PROMOTION PARAGRAPHS 



THE railroad to Yosemite Valley is nearing completion, and fifteen 

 hundred men are rushing the work. It is expected that traffic will 

 be opened by the beginning of May. 

 Near Los Bancs, in Merced County, one of the largest dairying 

 tracts in California is being divided into ten-, twenty-, and forty-acre 

 farms. 



San Diego recently voted bonds to the amount of $795,000 for city 

 improvements. 



In Glenn County the subdivision of large holdings into ten-, twenty-, 

 and forty-acre tracts has created a very active market. Nine hundred and 

 eighty acres recently changed hands within a period of ten days. 



From the newly developed diamond mine near Oroville a number of 

 black diamonds, known as carbonate, and having a market value of 

 eighty-five dollars a carat, have been forwarded to the State Mineralogist. 



One hundred thousand additional fruit trees have been planted in 

 Tehama County during the present season, most of them being peach trees. 



Steps are being taken to double the output of the match industry in 

 Butte County, and machinery is on the way which will add six hundred 

 horse-power to the plants now in operation. 



During the past ten years the annual shipments of California oranges 

 have increased from 7,000 carloads to nearly 32,000. The latter represents 

 a net return to the producers of $11,000,000, exclusive of a sum nearly as 

 great disbursed for labor and freight. 



According to estimates from the new directory, Los Angeles now has 

 a population of 260,000. 



Great preparations are being made in Los Angeles toward the entertain- 

 ment of the convention of Mystic Shriners in May and the National Educa- 

 tional Association in July. 



Twelve hundred acres of the finest soil in Glenn County has just 

 changed hands, the purpose of the purchase being to divide the tract into 

 small farms which will appeal to settlers of limited means. 



Contracts have been let for the construction of three large buildings 

 of a new fruit-canning factory at Sunnyvale. It will employ eight hundred 

 hands and will be ready for operation early in May. 



The authorities at Stockton have taken the initial steps toward the 

 formation of a drainage district, under the laws of the State. It will include 

 taxable property of about $25,000,000. 



On April 1st the San Francisco supervisors passed an ordinance exempt- 

 ing Class A buildings from the height limitation, which henceforth applies 

 only to classes B and C and frame structures. 



The large wheat ranches of Santa Barbara County are disappearing 

 before the advance of intensive farming. Sugar beets, barley, and oats are 

 among the favorite crops. 



Santa Maria reports largely increased oil shipments. Six hundred 

 thousand barrels left Port Harford during the month of March. 



In the beet sugar region around Chico many hundred acres are now in 

 seed, much of this territory being in small holdings. 



For several months past the building permits for the City of Oakland 

 have represented an average outlay of over $200,000 a week. It is conceded 

 that the actual cost exceeds these figures. 



Reports from Shasta County show that the orchard fruits in that 

 section of the State have not suffered in the late storms, and a crop as large 

 or larger than that of last year is predicted. The peach crop particularly 

 has set very heavy. 



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