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Sacramento City directory, 1934, 1934
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1valuable art collections in the West; and the $12,000,000 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.
3Sacramento'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 in 1928 a splendid stadium, cost $175,000 and seating 23,000. In 1932, the City of Sacramento voted $1,146,000 in bonds for the construction of 3 new Junior High School buildings. All have now been completed.
5Sacramento's Junior College ranks in point of attendance as the largest Junior College in California. Enrollment for the 1931-32 term was 2364, with 64 teachers on the staff. Students are registered from 37 counties in the state, from Del Norte and Modoc on the north to Riverside and San Bernardino in the south; from twelve other states; and from seven foreign countries, including India, Japan, China and Russia. The college, which has grown from an infant in 1926 with an initial enrollment of 45, is housed in a group of beautiful buildings on a 61-acre campus, representing an investment of bond money totaling $600,000.
7The beauty of its residential sections, modern public and business buildings, beautiful churches and splendid hospitals add to its attractiveness as a home city. Several new residential districts have been created during the past year.
9Sacramento's 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.
11Most remarkable of any feature of its development has been Sacramento's industrial growth.
13The Southern Pacific shops in Sacramento are the second largest in the world. The Western Pacific has its main shops in Sacramento.
15The principal industry is that of canning fresh fruits and vegetables. Sacramento's three 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 309 canneries in California. The 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.
17Sacramento has the only almond shelling plant in the world, and more than sixty-five per cent of the state's total almond output is handled here.
19Flour 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.
21Sacramento County is most fortunately situated with regard to transportation. Three great transcontinental railroad systems, the Southern Pacific, Western Pacific and Santa Fe, offer quick transportation to Eastern markets. Two interurban electric lines, the Sacramento Northern Railway and Central California Traction, supplement the steam roads.
23The Sacramento River, ranking among the foremost in the nation in amount of tonnage carried and first in per ton value of cargo, offers rapid and cheap water transportation to San Francisco Bay and world markets. Palatial passenger steamers to San Francisco on daily schedule are operated by The River Lines.
25Paved county highways supplement the main trunk lines of the great state highway system to every important center in the county, and stage lines radiate in every direction.
27Transcontinental and coastwise air mail, express and passenger lines center at Sacramento's Municipal Airport.
29Sacramento is the banking center of interior California, served by nine strong banking institutions, whose combined clearings totalled $165,144,331.59 in 1933, and whose total deposits amounted to $91,894,966.14 in 1932.
31History
33Historically, Sacramento is associated with three great epochal events in California's development.
35The 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.
37The 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.
39The 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.
41Sacramento was incorporated in 1849 and chosen as Capital of California in 1854.
43AERIAL VIEW OF STATE CAPITOL
45Sacramento County Farm Facts
47The census of 1910 gave Sacramento County 1601 individual farms. In 1920 the number had grown to 2975 and in 1930 to 3882. This was an increase of 41% for the 20-year period, 1910-30.
49Sacramento 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.
51The following table shows the acreage planted to leading fruits and nuts in 1932: Almonds, 2206; apples, 162; apricots, 550; cherries, 818; figs, 293; grapefruit, 47; grapes, 14,767; lemons, 101; olives, 2277; oranges, 1439; peaches, 3079; pears, 9051; persimmons, 23; plums, 2113; prunes, 3005; walnuts, 1115.
53Leading vegetables and the acreage planted in 1931: Asparagus, 58,700; beans, peas, pumpkin, radishes, etc., 3000; sugar beets, 2000; table beets, 100; cabbage, 200; cauliflower, 100; celery, 2430; cucumbers, 1500; lettuce, 900; onions, 750; spinach, 1900; tomatoes, 3000.
55One of California's best opportunities for successful and profitable orange production
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