The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-04
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the entire San Joaquin Valley, for which
this city is the natural distributing point.
There is no telling what we will be five
years from now.'
S. NJ. Grifiths, of Griffiths & Wolf, has
had considerable experience in boom
towns, and he declared to-day that prop
erty here right now is by far the cheapest
of any in any town of note in California,
and that prices could be doubled and still
the rates would be cheap.
Gin the three months 1 have been here"
said Mr.. Griffiths, II have noticed sharp
increase in land values, but the increase is
almost nothing compared to what it will
be in year from now. L know the State
of California thoroughly. and 1 speak in
all candor when l say that there is no
place in the State where investments can
be made so advantageously as in this city.
There is very little idleness here, and
there is more money in circulation to the
population in Stockton than in any other
city on the coast. I have observed an air
of prosperity and of confidence that man
seems to breathe as soon as he strikes the
town. l notice also that there are no
dwellings to rent, and it is fact that to-
day there are a great many families
camped in tents along the rivers and chan
nels near here, waiting for houses to be
built
another great interest that the people
have almost lost sight of is this canal of
the Stanislaus and San Joaquin Irrigation
Company. 1t will be open in about a
month and then hundreds of thousands of
4 Id
small farms. All great cities are built up
by agriculture or manufactures, or both,
and Stockton has both. Stockton has an
agricultural region about her second to
none in the State. She is the natural dis
tributing point for the great San Joaquin
Valley and a portion of the Sacramento
Valley, as we'll as for one of the richest
mining regions of California. Only yes
terday a mining man of Fresno who is
opening up new properties in the noun
tains purchased $500 worth of supplies
here. Stockton as a manufacturing city
will be the Pittsburg of the Pacific Coast.
With an abundance of natural gas and the
cheapest fuel on the Pacific Coast, as soon
as the Corral Hollow road is completed,
the great manufacturing interests are
bound to center here"
D. r. Oliver recently returned from Wis
iting several of the leading cities of the
interior. He declared to-day that property
here is now worth more by from
quarter to half than in any of these cities.
why, he exclaimed, crates are ridicu-
lousy cheap here now, when one considers
what they will be in a year from now if
STOCKTON Hava1Opc cba b0,,Yd n
You wait until you see the people that are
already looking to Stockton ready to come
here with their business and willing to put
their capital in this place. Just as soon as
the Valley road is started you won't know
the city. From all parts of the State come
inquiries about locations for various enter
prises, and Stockton has shown that she
will foster every legitimate industry she
can. l don't know of any place on this
coast that would rather be in than right
here, for | have just that much faith in
Stockton's future to believe that she is the
best town for business man to tie to that
there is in California"
Work has been under way for several
days by the surveyors who are running
their lines for the Corral Hollow road, and
on the 10th inst. Engineer Storey has
said the actual work on the Valley Rail-
way will be commenced in this city.
Already the Lodi road has reached the
Smith place, some miles from here, and
the work of grading is going ON as rapidly
as possible.
The hotels are filed with Fasteners and
men from all over the coast, who are look
ing fo1business locations and investments.