Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-02

that it is certain to develop into one of tn,
most important markets for products upoI
the coast as the country becomes settled
and more and more of land is brough
under cultivation.
| 1t is for these reasons that Sacramento
I is the chief fruit and produce shippine
point upon the coast 1t is the most con
venient and the most central point a
which to gather in these products for ship
ment eastward, and in the matter of veg
etable produce for supplying the State o
Nevada and the Territories of Utah
Idaho and Wyoming. The completion o
the California and Oregon Railroad, form
ing trunk line of transportation from Pu
get Sound TO the Gulf of Mexico, will
Sacramento as its chief central station, i
the most recent event in our commercial
history, and one of the highest Importance
and justities second reference to it, The
line is located through the
RICH AND PoPULoUs
District embraced within the counties O
Tehama, Butte, Suffer, Yuba and the agri
cultural portion of Placer county. Tn,
extension of the line into Oregon com
pleted the connection of the California
| system of railroads with that of Oregon
and Washington Territory BY this line
the fertile and productive regions of the
Willamette, Columbia and Puget Sound
are placed in communication with this city
The line becomes a successful competitor
with the ocean for carrying the trade Of
mel of large commerce. While this com
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of the Columbia and the Golden Gate
Sacramento could hope to enjoy but a linn
tied share. With the completion of the
connecting line of railroads Sacra-
mento is able to offer superior in.
ducements to the trade of Oregon and
Washington. For all trade developed by
that line and carried by it, Sacramento
will sustain a primary relation. The
route of carriage from this point will be
cheaper and shorter. Orders for renewals
of stock can be filled in less time. The
freight from San Francisco to this city can
be saved. In short, the inland commerce
with that section developed by the rail
road has its chief seat here by the force of
all the reasons which grow out of superior
facilities of communication. The rela-
tions Of Sacramento and San Francisco. so
far as applicable to inland commerce, are
now reversed, and Sacramento becomes the
base of supplies for the section under con-
sideration. We now come in natural order
to consideration of reasons, local and
general, why
SACRAMENTO IS A COMMERCIAL CENTER
These have been several times stated
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them in a somewhat abridged form;
First That the cost of transacting
business. in the important elements of
rent, insurance and wages, is less at Sacra-
mento than any other leading point, be-
cause of ground area available, and be-
cause property is not held for speculative
purposes.
Second-The trade of Sacramento is
now permanently established, and is founded
in enduring advantages which will con-
stantly augment Ks volume.
Third-The city is centrally located and
is terminal point, and as such enjoys the
advantages OF through rates. From it
radiates railway lines, east, north, west and
south. 1t is twenty-four miles nearer to
the city of Los Angeles than the metropo-
lis of the State. 1t is one hundred miles
nearer to nearly all Northern and Central
California by rail than San Francisco,
and it Is the only chief market at the foot
of the Sierra Nevada range, and the most
accessible and economical for the trans
montana trade.
Fourth-This centrality of location in
sures rapidity of movement in the hand
ling of goods. Oar merchants not only
receive those goods which come across the
continent earlier than the coast markets.
but, in nearly all cases, fill orders for the
trade on the same day on which received,
and save to the purchasers from two to
three days of time in transportation, and a
material item of expense in the way of
freight
Fifth-The Sacramento merchant ac-
cords to his customers a rate level with
that of his strongest competitors, and in
great many instances lower rate. The
local situation gives to the wholesale dealer
of Sacramento all the advantages which his
business rivals of the metropolis claim by
reason of the large amount of capital there
invested, and the great volume of business
there transacted.
Sixth-The commercial base of supplies
for any region is always the nearest and
cheapest point, and as it has already been
shown that Sacramento, to vast and i'm
portant region, is the nearest point, and
that goods can be sold at desirable rate,
1t follows that the claim made for the city
is sound one. That market is also best
advantaged which not only sells but buys
which takes the product of the buyer as
well as furnishes him his supplies, and
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trade.
Seyenth-An artificial market cannot
have any permanence of growth; physical
facts always determine the degrees of COM
mercia importance; commerce has no
higher interest than its own; it builds up
great trade centers and points out their
locations, and no community, however
dense its population, can for any great
length of time dictate to commerce the
channels in which it shall move. What
ever Importance, then, Sacramento has as
a trade center to-day is the result of
natural advantages, based upon physical
facts, and affords undeniable evidence that
the city is one in the interest of trade and
responding to its demands that it is the
natural base of supplies for a vast region of
country which must always look to this
point as its depot, and market for the
sale of products.
EMBELLISHMENTS merchants are di-
rect importers. They are free from the
charges for wharfage which prevail else
where, and are visited upon the purchasers.
There is here no charge for drayage, which
saving also accrues to the purchaser. For
all northern, central and eastern sections
goods are shipped from Sacramento at
saving to the buyer, measured by the cost
of freight carriage between San Francisco
and Sacramento.
Ninth-Her warm, dry climate adapts
her admirably to manufactures Especially
is this true of all classes of wood material.
This enables our manufacturers to put up
work in furniture, carriages, wagons,
boxes, etc, which endure in any
climate, and outlast those made in a
humid atmosphere. As a lumber de-
pot, the city enjoys the advantage Of
of being located near the great sugar-pine
regions, and has cheap and ample storage
grounds, while the dryness of her atmos-
phere gives all lumber stored here a per-
fectly seasoned condition not possible to be
attained in the immediate coast region.
Storage of liquors here improves them, be-
cause of the dry, warm atmosphere, and
hence it is that Sacramento is a cheap
storage and shipping point for such goods.
Tenth-A consideration of the highest
as influencing the location of
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