![]() Its rail and river transportation facilities, nearness to the mountain range, contiguity to the great foothill region, centrality of location, and climatic desirability, all conspire to make it the most prominent fruit forwarding post of the State. Sacramento is the chief fruit shipping station of the State, sending forward in season far more fruit that any other point, and generally as much as most others combined. The jobbing trade of Sacramento aggregates about sixty million dollars annually, and extends throughout all the Central and northern and mountain sections, and the adjacent States and Territories. There are many factors in the industry of the city. The Railroad Hospital, High School, Masonic Hall, Free Library, chief hotels, State Printing Office, Old Ladies Home, and several business structures are buildings that attract attention and are a source of local pride, The Central Pacific Railroads shops in this city are the largest mechanical works upon the coast, and give employment to two thousand skilled and unskilled workmen. The Catholic Cathedral, Agricultural Pavilion, Odd Fellows' Temple, Sacramento and Capital Grammar Schools, Courthouse and Hall of Records are among the notably large and fine structures. The State capitol, situated in the heart of the city, is a classical structure, erected at a cost of upwards of three millions of dollars. Crocker, and valued, with its collection of oil paintings, at about six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. ![]() Crocker Art Gallery, a superb building presented to the city by Mrs. One of these, the Sacramento School of Design, occupies the E. ![]() There is maintained the best equipped school system, supplemented by several private educational institutions. They represent nearly all denominations, and the church edifices are nearly all fine, and some are very imposing structures. Sacramento is liberally endowed with churches. By navigation of the Sacramento river, the city has trade relations with the entire tier if river counties. Feeder to the great Central lines connect Sacramento with the leading counties of the State both coast and interior. The Sacramento Valley and Placerville line leads from the capital city to the El Dorado Sierras. The California and Oregon Railroad leads hence to and through Oregon, the Central Pacific east to the transmontane regions, the California Pacific on the west side of the Sacramento river connects the city with San Francisco and its upper suburban towns and cities the Western Pacific connects it with the San Joaquin valley, the Southern Pacific leading to the Gulf of Mexico, and by continuation from Lathrop makes a second connection with San Francisco, and by branch lines with the Santa Clara valley. The city is admirably related by railroads to the trade and transportation interests if the coast. ![]() In its homes, Sacramentans take pardonable pride, since, for beauty of surrounding, floral wealth and choice foliage, their equals are few. Its streets are broad, heavily shaded, and afford admirable drives. Fully two-thirds if this is compactly built. Its municipal area is in excess of four square miles. SACRAMENTO, the capital city of California, is situated at the confluence of the American and Sacramento rivers, ninety miles easterly from San Francisco, eighteen miles westerly from the lower foothills of the Sierra range, and nearly in the center of the State and for a political seat could not be better located. The following booster statement was included on the map: It was incorporated into a city in 1850, and later became the state's capital in 1854. This beautiful map provides a look back to the early beginnings of the city, and includes insets of the towns early structures. ![]() The city of Sacramento was founded in 1848 on the Pacific coast, and quickly grew due to the California Gold Rush. ![]()
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