Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-01
QUADRUPLE SHEET.
ANNUAL REVIEW.
The Trade of Sacramento
for the Year 1879.
It Exceeds that Of 1878 Over One
and q Half Million Dollars,
THE IMP0RTANOE AND GROWTH
0F THIS TRADE CENTER.
The Volume of Business s5o Ag-
gregates s2o.27a,soo,
Exclusive of Banking, Insurance, Real
Estate and Many Other Transactions.
The Volume of Business 5r $40 .Ag-
gregates s2o27a, 500,
Exclusive of Banking, Insurance, Real
Estate and Many Other Transactions.
LOOKING FORWARD TO 1881 WITH
GLOWING ANTICIPATlONs.

The RECORD UNION again presents its re-
view of the commerce and trade of Sacra-
mento, on this occasion embracing the period
covered by the year 1879. Not until Janu-
airy l, 1873, was any accurate commercial re-
view made, with statements of fact setting
forth the amount of business done and the
volume of the trade of the city with
various sections of the State, and this first
effort was due to this journal.
FOR THE YEAR 1877
All the business houses of the city were Wis
tied, and statements concerning the volume
of business, its area, the condition of trade,
the outlook for the future the influence of
the Sacramento market abroad, ETC., were
cordially given to the RECORD UNION. The
result of the aggregation of these statements
was showing to the effect that the trade Of
the city in the year 1877 amounted to nearly
S25, 100000, exclusive of purely money
transactions through banks, insurance and
real estate agencies and the merely local re-
tail business. The showing for 1873. gath
cred in the same manner, made an exhibit in
excess of S27, 600, 0OO to which, if there had
been added financial investments of outside
capital, the record of transactions for that
year would have reached nearly S32, 600, 900.
Coming now to
THE REVIEW FOR 1872
1t is shown that, notwithstanding period of
depression extending over fully one-half of
the year, the trade of the city has exceeded
any previous year, and it is fair to conclude
that had it not been for the phenomenal polit-
ical agitation and want of confidence en-
gendered thereby, and the distrust in regard
to the value of property and its security,
the year would have shown an increase
of fully twenty-five per cent. in the volume
of trade of the city. With the approach Of
1880 and the change from dull to active
period, there is feeling among the business
men of this community in regard to the out
look for 1880 not only hopeful, but sanguine,
and belief that the year will be ass4ess
THE MOST SUCCESSFUL SEASON ;5.s1z-z. zs-e-1z-
Sacramento has ever known. The bountiful
early rains have mellowed and prepared the
earth for extensive seeding. and larger acre
age of all kinds of grain is being put in
throughout the State than has ever before
been done, and there is scarcely room for
doubt that the winter will afford sufficient
additional rain to insure the maturity OF
crops, which in extent have never here been
known. The past season, despite its inau-
spicious character, afforded the husbandmen
FAIR REMUNERATION
For earth products, and they have been ena-
bled to largely square themselves with the
world and take a fresh start in business life.
The mining interests have revived, legitimate
industries have awakened business has been
stimulated anew, and prices Of most raw ma
terials have greatly advanced IA sure indica-
tion of returning prosperity, and with these
the prospects of the Sacramento market for
1880 are the brightest it has ever known in
the annals of its trade history.
1t is to be noted, too, that there is a growing
disposition among the importing wholesale
houses to refuse credit to those who, during
the period of depression, forced compromises
with their creditors, who have by frequent
failures injured the entire business commu-
nifty. Indeed, the trade of Sacramento in all
its broad area, while having extended largely
and incre ased in volume in 1879, has been
placed upon
rIRMER BASIS
Than ever before, and has less of the pre-
carious credit element in it than the most
sanpnine exponents of the cash system
could have expected. The dishonest and
nnsorupulous have been put down with
a strong hand while the honest and
deserving have been aided and encouraged.
thereby making for the trade of the city
friends among that class of people whose
patronage is most to be desired. 1t is also
to be observed that there is everywhere ap
narent better understanding between the
several leading interests of the State, and 8
far better feeling and more cordial relation
shin among the business men of Sacramento
The several business centers of the Stats
have been brought into sharp competition
i but this has resulted only in showing the ad
yantapes of this city III clearer light thar
ever before.
THESE ADVANTAGES
Have been so frequently illustrated, and elab
GRATED at such length through the columns o
tbis paper, that nothing more than mere RET
-a,,.a IN them is now deemed necessary
The Sacramento valley possesses the chic
element of prosperity so essential to com
nnnitv advancement in California = tn
raasonable assurance of sufficient rainfall &
Guarantee regular crops each season. In ou
Sic;nity there is broad agricultural area
vast in extent, and rich in fertility. which
with almost unerring certainty receives tn
necessary annual rains. This is physl
cal fact which promises to the section In du
time dense population, and gives reason 10
the belief that this valley and the adjaeen
foothill region will constitute the populou
center of the State But there are
rocAT REASONS
Also why Sacramento as trade center l
particularly advantageous to all purchasers i
The interior. The city is centrally located
From it radiate railway lines, east, north
west and south. 1t is twenty-fou
niles nearer to the city of Los Angelo
than the metropolis of the State. 1t is on
hundred miles nearer to nearly all norther
and central California by rail than San Fran
cisco. and il is the only chief market at tn
foot OF the Sierra Nevada range, and tn
most accessible and economical for the trans
montane trade. This centrality OF locatio
insures rapidity of movement In the handlin
of goods Our merchants not only reeeiv
these goods which come across tbs continen