BULLETIN OF PROGRESS 



PUBLISHED BY 



[The California Promotion Committee 



JANUARY 31, 1907 



HE first month in the new year has been one of progress in 



California and reports received by THE CALIFORNIA 



PROMOTION COMMITTEE show that all parts of the 



State are feeling the inliuence of improved conditions. 



ere is continued shortage of laborers in many lines, all over the 



te, and this is especially noticeable in ordinary laborers in the 



rabering industry, and in female help as operatives in mills and 



'aetories. Store help, telephone operators and domestics are in 



normous demand. Office men, clerks and bookkeepers are called 



r in all parts of California. 



Conditions in San Francisco, so far as building operations 

 d commerce are concerned, are eminently satisfactory. More 

 an $39,000,000 expenditure is called for by the 7,734 building 

 rmits that have been issued since the fire. It is estimated by 

 rchitects and contractors that fully $100,000,000 will be expended 

 h buildings during the coming year. One hundred and fifty build- 

 ngs are now being erected or have been completed and occupied 

 tince the fire that are between five and twenty-two stories in height, 

 md the total number of permanent buildings erected or in course of 

 sonstruction is more than seven thousand. 



California's hop and raisin crops have been exhausted at 

 the largest prices paid in many years, and it is estimated that the 

 range crop will amount to thirty thousand car loads, which bring 

 |op prices in the Eastern market. 



The following summary shows San Francisco 's condition : 



January building permits issued, 787. Value, $6,822,000. 



Total building permits since the fire, 7,734. Value, $39,621,865. 



January permits for permanent buildings, 540. 



Total permits for permanent buildings since the fire, 3,629. 



January real estate transfers, 770, Value, $4,000,000. 



January postal receipts, $149,392.69. 



January customs receipts, $752,253.31. Jan., '06, $606,734.02. 



Jan. bank clearings, $199,352,126.14. Jan., '06, $180,177,198.67. 



Los Angeles bank clearings, $55,746,930.24. Same, 1906, 



$41,641,388.25. 

 Oakland bank clearings, $15,279,703.73. 

 San Jose bank clearings, $3,387,844.88. 



RELIABLE INFORMATION GIVEN ON ALL PARTS OF 

 CALIFORNIA ON APPLICATION. 



6a4-R C M— 1-31-07 — C.E. XX. 



