOCATION
31Geographic and economic distribution center of the Sacramento Region, composed of twenty-one counties possessing over fifty per cent of the water resources of the State of California, rich agricultural lands and diversified industrial resources including lumber and industrial mineral deposits.
33RAW MATERIALS
34Center of great producing area including the widest diversification of resources in the State.
36TRANSPORTATION
37Two transcontinental railroads. Four interurban electric lines. Four Sacramento River steamer lines, 268 vessels. Eleven motor stage lines. Ten motor truck lines.
39POWER
40Abundance of electric power at low rates.
42WATER
43Excellent municipal water supply in abundance at lowest rates in United States.
45AVAILABLE SITES
46Excellent locations on rail and water or both, available at reasonable cost.
48MUNICIPAL CONDITIONS
49Low tax rates, excellent housing conditions, progressive city government providing ample facilities for industrial expansion.
51LABOR
52Largest labor market west of Chicago with excellent relations prevailing.
54OPPORTUNITY
55A sound, prosperous, expanding section of California with increasing markets.
57The Sacramento Chamber of Commerce
58Is at your service for further information
60ACRAMENTO, the "Heart of California" and the capital city of the State, is located at the confluence of the Sacramento and American rivers, in the center of the great agricultural and mineral producing area of California. With the background of a glorious history in which the city became the cradle of American civilization on the Pacific Coast, Sacramento, through her years of civic and commercial progress, has maintained leadership among the cities of the West.
62The close of the year 1926 marked a five-year period of development not matched by any previous twenty-year period in the history of the city. This was due in part to the progress of the Sacramento Valley and Mountain counties, and also to the large program of municipal development undertaken by the citizens themselves through their municipal government. During this period approximately $60,000,000 was expended on improvements in building permits, bond funds, municipal budgets and allied activities.
64The opening of the civic auditorium early in 1927 marks the conclusion of an unit of development undertaken by the city government in which vast extensions of the services rendered by the city were made. In 1926 the citizens voted another development unit of nearly $2,000,000 for further municipal service extensions.
66Sacramento has graduated from the ordinary capital city to a thriving metropolis of 105,000.
68The westward movement of population has found Sacramento one of the beautiful cities of the Golden State, a comfortable and prosperous community in which to live.
70The city is built on a level plain with an area of fourteen square miles. The climate is semi-tropical with an average mean temperature of sixty degrees.
72Sacramento's streets are wide and have been made attractive by trees. There are eleven municipal parks containing more than one thousand acres.
74Sacramento is the home of the California State Fair which is known as the best exposition of its kind in point of exhibits of agricultural products.
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