Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-26
FOR STRANGERS.
A SECOND PAPER on SACRAMENTO
ITS SOCIETY.
Government Situation = Business
Manufactures Social Features
es-Railways-Etc.

the location OF the city, ana mdue Soiue
remarks upon its drives and some OF its
social features, for the information OF
strangers and distant readers, such a large
clientage of which the RECORD UNION
reaches.
Sacramentos typographical situation is
very fortunate Situate midway upon the
navigable waters of the chief river of the
| State, the advantages of that great free
highway for transportation of the products
of the Sacramento valley, all contribute to
the fbusiness well-being of the city. In
addition to this water communication,
which gives an outlet for commerce through
the Golden Gate, and through which Sacra-
mento ships goods to the island and
Oriental ports of the Pacific the city is
railroad center. A line of railroad, the
I California and Oregon, has its beginning
! here, and traverses the entire Sacramento
valley upon the east side of the river to the
mountain barriers separating California
! from Oregon, and these are now being
penetrated and crossed to form connection
/ with the
I OREGON AND CALIFORNIA
Railroad, that will wed the Sacramento
valley to the Columbia river and the COM
merce of the north. More than this, a
| division of the Central Pacific Railroad
leads on southerly from Sacramento down
| to connection with the Southern Pacific
Railway that traverses the great San Joa-
| quin valley, taps the fruitful southern re-
eion, and relates us to the Gulf of Mexico
and the Mississippi valley. The SAME line,
/ by branches and extensions, cuts across the
State and connects US by two distinct
routes with San Francisco, the metropolis
| of the coast. Still another route of the
Southern Pacific Company to that city be-
gins at Sacramento, runs down the west
! side OF the lower Sacramento river, crosses
its current at the Straits of Carquinez and
! following the shore line of San Pablo bay,
connects us with San Francisco via of
ferry and car transfer at Oakland. From
point on this route, thirteen miles out from
Sacramento, q line of road of the same
company, known as the Northern runs
mp the Sacramento valley on the west of
/ the upper Sacramento river, connecting
with the Oregon and crossing the river at
Tehama. From Sacramento the
CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD
Leads over the first of the great overland
routes to the Mississippi valley and the
F., Atlantic coast, crossing the Sierras at an
altitude of 1000 feet only few miles from
/ this city, and relating Sacramento init
| mately to all the transcontinental Terri
tories and the sections from out of which
run feeders of rail lines to the Central and
Union Pacific Railways. Still another line
of railroad, having its genesis at Sacra-
mento, runs eastwardly into the foothill
region of the Sierras some forty miles.
Branch lines and rail connections of all
| tbaca limos olOcalv rotate tO 10
Napa, Amador, Calaveras, Nevada, Solano,
Colusa, Tuolumne, Mariposa, Monterey,
Santa Clara, Contra Costa, Alameda, Sono-
ma Marin, Santa Cruz, and nearly all the
southern counties of the State. 1t will thus
be seen by the stranger who examines the
map that Sacramento is not only
CENTRALLY LOCATED
In a geographical sense, but is CONNER
cially center of supply. Hence it is that
with terminal and competitive rail facili-
ties, large jobbipg trade has grown up at
this point, and extends in all directions
through the State and largely beyond its
bounds, and is steadily growing. Sacra-
Inento jobbers possess decided advantage
over metropolitan competitors. They re-
ceive their stocks ON equal transportation
terms, this being recognized, by reason
of its river port, as competitive
!
central northern and eastern trade, that
they can ship at lessened cost to the
buyer compared to shipments from San
Francisco ninety miles enthusiastically.
They are not required to lock up so much
! fixed capital in costly property. They have
ample storage room and the minimum of
lifting and handling, in receiving and dis
patching goods, for seasons already stated.
! The conduct of business here is more econo-
mic, because the investment on realty is
less, and the cost of living lower. and the
shipment and reshipment of goods is nomi-
nal expense. There are not here as in San
Francisco, dock charges TO pay, nor yet
drayage fees. In very many lines of manu-
facture and storage of goods, the 6ryness of
the atmosphere is decided advantage,
and notably so for everything in the line of
woodwork vehicles, agricultural machin-
cry, etc, to be used in valley sections, as
well as an advantage in the aging Of wines,
liquors, etc.
MANUFACTURES.
In these lines are conducted: Quartz
mills, milling machinery, flour and stock
feed, furniture, essences, brick, pottery
terra Gotta wares, drain pipes, tiles, harness.
wooden ware, soaps, brooms, matches, fruit
packing cases, publishing, engine, boiler and
car building, making, pump making
wagons and carriages, separators and grain
mills, gloves, doors, sashes, holdings and
blinds, turning, etc, etc.
The trade of the city in supplying within
its trade area noted amounts annually to
about $4S,000,000. Business is conducted
in liquors, groceries, dry goods, tobacco,
clothing, boots and shoes, hats, saddlery,
leather and shoe findings, canned goods
agricultural implements and tools. hard
ware, coal and iron, lumber, wooden ware,
paper and printers supplies, drugs and
medicines. yankee notions, books station
~, etc. The works of the Central Pacific
Railroad Company, employing with vary
ing seasons from 500 to 400 men, is the
largest industrial enterprise in the city.
RELIGIOUS AND INTELLECTUAL.
The city is well supplied with churches.
embracing the more familiar denomina-
tons. There is fine free library, the
State Library and the Odd Fellows Ii
| brary. There are many intellectual and
social organizations, superb city art gal
lery, with its School of Design, and the be-
ginning of a museum of natural history.
Besides the public schools there is q Bust
ness College, Sisters of Mercy seminary
and school, normal school, kindergarten
and private schools, music schools and lit
erary associations. The city has two fine
i theaters and eight public halls and four
lecture rooms. OF journals there are pub
lished in Sacramento two daily, four
weeklies, one semi-weekly, four month
lies and number of minor papers The
leading school books used in the common
school system of the State are printed and
| bound at the State Printing Office in the
city. Annually the
STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
Holds an agricultural and industrial fair
in the city. 1t has the finest driving park
and stock ground in the State, and the
largest exhibition structure west of the
Mississippi river. 1t should have been
earlier noted that Sacramento is the chief
point in the State for fruit and vegetable
| shipments eastward. On Second street
very near to the railroad depot, the
stranger will find the Office of the Immi-
grafton Association, where free of cost, in
| formation is furnished that may be i'm
plicitly relied upon regarding soil, climate,
products, vacant lands, tracts of land for
sale, capacities of different sections of the
State, etc This information relates to any
section of the State. but chiefly to the CEN
trail and northern portions, which we of
central California deem the more desirable
for climate reliability of rainfall, fruit. vine
and grain production, economic farming,
cheapness of lands, broad variety of pro-
duction, nearness to market and breadth of
profit TO agricultural industry.