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Sacramento City directory, 1929, 1929
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1Sacramento has graduated from the class of the ordinary capital city to a thrifty metropolis of approximately 112,500.
3The 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. The city is built on a level plain with an incorporated area of fourteen square miles. The climate is semi-tropical, with an average mean annual temperature of sixty degrees, and an annual average rainfall of 18.28 inches (U. S. Weather Bureau 50-year record).
5Sacramento's most notable beauty is in its wide tree-lined streets and its 1219 acres of municipal parks. No city in the West equals this city in number of street trees, cared for and protected by the city government.
7Sacramento is the home of the annual California State Fair, the largest and most successful exposition of its kind in the United States.
9Notable among the historic points of interest are Sutter's Fort, now entirely restored to its original form, and maintained as a state museum, housing a priceless exhibit of relics of pioneer days Crocker Art Gallery, one of the largest and most valuable art collections in the West; and the $8,000,000 group of Capitol buildings, surrounded by a 40-acre state park world-famed for its beauty and the more than one thousand varieties of trees, shrubs and flowers gathered from every country on the globe.
11Sacramento's school system is recognized as one of the best in a state noted for its educational progress, with a $1,500,000 high school and a $600,000 Junior College typical of its outstanding excellence. On the Junior College Campus was erected last year a splendid stadium, costing $175,000 and seating 25,000.
13The beauty of its residential sections, modern public and business buildings, beautiful churches and splendid hospitals add to its attractiveness as a home city.
15Sacramento's recently completed million dollar Memorial Auditorium, splendid hotel and restaurant accommodations and its metropolitan theatres have made it an outstanding convention center, exceeded in numbers of state and national convention gatherings only by Los Angeles and San Francisco.
17Most remarkable of any feature of its development has been Sacramento's industrial growth. More than five hundred industrial plants furnish employment for approximately one-fifth of the city's population.
19The Southern Pacific Shops in Sacramento are the second largest in the world, employing regularly 4000 men. The company has a total of 5134 employees in Sacramento, with an annual payroll of $7,292,503. The Western Pacific, with its main shops here, employs more than 600, with an annual payroll of nearly $1,000,000.
21The principal industry is that of canning fresh fruits and vegetables, Sacramento's four canneries being the largest in California and two of them the largest institutions of their kind in the world. The twenty canneries in Sacramento County produce annually 18% of the total output of the 209 canneries in California. The recently completed plant of the American Can Company is the largest and most modern of the can factories operated by that national concern, emphasizing Sacramento's position as the canning center of the state.
23STATE CAPITOL BUILDING
25Sacramento has the only almond shelling plant in the world, and more than fifty per cent of the state's total almond output is handled here.
27Flour and feed mills, slaughtering and meat packing houses, rice and bean cleaners, clay, pipe and pottery works, lumber and box factories and similar institutions convert into manufactured products other raw material provided by the vast agricultural, timber and mineral wealth of the region.
29The region of which Sacramento is the metropolis and trading center—the twenty-one counties of Northern California—east of the Coast Range—produces 35% of California's total agricultural yield; 75% of its precious and structural mineral products; and has 9,000,000 of the 14,000,000 acres of virgin timber still standing.
31The sale value of the raw products of farm, mine and mill in this region in 1928 was
33Agricultural Products:
34Field Crops ……………………………………………………….. $52,000,000
35Fruits ………………………………………………………………….. 25,000,000
36Dairy Products ……………………………………………………. 16,000,000
37Vegetables …………………………………………………………… 10,000,000
38Poultry Products ………………………………………………….. 8,000,000
39Wool and Lambs ………………………………………………….. 6,000,000
40Beef and Pork ……………………………………………………… 5,000,000
42Mineral Products …………………………………………………… 48,000,000
43Lumber ………………………………………………………………… 30,000,000
45$122,000,000
47And to this might be added the estimated wholesale value of its hydro-electric power production, totalling $100,000,000
49Making a total of ………………………………………………… $300,000,000
51Sacramento is the banking center of interior California, served by eleven strong banking institutions, whose combined clearings average $450,000,000 annually, and whose total deposits exceed $100,000,000.
53HISTORY
55Historically, Sacramento is associated with three great epochal events in California's development.
57The settlement established August 12, 1839, by Capt. John A. Sutter at Sutter's Fort, now Sacramento, was the first settlement of white men in interior California, and marked the beginning of agricultural development that has made California third among the states of the Union in total value of its agricultural products.
59The discovery of gold January 24, 1848, by James W. Marshall, one of Sutter's men, at Coloma, sixty miles east of the city, brought about the great gold rush of '49 and '50, which so quickly populated the state that it was admitted to full-fledged statehood September 9, 1850.
61The transcontinental railroad started from Sacramento in 1863 and completed in 1869 (the old Central Pacific, now Southern Pacific), was the first to link the West to the East with bands of steel, and from the viewpoint of lasting benefits, overshadows even Marshall's discovery.
63Sacramento was incorporated in 1849 and chosen as Capital of California in 1854.
65FASTEST GROWING COUNTY
67Sacramento is County Seat of the fastest growing farm county in California, according to the Federal Farm Census.
69The census of 1910 gave Sacramento County 1601 individual farms. In 1920 the number had grown to 2975 and in 1925 to 3921. This was an increase of 144% for the 15-year period, 1910-25. The 1930 census will note this rate of increase continuing.
71With the increase in number has come a corresponding decrease in average size. Great grain farms have yielded to subdivision and intensive cultivation in more profitable crops. The average in 1910 was 295.5 acres, in 1925, 114 acres per farm. The average value in 1910 was $71.09 per acre. In 1925 it was $179.73. Total value of all farms and buildings in the county in 1910 was $33,630,820, in 1925, $80,399,382—an increase of 138%.
73UNEQUALLED DIVERSIFICATION
75Sacramento County, according to County Horticultural Commissioner A. E. Morrison, is the most diversified in its products of any county in California. This remarkable diversification is what makes for stable and year round prosperity.
77Sacramento County produces, successfully and in large quantities, more than twenty varieties of fruits and nuts, and every known American vegetable. Some crop is in harvest every month of the year.
79Coupled with rich soil, ample water and intensive farming methods, this diversity places Sacramento County in a place of conspicuous leadership among the high producing counties of California.
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