Opportunities for Manufactories 



AS PRESENTED BY A NUMBER OF COMMUNITIES. 



j^P HROUGH the following the reader will be enabled to get a 

 definite idea of the character of some of the opportunities for 

 manufactories in California. Space will not permit all such 

 opportunities to be set forth in a single issue of FOR CALIFOR- 

 NIA. Many other localities are set forth in the Opportunities 

 Number of FOR CALIFORNIA, those here given not generally 

 being included in that number. 



UKIAH, MENDOCINO COUNTY. 



Relative to inquiry concerning possibilities for manufacturing, first 

 there are several inexhaustible beds of fine clay, constituting the very best 

 material for pottery works and all of the modern building bricks and terra 

 cotta articles. 



Second. Factories for tan bark extract, the strength of the tan bark 

 put into fluid shape and shipped in casks or barrels, anywhere along the 

 coast of the county and in the timber belt, the home of the tan oak tree. 



Third. Tanneries, as the tan bark is close by; or shipbuilding along the 

 coast at the points where the large mills are situated. 



Fourth. Box and chair factories near the mills, and where railroads 

 are adjacent to the timber. 



This valley and Potter Valley, eighteen miles north, should be a fav- 

 ored place for all manufacturing required to be done with complex ma- 

 chinery and needing continuous power, such as shoes, silks and the like, 

 since a power plant is being installed by the Eel River Power and Irrigation 

 Company, which contemplates taking the water from Eel River by tunneling 

 through the mountain about a mile, drawing the water from the river and 

 letting it fall about four hundred feet into Potter Valley, giving an unlimited 

 electric power for light and power purposes and irrigation. Work is well 

 under way. 



J. c. RUDDOCK, 



President Board of Trade. 



OAKLAND. 



Your letter addressed to the Merchants' Exchange of Oakland regard- 

 ing manufacturing in California was considered at the meeting of the Direc- 

 tors last evening, and the Secretary was instructed to reply thereto, which 

 I do with pleasure. 



The organization of which I have the honor to be Secretary considers 

 that the City of Oakland and immediate vicinities offer some of the best 

 locations for manufacturing purposes in the State of California. At the 

 present time there is a large area of unoccupied land fronting directly on 

 Oakland Harbor which can be obtained at very reasonable prices considering 

 its nearness to San Francisco, the Metropolis of the Pacific Coast. 



As you are well aware, Oakland Harbor is being improved by the United 

 States Government and the most available sites for manufacturing are being 

 rapidly secured by factories of different kinds. 



An association of Eastern capitalists at the present time is engaged 

 in the construction of a large plant for manufacturing purposes. The Cali- 

 fornia Cotton Mills, the California Flax Mills, the Pacific Steel and Wire 

 Company and the many other manufacturing enterprises are now in suc- 

 cessful operation, and it is only a question of a short time when the best of 

 the manufacturing sites on Oakland Harbor will have been secured for 

 factories. 



The population of Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley is constantly in- 

 creasing. We feel that the City of Oakland at the present time is the City 

 of Opportunity in all lines of manufacturing. 



