OPPORTUNITIES FOR MANUFACTORIES. 



The Merchants' Exchange of Oakland will be pleased to furnish more 

 detailed information as to location and prices to all those intending to estab- 

 lish factories in the vicinity of our city. 



WILBUR WALKER, 



Secretary of the Merchants' Exchange. 



PETALUMA. 



You may well say to the world, "Keep your eyes on Petaluma for a 

 manufacturing center" — thirty-seven miles north of San Francisco at the 

 head of tidewater navigation, as well as steam and electric railway facilities, 

 which will always insure cheap transportation to San Francisco and the 

 markets of the world. 



Our city believes in acquiring and setting aside for factory purposes 

 suitable land and locations for new manufacturing establishments, whereby 

 any worthy concern can come to Petaluma and get a suitable site free and 

 in many cases a building erected for their use, suitable for their needs, and 

 in many ways the city has made and is now ready and willing to encourage 

 new industries to locate here. An honest investigation of the merits of 

 Petaluma for a manufacturing and shipping location almost invariably 

 results in a location at Petaluma. 



Freight is shipped between Petaluma and San Francisco in quantities 

 at from 60 cents to $1 per ton, and small packages, such as cases of thirty- 

 six dozen eggs, are shipped from Petaluma to San Francisco at 10 cents 

 per case and the empty case returned free — in fact, much cheaper than to 

 take a package from Front street in San Francisco and deliver it to any other 

 address in San Francisco. 



We already have a nice list and line of factories in successful operation 

 and employing many hundreds of hands. Among them are a silk mill, shoe 

 factory, feed and flour mills, three incubator factories, saddle tree factories, 

 three tanneries, planing mills, creameries, ice and cold storage plant, foun- 

 dry and machine shops and four cigar factories, nearly all of which have 

 grown up from a small beginning at Petaluma to their present strong finan- 

 cial standing and capacity, which prove that the conditions here are favor- 

 able to a profitable and increasing business. 



Electric power in abundance can be had cheap — 10 cents per 1000 

 watts — as well as an abundant supply of pure water. 



Cheap homes can be purchased on very easy terms. Living is much 

 cheaper and rents lower than in the larger cities. The educational, fraternal 

 and social conditions at Petaluma are all that can be desired and such as 

 to insure a contented, happy and prosperous home life. Our high school is 

 on the accredited list with the Universities. Our intermediate school grades 

 and facilities are equal to any in the State. A new Carnegie Library is 

 about ready to install our 1 0,000 volumes of selected books. A new $40,000 

 theater insures a fine place of amusement to theater-loving people. Eleven 

 churches; fine paved streets and cement sidewalks and cheap homes, in a 

 progressive, rapidly growing community with prosperous business condi- 

 tions; five banks in successful operation, with total assets of over $3,000,000 

 and only about 5000 population within the city limits of one and one-half 

 miles square, speaks well for the financial and contented condition of 

 Petaluma and her citizens. Outside the city limits, on five and ten acre 

 tracts, within a radius of eight miles of Petaluma, are another 5000 popula- 

 tion making their money and living on poultry, fruits and products of the 

 soil, all contented and prosperous and assured a ready cash market daily 

 for all their produce. Farther back from the city are the larger ranches 

 of dairies, sheep and cattle, olives, vineyards and hops, redwoods and tan 

 bark. Potatoes, wheat, corn, oats, barley, hay, sugar beets, apples, prunes 

 and all known varieties of fruits, nuts and berries are raised here to per- 

 fection. One of the most productive and prosperous counties in the State, 

 which abounds in raw material, products of her soil and gifts of nature, 



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