Evening star., 1911-06-11
Civic Pride
of the People.

system tnat Will De unsurpassed. UP TO
date the work has cost individual prop
erty owners approximately $1,000 600.
About 100000 has recently been spent
on the Improvement OF streets in the
wholesale district, which have been
paved with basalt blocks.
/ "Over thirty miles of macadam streets
have been laid, and about fifteen miles of
asphaltum and bitumen. In addition to
this the city has about twenty-five miles
Of gravel streets. On the two principal
business streets, and X, skyscrapers
are rising. The one and two story busi-
ness blocks, which gave this city some
what the appearance of an old Mexican
town, are rapidly disappearing and build
ings Of from four to eight stories are be-
ing erected. A new standard of civic
pride is also being displayed In the con-
struction Of new courthouse to cost
$75O.0OO. In the issue Of $75O.OOO of new
school bonds. in the erection of q new
high school which will cost 100000, in
sewer improvements costing 500. and
In the erection and improving of levees,
costing 100000. So rapidly has Sacra-
mentO grown that several of its resi-
Dental suburbs have become physically
annexed to the city. These suburbs con-
tain approximately 10000 people. and the
movement to have them legally annexed,
which will bring the city's population up
to between $500 and 10000 people.
"One of the reasons of Sacramento s
prosperity, and perhaps the greatest. is
the Sacramento river. which is recently
taking an added Importance. OF approx
imately 100000 tons Of products raised
in the valley between 10000 and 100000
tons are now transported on the river.
Between Sacramento and San Francisco
some Of the finest river boats to be found
anywhere are rapidly increasing their
business.
The Capital City, the latest acquisition
to the fleet Of passenger steamers, is not
any river steamer In the east When the
people of Sacramento shall have become
fully alive to the possibilities of the Sac
ramento river the Netherlands trip as
the voyage between the bay and Sacra-
mento Is known. will become one of the
most famous river trips In the world
The activity of eastern capital in Sac
ramentO and In the Sacramento valley is
fully matched by the activity of the To-
cal people, continued the enthusiastic
Mr.. Andrus. Within the past few
weeks the Sacramento Electric, Gas and
Railway Company has announced the es-
tablishment OF q power plant here which
shall be. second to none on the Pacific
coast. The Northern Electric an inter-
urban line tapping the Sacramento valley
for over 13O miles to the north, is prepar-
ing to gridiron the valley with new lines.
The Central California Traction Company.
which is the line to Stockton, is about to
enter the local field and compete with the
present city street railway system. The
sacramento and Sierra Electric railway
is being built from the city to the sum-
mer resorts in the Lake Tahoe region, and
the Vallejo and Northern Electric line is
about to build line with view to enter
Ing into competition with the steam rail-
ways Tor business between Sacramento
and San Francisco.
1T can readily be seen, therefore, that
Sacramento is big with opportunity and
that it is destined to become. with one
exception. the greatest transferring point
in California, IL not the greatest, with
this same exception, on the Pacific coast "
WILLIAM E. CURTIS,