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Scan 6
Sacramento City directory, 1931, 1931
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1Sacramento Facts and History
3Agricultural
4Sacramento Region produces 35% of the total value of agricultural products in the State of California.
6Industrial
7Number of Manufacturing Plants:
81919…………………284
91928…………………575
101929…………………604
11Annual value of Manufactured Products, $73,589,278.
13Location
14Geographic 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.
16Raw Materials
17Center of great producing area including the widest diversification of resources in the State.
19Transportation
20Three transcontinental railroads. Three interurban electric lines. Three Sacramento River steamer lines, 265 vessels. Nine motor stage lines. Nine motor truck lines.
22Power
23Abundance of electric power at low rates.
25Water
26Excellent municipal water supply in abundance at exceptionally low rates.
28Available Sites
29Excellent locations on rail and water or both, available at reasonable cost.
31Municipal Conditions
32Conservative tax rates, excellent housing conditions, progressive city government providing ample facilities for industrial expansion.
34Labor
35Largest labor market west of Chicago with excellent relations prevailing.
37Opportunity
38A sound, prosperous, expanding section of California with increasing markets.
40The Sacramento Chamber of Commerce
41Is at your service for further information
43SACRAMENTO
45SACRAMENTO, 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.
47The close of the year 1930 marked an eight-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.
49Sacramento has graduated from the class of the ordinary capital city to a thrifty metropolis of 93,685.
51The 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.
53The 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).
55Sacramento'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.
57Sacramento is the home of the annual California State Fair, the largest and most successful exposition of its kind in the United States.
59Notable 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
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