PROMOTION PARAGRAPHS 



PRELIMINARY steps have been taken to establish a country club at 

 Palms, near Los Angeles, at an outlay of $500,000. 

 The total outlay for five business structures, facing both sides 

 of Sutter Street, San Francisco, in the one block between Grant 

 Avenue and Kearny Street, will amount to nearly two millions of 

 dollars. Every structure has been leased for twenty years, and the con- 

 tracts for every one of the buildings have been let within the past thirty 

 days. The business houses who have taken the leases constitute the 

 leading firms In their lines of business in San Francisco. These new build- 

 ings will all be^ class A structures, while those which occupied the ground 

 before the big fire were class C. 



Highlands, in San Bernardino County, has shipped thirteen hundred 

 cars of citrus fruits this season. 



The preliminary work is now in progress toward reclaiming 22,000 

 acres of rich bottom land near Marysville. 



Statistics based on the directories of three transbay cities give popula- 

 tions as follows: Oakland, 210,345; Berkeley, 46,665; Alameda, 33,974. 



The Tulare County ranchers are reaping the heaviest hay crop in 

 many years. 



Many new settlers are coming into Stanislaus County, and surveyors 

 are plotting a new town, at Claus, near Modesto. 



In the Greenwater mining district, Inyo County, there was one hoist 

 in operation nine months ago. Now there are twenty hoists being put in, 

 and many more are contemplated. 



Fruit-canneries and packing-houses throughout the State are short 

 of help. Several thousand women and girls could find immediate em- 

 ployment. 



The prune-growers in the vicinity of Visalia are selling the crop on a 

 three-cent basis, as against two and a quarter cents last year. 



Notwithstanding the fact that Sutter County felt the effects of the 

 heavy spring flood, the indications are that it will have a record crop of 

 peaches, prunes, and grapes. 



A big brick and tile factory at Eckley, in Contra Costa County, is 

 nearing completion. It will have a capacity of 200,000 bricks daily. 



Steps are being taken to open up for settlement 14,000 acres of fertile 

 land in the Yucaipe Valley, near Redlands. 



Work is now being pushed on the new cement plant at San Juan, 

 in San Benito County. A spur track will be laid, and sixteen cars of 

 material are already on the ground. 



The new power-station at Volta, in Tehama County, is now com- 

 plete, with a water-pressure of 640 pounds to the square inch. 



The Women's Improvement Club of Modesto is improving twenty acres 

 of park land in that city. The proceeds of the fiesta will be devoted to 

 the same purpose. 



Last season more than eleven hundred cars of grapes were shipped 

 from Lodi, and all signs point to a largely increased crop this year. 



The reconstruction of the Spring Valley Building, in San Francisco, is 

 now under way, and there are 160 tons of structural steel on the ground. 



The August Number of For California 



Will be devoted entirely to fishing and the fisheries of California. Articles 

 by experienced writers will be contributed on the game fishes of ocean, 

 lake, and stream. The economic aspects of the fisheries of California will 

 also be dealt with, and Dr. David Starr Jordan will have an article on the 

 varieties of trout to be found in the streams of the State. 



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