The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-25

nnst be made of the Stockton Water Front
Tract. Originally E. !. Wilhoit and ]. f.
Devendorf owned the whole OF ''the
Peninsula as it is famiiiarly known IN
| this lively manufacturing city, but they
disposed of a piece OF it to the San Francisco
and San JOAQUIN Valley Railroad Com
pany for terminal grounds, and another
piece to the Corral Hollow Railroad Com
/ pany for the same purpose.
Inst across the river they owned tract
which thew sold to the Stockton and Lodi
Railroad Company. Thus the Stockton
Water Front Tract, now being SOFA Off
in subdivisions by H. Il. Without q
| Sons of Stockton, becomes adjacent TO
the terminal grounds OF three important
railroads But this is not all Inc South
/ .ern Pacific has branch hne which runs
| along one side of it to the steamer land
ings, so that with bath rail and water II Is
the most sought after of any property on
the market
Another disting gushing feature is the ex-
tent of its water frontage, as It's name I'M
plies 1t has water frontage OF 1uly
5000 feet. an important advantage to ware
housemen. and being close 10 depot and
dock no other property in this thriving
valley metropolis can offer such induce
mepts.
The time is coming when Stockton will
be one of the very greatest grain ana 1rule
shipping points on the Pacific Coast. Ihis
will mean a demand for big warehouses
and many openings for manufacturers IN
various lines of production.
Stockton is the fourth city in population
in California and the second in CO INNER
ciai importance. 1t is the first as an IN
terror manufacturing center. 1t Is IN
the midst of a section of unparalleled re-
sources, and down in the ground there IS
an inexhaustible supply of natural gas,
which may be utilized in TIME for power
as we'll as light and heat.
The Corral Hollow coal fields, now being
connected by rail with Stockton, are only
thirty-hve miles distant, and they will
supply very superior quality OF coal at
low prices. This fuel will be stored in
bunkers close by the Stockton Water Front
Tract-an advantage which no investor can
afford to overlook.
Stockton Is admittedly prosperous and
progressive. She is great milling center,
her four mammoth fiouring-mills having
daily capacity of 5000 barrels. She has
uVe harvester WOTKS. u Prov -.iduuIaCtoTy,
extensive woolen-mills, machine-shops.
foundries, wheel works, carriage and
wagon manufactures, potteries, paper
mills and streetcar works
According to population-hers is over
81 oOO-she makes the best showing of any
per capita as wage-paying city. For
years she has distributed considerably over
SIS, 900 weekly for skilled labor. She has a
magnificent electric street railway system,
and is far to the front as to sanitary con-
ditions. The com peting railroad-the San
Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Rail-
ways giving her wonderful squirt for
ward. AS the head of tidewater naviga-
ton, six capacious steamers make daily
trips between her and San Francisco.
Her manufacturing character, central To-
cation, shipping facilities, railway prog
ress, advantages of local transit, ratural
resources, and the fact that she is sur
rounded by a region surprising In pro-
ductiveness any other area on the earth's
surface, are not the only recommen-
dations she has however, for besides
these she enjoys low rate of tax
alton, an economical city government,
an exhaustible water supply, five public
buildings, an excellent school system,
handsome churches, clean and beautiful
streets, thorough sewer system, cheap
light and fuel and, above all, her citizens
are energetic and enterprising. All.