The San Francisco call., 1913-08-23
Traffic Expert Declares Rush Greatest Since
Days of Oklahoma Opening

raised on this piece of land Third.
that it is close to the door of the great
Francisco, Oakland the orient. South
America and the Atlantic seaboard are
open to it.
There is no proposition have ever
seen that presents such great transpor-
tation facilities. There will never be
crop. raised here that can not reach
the market 1t has steam railroad,
electric railroad and boat transporta- :
ton. and plenty of it. 1t has one of
the largest railroad corporations in the
world alongside of it, and more trans
There are also other lines knocking at
the door of this project Also that 1t
Is not out of the way somewhere. 1T
is only two hours from two of the
greatest metropoli of the Pacific coast
Oakland and San Francisco. If any
of these people sigh for the mountains.
or for fishing. in two hours they may
reach a point anywhere from 1000 feet
up, including Lake Tahoe and the
Fea ther River canyon"
r. w. Kellogg of Pasadena, who ne
gotiated the sale of The Call to M. III.
de Young had been over the Solano
project in June. On that trip, he said,
he had hardly realized the Importance
to San Francisco of the development of
the full tract OF 100, 900 acres He was
impressed with the magnitude of the
irrigation system and the great volume
of water for irrigation and transporta-
ton purposes
WEALTH ADDED BY MILLIONS
The project" he said. means the ad :
dition OF $25.000.000 to the wealth of
California, really tributary to San Fran
cisco and San Francisco business mon
should be looking out for the business
that is bound to come from that farm
development. 1t is fully as great as
| the development of the Imperial valley.
where bare land is now selling for from
$500 TO $500 an acre. The soil of the
Imperial is Colorado river silt; that of
Solano is Sacramento river silt. What
irrigation has done for the one II will
do for the other The lands at Solano
are selling for one-fourth the price of
geles and the Solano water supply is 10
times Is great
There is absolutely no question In
my mind that Solano will be city
OF 5000 inhabitants In one year and of
10000 In 10 years. I believe this esti-
mate very conservative because of the
natural location for city which would
have been located there long ago If this
vast tract had been irrigated
Mr. Kellogg expressed himself enthu-
siastically regarding the plans of the
Oakland, Antioch and Eastern for a
through service between Sacramento
and San Francisco. This electric
service means enormous profits for in
vestors in Solano property and it means
great deal for San Francisco, Oak
land and Sacramento.
PERSONNEL OF GUEST PARTY
The private car of the Oakland and
Antioch directors, upon which buffet
luncheon was served, carried the fol-
lowing guests of A. J. Rich & Co.: Mr.
and~Mrs. A. w. Foster. Richard e. Null
cahy, Lansing Miner, Miss Martha
Foster a.. w. Foster Jr., Spencer Grant,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. z. Keuchler, f. w
Kellogg, Miss Ethel Gregg Miss Dor
ofhy Mann, Mrs. A. c. Parsons, Roy
Ryone. Mr.. and Mrs S. L. Napthaly,
Walter Arnstein. Benjamin c. May
nard. Dalton Mann, E. L. Lomax,
Charles S. Fee and Thornwell Mutually.
The comfort and pleasure OF the
guests were looked after by David
Rich. A. j. Rich and A. C. Blumenthal.