OPPORTUNITIES FOR MANUFACTORIES. 



We believe that many other articles could be manufactured here where 

 the raw material could be brought in. 



Our power would be both electric and water. We have three large elec- 

 tric plants in this county and have numerous natural water power facilities. 



J. H. WILLS, 



Secretary Placer County Improvement Association. 



CONTRA COSTA COUNTY. 



Victor H. Metcalf, Secretary of Commerce and Labor, said in a recent 

 speech that Government statistics showed that Contra Costa County stood 

 second of all the counties in California in the value of its manufactured 

 products. San Francisco, with its 400,000 inhabitants, heads the list, and 

 then comes little Contra Costa County with its manufactures, turning out 

 last year $36,000,000 worth of goods to be distributed to the world by our 

 incomparable transportation facilities. 



The works now in construction and in process of construction should 

 double this in the next five years. 



What has caused this influx of money and enterprise in so few years, 

 and without any unusual advertising or booming of this county? 



One reason is that we have seventy miles of deep water frontage and 

 every mile of it is good safe harbor in any and all kinds of weather, a natural 

 advantage that cannot be duplicated in California. Vessels from Japan, 

 China, Australia and the islands sail to our very doors. The building of the 

 Panama Canal will bring us 9000 miles nearer the markets of the Atlantic 

 seaboard. When all these markets are fully opened up^t will make Contra 

 Costa County one of the richest and greatest manufacturing centers of the 

 country. To make this location still more desirable, two overland railroads — 

 the Southern Pacific and theSantaFe — have built their roads along the shore 

 line nearly side by side. These roads put us in quick and cheap communi- 

 cation with all parts of the West and the East, while our ocean transporta- 

 tion connects us with the rest of the world. Any ship that can pass the 

 Golden Gate can sail to the wharves of Contra Costa County. 



So the raw material and the finished product are loaded either on ocean- 

 going vessels or the railroads at the factory doors, and the cost of transpor- 

 tation is reduced to the lowest figure. 



We have a pipe line from the Kern County oil fields to our water front, 

 furnishing the cheapest fuel to be found in the country. Besides, we have 

 electricity from a power line, brought from the mountains, furnishing power 

 for lighting and mechanical purposes at cheap rates and in any amount 

 required. 



We did not have all these inducements to offer the enterprising men 

 with money and ambition when they first commenced to build their wharves 

 and warehouses and factories in this county, but we had one advantage 

 that nature provided and that nature alone can duplicate, and that is our 

 magnificent harbor frontage. 



D. J. WEST, 



Martinez, California. 



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