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COAST CITY CLAIMS SECOND PLACE
 IN SIZE
Oakland Makes Rapid Prog ress Toward Lead of
 Coast Towns

OAKLAND, Cal, December 9.--By two practically unanimous elections held on two consecutive days, bringing out a vote almost equal to the last presi dential vote. Oakland. California, has just given itself a boost toward the topnotch place among Pacific coast cit. ies.
 The first election, held on Monday, November l5, was to authorize a bond issue for number of municipal i'm. provements, including $2,503,000 for work in extending the dock and wharf facilities of the city.
 On the very next day an annexati3I proposition, taking in several subur- ban communities into the city govern, ment, was also carried by a practically unanimous vote.
 Oakland, which is now the second largest city on the Pacific coast, has an area of 6l square miles, and a popula. tion which is eonservatively estimated at 300,000. The assessed valuation of the. property in the new city limits is now $le5,934,476. With the several miles of water frontage added by the annexation, Oakland now has nHenty- seven miles of frontage along the Bay of San Francisco.
 This water frontage is soon to be the center of great deal of activity, as the plans laid out by the engineers in charge of the work call for an ex- penditure of over $20,000,000. The bond election of Monday, November l5, makes $2,503,000 of this money immed, iately available for preliminary work When the plans are fully carried out Oakland will have harbor equal to odds the safest haTbor on the Pacific coast.
 Oakland is on the continental side of the Bay of San Francisco and is the logical location for all industrial plants which are to share in the tremendous and growing Pacific coast business. It is now the land terminus of the trans continental lines of the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific railroads as well as of the newly completed Western Pacific railroad.
 On the very day of the successful annexation election, the Bankers Hotel company of Oakland closed a contract for the erection of $2,O00,000 hotel building, which is expected to attract to Oakland a great many tourists who have hitherto preferred southern Cali fornia resorts Oakland enjoys year round climate which government ex- perts declare to be the most equable in all California. With increased hotel facilities there will doubtless be thou sands of eastern visitors making the new metropolis as their vacation head. quarters Another magnificent hotel, "The Chremont ' is in course of com pletiOn, which together with the present hotel facilities of the city will put # in frst-class trim for tourists.
 Oakland can be looked to by cities all over the country as a striking ex- ample of what the "get together spirit can accomplish. All the diverse elements of the city's population for. get all differences when any project for the good of the town is under discus sion. As a result, any project for mu- nicipal improvement always gets unani- nous support.
 With many millions to be spent for public and private buildings and with all hneS or DuslneSs very good, oak' land should have period of splendid progress and its population will be greatly increased during the next few years.
 An example of the progressive spirit of this city is shown in the unique ad- vertisement which the chamber of com merce will run in the December II is. sue of the Saturday Evening Post. They have taken a double page to tell of tine attractions of their city. This is prob ably the most elaborate paid advertise. ment of a city that has ever appeared in any publication.