PROMOTION PARAGRAPHS 



CONSTRUCTION work has commenced on the new railroad to con- 

 nect the San Joaquin Valley with the ocean at the Bay of Monterey. 

 The road is expected to be In operation by October first, between 

 Monterey and Hollister. 



A big fruit-drying plant, occupying twenty acres, is in course of 

 construction at Chico. It will have a capacity for handling 1,000,000 

 pounds of fruit each season. 



Another big electric-power plant has just been completed in Shasta 

 County, and still another is under way. These two plants will add 13,000 

 horse-power to that already utilized in this county. 



Sunnyvale, in Santa Clara County, reports large new enterprises. A 

 hydrocarbon works is under construction, at a cost of $40,000, and a well- 

 known packing company is erecting two immense buildings. 



The price of lumber Is falling materially in California, and indications 

 are for a further drop in prices. This is due to a large extent to the fact 

 that there is a marked diminution in the building of cheap structures in 

 San Francisco. 



The building industry is active in Roseville, Placer County. The work 

 includes extensive construction on the new railroad yards, features of which 

 are a large machine-shop, a roundhouse, and a 350,000-gallon tank. A 

 bridge and a large planing-mill are also going up. 



The largest lemon growers' association in the world, at San Dimas, 

 has just purchased a tract of land for the erection of big packing-houses. 



Work is being rushed on the four big smelter furnaces at Coram, in 

 Shasta County, and this town promises to soon become one of the most 

 active in the copper belt. 



Work is in progress in Stockton on an auxiliary electric plant, to cost 

 $250,000. Nearly all the machinery is already on the ground. 



During the past season there have been shipped from the Santa Ana 

 District 1,067,456 pounds of walnuts, for which the shippers received 

 $108,083.31. 



An important water development has been made in the Riverside Dis- 

 trict by striking a heavy underground flow. This additional supply will 

 render available large tracts of new land. 



One hundred teams are rushing work on the new electric line from 

 Stockton to Lodi. The road is expected to be in operation in six weeks. 



Redlands has forwarded 1,800 carloads of oranges during the present 

 season. 



The big mill now nearing completion at Weed, in Siskiyou County, 

 will have a capacity of 1 ,000 doors and 200 sash every twenty-four hours. 



Corcoran, in Kings County, is the center of one of the important beet- 

 growing districts of the State. The planters of that vicinity are now put- 

 ting in a thousand acres of beets. 



Articles of incorporation of the Sonoma and Lakeport Electric Railroad 

 have been filed, the line to run from a point on the Northwestern Pacific, 

 in Sonoma County, to Lakeport, in Lake County. This line will be the 

 shortest route into Lake County, the road being about twenty-seven miles 

 long. 



The Federal Government is pushing its big reclamation project in the 

 Klamath country, which calls for the Irrigation of 250,000 acres of land. 

 The first unit of 9,000 acres is now completed. 



A new oil pipe-line, in the vicinity of Bakersfield, opening up the Midway 

 and McKittrick districts, has been commenced. The line will be sixty- 

 eight miles in length. 



A large irrigation project is under way in Glenn County, comprising 

 two main canals and a system of laterals, to serve many square miles of 

 agricultural lands. 



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