Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-10
SACRAMENTO.
The Great Railroad Gen.
ter Of the Coast
AND NATURAL TRADE CENTER
A Glance at the Commercial Adyan-
tageS aad Importance of the
Capital City.
THE GREATEST FRUIT SHIPPING
POINT IN THE WORLD.
Half a Million Pounds of Green
Fruit Shipped East In q Sim
gle Day, Besides Carloads
Consumed by Can
neries.
AND NATURAL TRADE CENTER
THE GREATEST FRUIT SHIPPING
POINT IN THE WORLD.

nerleS.
Sacramento is to-day not only great
railroad center, but the greatest fruit cen
ter and fruit shipping point in the world.
1t is also the leading trade center of the
interior and trans-montane region of the
Coast It has acquired this distinction by
reason of the natural advantages of the
position it occupies by the energy and
pluck Of its business men, and in the mat
ter OF fruit, by the general enterprise
of the people of the vast fertile section
tributary to the Capital City. When the
advantages with which Sacramento is by
nature, and consequent development by
man, endowed, are considered the only
wonder expressed by the newcomer is, that
we have not population of one hundred
thousand or more. There have been,
however, obstacles to more rapid develop
ment with which few other cities have
had to contend, and which would have
thwarted the efforts and purposes of peo-
pie less brave and indomitable that those
of our sturdy pioneers and their successors
and co-workers.
When supplies for the mines were OBJ
tanned from far distant markets, coming by
vessel through the Golden Gate, and
thence inland as far as could be reached
bv vrstar Sacrap,apfo hold Tho oJvo~+ooa
Gus position Of being the farthest inland
point that could be reached by deep-sail-
ing craft, and was at the same time focal
point which all mining sections could most
easily reach by teams and pack-mules-the
only means of transportation at that time,
from the ships side to the thousands Of
miners deIving for gold in foothills and
mountain.
GREAT RAILROAD CENTER.
The RBooRD-US1oN reproduces here
with map in outline, showing the imme-
diate railroad connections of the city of
Sacramento. 1t will serve to illustrate in
fair degree the commercial centralIty of
the city of Sacramento; the typographical
reasons therefor, and the proud position
it occupies as the important railroad center
Of the coast. All the great overland rail-
roads from the east, west, north and south
converge at this point, and here the i'm
mense construction and repair shops of
these several railway systems are located
A hasty glance at a few of the many roads,
converging at the Capital City, may be per-
mitted in this connection.
THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY ROAD
Was constructed from this city to Folsom
in 1852 \ few years later it was ex-
tended to Shingle Springs, and now has
been completed to Placerville, the county
seat Of 81 Dorado, thus opening the rich
timber, fruit, vine and mineral lands of
FL Dorado to the Sacramento market,
making this city the depot for the
trade and traffic of one Of the richest and
most promising sections of the State Fol-
lowing the building of the Sacramento
Valley road came
THE CENTRAL PACIFIC,
The great overland road eastward from
Sacramento, and opening up to our trade
all the central, mountain, and the trans
montane and territorial region on the
east and northeast. Upon the heels OF the
Central Pacific came the construction of
the Western Pacific, now part of the
Central Pacific system, and operated with
it by the Southern Pacific Company
This road leads southerly and then west
erly IRON Sacramento, traversing the
richest portion of the lower Sacramento
valley, crossing the San Joaquin valley
and thence through the fruitful regions of
eastern Alameda and to San Francisco.
subsequently line from Tracy followed
down the natural water side to tide water
and along the shore of Suisun bay to
Martinez uniting there with the line
skirting the southern coast of San Pablo
bay, reaching Oakland through the rich
est shore lands of Contra Costa county.
Following the building of the Western
Pacific came the consolidation of
THE CALIFORNIA PACIFIC RAILROAD
With the Central Pacific system. This
read leads from Sacramento across the low
lands on the west side of the Sacramento
rlver, through Yolo and Solano counties to
Benicia, where it connects with the line
liOul .rsAil jusl IelcEEcQ TO-
inally this road terminated at Vallejo. but
latterly cutoff was built from Suisun to
Benicia. The original line, however, Is
operated from Suisun to Vallejo, and con-
meets with the Napa valley system, and
also with line coming out of Sonoma
county, thus connecting Sacramento di-
reotly with the Sonoma coast region and
the Sonoma system of railways 1t also
-..1.
the famous Vaca valley region, and after
extending along the western foothills of
the Sacramento valley, passes up the
Capay valley. which has recently become
prominent before the public; thence ex-
tending along the Putah creek region to
Clear Lake, tapping the great lumser re-
gion of the coast.
TEE SOUTHERN PACIFIC
Road from Lathrep down the great San
joaquin valley cane next in historic
order. The connections made with this
road, ard which are OF importance to the
trade of Sacramento, aside from its
through business to the far south and Ari-
zona Territory, are the Stockton and Cop
peropolis road, the road from Gait, in this
county, TO lone, in Amador county; the
San joaquin aud Sierra Nevada road.
crossing the line at Lodi, isl San Joaquin
county; the sym Of the trunk line from
Niles to San Jose, connecting this citv
directly with the Santa Clara valley, and
with Monterey, Santa Cruz and the rich
coast valleys south from Monterey now
penetrated by rail, and which is to lap the
whole line of coast sSction southwark 1t
also connects with the new road running
along the west side of the San Joaquin
valley, commencing at Tracy, and With
The several new roads nov IN process Of