The San Francisco call., 1905-02-20
NEW INDUSTRIES
FOR The VALLEY
Interiors Vast Resources
in Raw Materials Give
Hope to Many Counties
ASSOCIATION REPORTS
Campaign to Create Plants
for Utilizing Materials
Has Official Sanction

Secretary Beard OF the Sacramento
Development Association reports that
the immediate purpose OF his assseisz
ton is TO assist In the creation or new
industrial enterprises In the saora-
mento Valley. The associations sKeeu-
tive committee has considered the mat
ter carefully and has prepared n dsela-
ration of general interest In many
counties. In, part this is as follows.
Almost every product OF the valley s eapa-
bic of manufacture at the point Of
production. Extensive manufacture OF nour II
now prevented by the necessity OF importing
wheats of high gluten content. When the ex-
periments under way have developed n
good milling wheat the manufacture OF -four
on a much larger SCALE may add to the pros
perity of the region In similar way the
success of Indian corn culture may develop
manufacturing possibilities
Among the most common articles manufac-
tured from wheat and corn starch, mac
aroni. glucose, -four and meal Potatoes are
made into starch and various other products
OF the farm and garden are manufactured into
articles OF everyday use but few OF the facto-
ries are located in the valley.
few years ago it discovered that
prussic acid may be extracted from apricot
pits. The pits are now saved, but shipped
elsewhere for manufacture
Hemp has been produced with great success,
but the extension of hemp culture is retarded
by the necessity OF sending the fiber East for
manufacture Flax is grown successfully and
prohtably, but only the seed Is saved. owing
to the fact that there is market here for
the fiber. Tests have been made with cotton
that seem to demonstrate the suitability of eli
mate and soil for this plant. There is every
reason to believe the production and manufac-
ture of hemp. fax and cotton may be intro
duced successfully and proitably.
Among the most promising Of industrial op
portunities are those afforded by the deposits
of many minerals. including building stone,
lir11p mi ant md nphr Theda
deposits are capable Of sustaining giant enter
prises, the existence of which will cheaper
building operations, employ thousands of peo-
pie, provide home market for the products
of orchard and garden and handsome dividends
to those who establish the enterprises. OPP
portunities for profit to investors and COM
munity alike exist in many deposits of iron,
asbestos. gold. silver and copper.
The forests provide a wealth of manufactur-
ing opportunities. Heretofore numbering op-
erations have been confined to the production
OF rough lumber, sash, doors, molding and
building material of larger kinds. With the
erection of the Diamond Match Company's s
plant at Chico the era of manufacture of
smaller wood products will be inaugurated.
The plant introduction garden of the United
States Department of Agriculture, located at
Chico is experimenting with rush which
may prove suitable for manufacture into car
pet mating Many roots have been planted
at the Chico garden and a careful effort will
be made to determine the possibilities OF the
plant for mating manufacture.
There are immense possibilities OF indus
trial growth in the successful culture of this
plant. concern which manufactures
mating in Maine from grass imported from
Japan has signified a desire to construct
looms for the purpose of manufacturing mat
ting from the plant found growing wild in the
Sutter Basin of the Sacramento Valley. All
the mating used IN the United States Is Inn
ported or is manufactured from imported ma
terials Millions of yards of carpet mating
are used annually. 1t is cheap floor covering
rapidly growing in popularity.
The growing Of this grass must result In
the building in the valley of great mating
manufacturing industry. The logical place for
establishing these factories is near the point
of production and therefore Sacramento Valley
factories will certainly follow the success Of
the experiments now being carried on at
Chico.