The San Francisco call., 1897-03-26
BRIGHT PROSPECTS
FOR SANTA CRUZ
Charming Summer Resort
With Fine Commercial
Advantages.
Is the Distributing Point for a
Country Famed for It's
Rich Soil.
Future Business Certain to Grow
With the Expansion of the
States Commerce.

spite of the fact that Santa Cruz is far
famed as a summer resort incompatible
in the surroundings and scenic grandeur,
the city by tho sea is also likely to become
a thriving city with far more stir and evil
dence of commercial life than it now pos
sesses.
1t is the pride of the residents of Santa
Cruz to-day that no summer resort in the
world is more pleasing to the thousands
who visit it each year. However, the
beauties of the mountains and the glory
of the breaking surf cannot hide the COM
mercial spirit, which crops out in spite of
scenic grandeur. The possibilities of the
town and county were carefully studied
and eloquently portrayed few years ago
by Mrs. Boston. who was one of the COM
missioners to the Midwipter Fair. She
ably contended that the resources of this
small but fertile region were sufficient TO
put it in the front rank in competition
with far more am bilious centers. Indeed,
it seems quite natural that Santa Cruz
should become quite an important city,
because the peculiar conditions surround
ing it make it the participant of whatever
gIores come from land, sea or sky as well
as the beneficiary of the advantages of
rich soil and diversified resources.
In every State or kingdom there are a
few cities that one can never forget.
Something In their location or architec-
ture causes them to stand out in memory
beyond all others with lasting elements.
1t is the opinion of travellers. no matter
what parts OF the world they have visited,
that Santa Cruz is beyond all question
a. fba intf1 md nh ,ir,rp
spots in the world.
One of the great advantages of this beau
tiful seaside resort is that it is reached by
two lines of railroad and by steamer. The
broad gauge runs through rich region of
fertile farms while the narrow gauge in
tersects a country as rare for its scenic
gardens as for the fertility of its resources.
In all that goes to make residence city
charming Santa Cruz is up to the times.
1t has an electric road, bituminous pave
ments, good water works-one system
owned by the city, the other system owned
by a private company-and two telephone
companies supply it with thorough
service.
Though one of the very smallest coun-
ties in the State Santa Cruz is fertile in
those rich and diversified facilities which
make important com mercial centers. The
amphitheater, formed by mountains and
bay, makes Santa Cruz the keystone
county of the State, and its beautiful capi-
tai is as picturesque as painters dream.
A study of conditions as they confront
one to-day is encouraging, the prospects
of municipal growth being good. num-
ber OF improvements designed to increase
the city's importance are already outlined
and are likely to go forth without inter-
ruption.
Shipping and railway facilities are very
great, and local manufactures are exported
annually in large quantities. When it is
considered that Santa Cruz and it's suburbs
contain population of more than 10 600
1t is wonderful to contemplate the output
of its many manufacturing industries and
the number of families that gain SUBJ
sistence therefrom.
There are powder works, tanneries,
great rock quarries, lime kilns and like
enterprises in or near the beautiful city by
the bay. There are large annual exports
of bitumen, lumber and beet sugar, the
latter from the great Watsonville factory.
There is ample clay for pottery, glue for
commercial export, and large export of
soap every year, while the paper-mills of
Sequel are famous for their product. At
the California Powder Works they can
make 1000 kegs of explosives every day,
while the possibilities of the wave motor
at Capitoia have already attracted the at
tention of the world.
The viticultural and agricultural ex.
ports are famous for their quality, and
some of the wines made in the mountain
vineyards have given the county repu-
tation even bey ond the United States.
All of these manufactures and great
crops would be next to useless were it not
for the fact that Santa Cruz has unsur-
passed facilities for shipping them TO the
large markets of the world. Being but
eighty miles from San Francisco. 1t is
only q few hours from the ccunty's rich
fields and quarries to the ships OF the
Pacific, not to speak of those that come to
the harbnr of Santa Cruz.
There are many industries fourishing
In the country contiguous to the. city.
The tanneries in the outlying districts
produce the best leather made in the
state, the great sawmilis cut lumber for
use as far away as the gold mines of
Africa, tho orchards ship the best apples
that grow in the Golden West while the
vineyards grow wines now becoming
famous wherever good wines are drunk.
A fact that is to be of great Importance
is that the bay here abounds in many
varieties of fishes useful in commerce, the
salmon fisheries being famous. There are
rockcod, green and spotted trout. perch,
many varieties of mackerel and sea bass,
bluefsh and jewish. smelt, rainbow and