The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-10

of two competing railways and that town
is Santa Rosa, nesting in the heart OF a
land beautiful to behold and teeming with
innate richness. To be sure, Santa Rosa
has no claim to the distinction of situation
on tidewater or navigable ways, which IN
sure prosperity through proximity with
deep-sea shipping; but it has beauty and
a character peculiarly its own, and being
the very center of a wonderfully produc-
tive region its commercial wealth is as
.sured. Its products can reach sea ports
by either the Southern Pacific branch road
through the Sonoma Valley or the North
Pacific Railway to Tiburon, and with this
fact in view a Californian need not ask
twice why Santa Rosa is a furnishing city,
with refreshful signs of enterprise and
progress among her representative people.
To a stranger within the gates the first
advice a Santa Rosan will give is: "See US
and our valley from the Courthouse dome.
You will learn more about US in five min
utes than you can in month from what
people say
To the stranger in the fair city of roses
no more agreeable words can be spoken ;
for the view from that dome is rare treat
indeed. The panorama spread out be-
meath is beautiful as the land of promise
a broad plain stretching 10 the most pic
turesque of foothills, full of color from
purple rocks to deep vivid green LEAKAGE OF
pines and luscious grasses, far-reaching
pasturages where cattle browse content
eddy, and closer still fields that promise
corn and wine. Under the magic infu-
ence of spring the hundreds of orchards
are clothed in white or pink blossoms that
bespeak a harvest of great Righteousness,
and the vines are growing green. The
foreground, a picture in itself, is composed
of pretty homes and long avenues, with
foliage in great variety breaking archi-
tectural outlines, and ali leading up to the
bustling business scene Immediately be-
low.
Approaches to the town give quite diff
ferent impression. The railway forces its
way through blooming orchards, above
which are glimpses of roofs and church
spires and the high courthouse finals. In
such scene one would hardly look for
evidences of extraordinary activity in diff
ferent lines of industry such as those
which surround Santa Rosa And yet the
enterprises of this city represent yearly
volume of business amounting in the ag-
gregate to several millions of dollars.
In Sonoma, of which Santa Rosa is the
county seat, the yearly products of the soil
are about 100000; from poultry and
eggs, 81, 600, 0O0 and from dairy products
81, O000 coo. The total output of all prod
ucts is not lees than 100000 year, and
that means so much created wealth.
Among the leading industries of Santa
Rosa is I. de Turks winery, which has a
cooperage capacity of 10000 gallons a
storage capacity of / 800, 900 gallons and an
average yearly output of $4,000 gallons.
Mr.. de Turk buys grapes from neighboring
vineyards, and this maintains the vine
yardists in large measure.
Another immense winery is that of the
Fountaingrove Vineyard Company This
enterprise is owned by Japanese gentle
man who has managed the business of
wine growing and making for years with
remarkable success. 1t has storage ca
pacity of 100000 gallons in tanks varying
from 1000 to $4,000 gallons. In vintage
time 100 men are employed, and all the
year round forty men are kept busy either on
the 400 acres of vineyard or in the winery.
Over 100,0 600 gallons of Fountaingrove wine
are shipped to Europe yearly, and as much
more finds a ready market in New York
and Chicago.
The Santa Rosa Flour Mills, constructed
at a cost of $4,000, produce 200 barrels of
high-grade flour daily for shipm ent to