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advancing. One hundred dollars a ton has been offered for apricots on 

 the trees. The farmers in Santa Clara Valley will receive the top-notch 

 price this year on their fruit. 



Lively prospects for the building industry in and around Modesto, in 

 Stanislaus County, have induced the erection of a brick-making plant, 

 utilizing oil-burning machinery, which will be started up at once. 



Fresno raisins are selling ipor six cents, a very high price, and many 

 growers are holding out for seven. The Fresno crop will be very large this 

 fall, and the demand in the East is unprecedented. 



Reports are being received from all the agricultural sections, indicating 

 a scarcity of farm help of all grades, including foremen and experienced 

 hands, common laborers, and women and children. In the Sacramento 

 Valley the record wage of $2.50 a day, with keep, is being offered. 



Since April, 1906, nearly five hundred building permits have been 

 issued in Santa Rosa, involving an expenditure of considerably over a 

 million and a half of dollars. This amount includes $315,000 for a new 

 courthouse. Exclusive of this the government has appropriated $70,000 

 for a post-office building. 



Los Angeles is already reaping benefit from voting $23,000,000 bonds 

 to bring water from Owens River. Eastern people look upon it as evidence 

 that the people there have confidence in themselves and it begets similar 

 confidence in the East. 



THE SEPTEMBER NUMBER 



.OF. 



FOR CALIFORNIA 



.WILL BE. 



DEVOTED TO THE RIVERS 

 AND HARBORS OF THE STATE 



The contributors have given special study to Transportation 



Facilities by Water in California, and this sjnnposium 



will be an effective summing up of the 



State's facilities in this respect 



