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Sacramento City directory, 1929, 1929
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1STATISTICAL REVIEW
3Name of City—Sacramento.
4Slogan or Sub-phrase—"Heart of California."
5Form of Government—City Manager-Council.
6Population—65,908 (1920) (Gov't); 110,723 (1929) Estimated.
7Area—14 square miles.
8Altitude—25 feet.
9Assessed valuation—$119,736,770 with $2.08 mill tax.
10White population is 108,723.
11Colored population is approximately 2000.
12White population of age: Males, 40,000; females, 35,000.
13Number of all males is 58,009, and of all females is 52,714.
14Native born population is 78.8 per cent of whole population.
15Predominating nationalities in city are Italians, Mexicans, Chinese and Japanese, Portuguese, Swiss, Austrians.
16Parks number 15 with 1264 acres valued at $2,428,750.00.
17City's bonded debt is $8,455,790.00.
18Financial—11 banks, 4 trust companies with total deposits of $96,101,823.76, resources $103,759,887.45, and clearings of $387,204,234 annually; 11 savings banks with $53,948,003.60 total deposits.
19Post Office receipts of $892,031.00.
20Telephones in service—29,584.
21Church buildings—65.
22Building and construction—Value of building permits $5,559,416.95, with 751 new dwelling units constructed this year.
23Industry—Number of establishments 575, employing 8500 men and 5000 women, paying wages $21,119,003 annually, and having products valued at $67,427,683 annually.
24Trade—Territory (retail) serves 350,000 people within the trading area covering a radius of 50 miles. Jobbing territory serves 500,000 people within a radius of 250 miles.
25Hotels—There are 132 hotels, with total of 6500 rooms. Newest hotel was built in 1928.
26City served by 3 steam, 3 electric railroads.
27Amusements—Largest theatre or auditorium seats 5000 people. There are 13 theatres.
28Hospitals number 4 with 973 beds.
29Education—Names of colleges, etc. Number of schools 35, including 1 high school, 5 parochial and diocesan schools. Number of pupils in public schools 22,713, in private schools 1700. Total of all teachers is 796. Value of all school property, private and public, approximately $8,021,218.00.
30There are 593,923 volumes in the libraries of the city.
31City Statistics—Total street mileage, 255; with 231 miles paved, none under construction or ordered. Miles of gas main laid, 14; of sewers, 3; electric street railway, 44; capacity of water works, 64,000,000 gallons, daily average pump of 23,910,000 gallons, with 219 miles of mains and value of plant estimated at $3,000,000 (bond issues). Fire department employs 181 men with following equipment: 6 autos, 8 pumping engines, 4 hose and chemical wagons, 3 hook and ladder trucks, in 13 station houses. Value of fire department with property is $181,505. Police department has 110 men with 1 station and 11 pieces of motor equipment, 7 motorcycles.
33Sacramento Facts and History
35AGRICULTURAL
36Sacramento Region produces 35% of the total value of agricultural products in the State of California.
38INDUSTRIAL
39Number of Manufacturing Plants:
401919…………………….284
411928…………………….575
42Annual value of Manufactured Products: $67,427,683.
44LOCATION
45Geographic 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 precious and industrial mineral deposits, lumber and hydro-electric power.
47RAW MATERIALS
48Center of great producing area including the widest diversification of resources in the State.
50TRANSPORTATION
51Three transcontinental railroads. Three interurban electric lines. Three Sacramento River steamer lines, 265 vessels. Nine motor stage lines. Nine motor truck lines.
53POWER
54Abundance of electric power at low rates.
56WATER
57Excellent municipal water supply in abundance at exceptionally low rates.
59AVAILABLE SITES
60Excellent locations on rail and water or both, available at reasonable cost.
62MUNICIPAL CONDITIONS
63Conservative tax rates, excellent housing conditions, progressive city government providing ample facilities for industrial expansion.
65LABOR
66Largest labor market west of Chicago with excellent relations prevailing.
68OPPORTUNITY
69A sound, prosperous, expanding section of California with increasing markets.
71The Sacramento Chamber of Commerce
72Is at your service for further information.
74SACRAMENTO, the "Heart of California" and capital city of the state, is located at the confluence of the Sacramento and American rivers, in the center of the greatest agricultural, mineral and timber producing area of California. With a background of history closely entwined with some of the great epochal events in the civilization and development of the Pacific Coast, Sacramento through her years of civic and commercial progress, has maintained leadership among the cities of the West. It is now the largest interior city in California and one of the most rapidly growing cities in America.
76The close of the year 1928 marked a seven-year period of development not matched by any previous twenty-year period in the history of the city. This was due to the splendid development of the Sacramento Valley and mountain counties, to the growth of Sacramento as a commercial and manufacturing center, and to the program of municipal improvements undertaken by the citizens themselves through the municipal government. Under the business-like regime of the City Manager-Council form of government, which has been in force since June 30, 1921, more than $80,000,000 was expended in building permits, bond funds, municipal budgets and allied activities. Building permits have averaged nearly $9,000,000 per year for seven years.
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