the submission of measures for public approval. There are twelve departments of the Superior Court, five Justices Courts, and four Police Courts. The Board of Supervisors has eighteen members. The Board of Education has four members. The Board of Public Works controls the streets, sewers and public improvements of the city, and is composed of engineers of recognized standing. The water supply is excellent, being furnished by a private corporation, the Spring Valley Water Company.

for

The development of crude petroleum has brought to Cheap Fuel San Francisco cheap fuel and power for the development Manufactures. of manufactures, thus giving all lines of manufactures a tremendous stimulus until to-day, throughout the city and suburbs, as well as throughout the State, are growing up many prosperous manufacturing industries. In 1901, California produced 7,710,315 barrels of crude petroleum, and in 1902 13,693,514 barrels, producing it at a price equivalent to coal, at three and four dollars a ton, and those who know say that this supply can readily be doubled.

Expert electricians tell of the tremendous power possible through the transmission of electric energy caught from the rivers and water-falls of the Coast Range and of the Sierra Nevada. Already power of this class is being utilized in cities about San Francisco, and other projects are under way.

Street

System.

The street railway system of the city is the cause of A Good continued pride to residents, and constant favorable com- Railway ment from visitors. Up and down the steep hills of the city electric and cable cars are kept moving. The United Railroads street car system of San Francisco represents. the investment of eastern capital. It was built by Californians, but during the summer of 1902 was transferred to an eastern syndicate, the check of $17,599,675.15 being the largest check ever passed through the San Francisco clearing house. Under wise management a system of long rides for one five-cent fare is effectually carried out, bringing not only that vast pleasure ground, Golden Gate Park, to the doors of all residents, but enabling those

AT THE CENTER OF THE CITY'S LIFE-THE INTERSECTION OF THIRD, KEARNY AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO.

whose homes are on crowded down-town streets to quickly reach the ocean shore or to enjoy the view and invigorating breezes from the bluffs of Presidio Reservation.

Magnificent

Golden Gate Park-here is a pleasure reserve worth a A whole chapter of description. It comprises 1013 acres Park. and is valued at over fifteen millions of dollars. It is a wonderful pleasure ground of flowers and trees, lawns and various opportunities for recreation of all sorts. Once, naught but sandhills were here, and the marvelous beauty of the park is a demonstration of the possibilities of water and sand when directed by artistic controlling minds.

For more detailed description of San Francisco and its picturesque surroundings, reference is made to a book published by the California Promotion Committee entitled "San Francisco and Thereabout" by Charles Keeler.

THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY. An Inland Empire-One of the Great Fertile Valleys of the World, with Room for Millions - Placer Gold Soil that Produces Oranges — Abundance of Water for Irrigation and an Ample Rainfall - Vast Tracts of Alluvial Soil - The Luxury of Climate - Olives, Oranges, Wheat, and Stock Raising-Chances for Men of Thrift with Little Money-Entire Families of Fruit Pickers - Counties Embraced in the Valley and its Water-shed-The Capital of the State, a Beautiful CitySagacity of General Bidwell, Pioneer of Early Days—Fig Trees and Orange Trees Planted by the Argonauts of '49-Sutter's Fort and What it Stands For-Vast Tracts being Subdivided — Opportunities for Small Families — Water-ways and Railroads Carrying Products to Market - Renewed Gold Mining Activity-Mineral Springs-Schools, Churches, and Cultured Communities-Electrical Power in the Streams that Flow from the Sierra.

If you will delve beneath the sod,

Rich gifts you'll find, stored up by God,
In mountain cellars, hid from view,
When Time was young and earth was new.

And flowing fortunes in our soil

Are fountains, geysers, wells of oil.

Our myriad miles of golden grain
Ripple and wave like ocean's main.
And joyous here the bird that flies
'Neath ever-blue Italian skies.

-CARRIE B. RICE.

PR

ROBABLY the most wonderful monument in the world is the big orange tree at Bidwell's Bar in Butte County. It is sacred to the memory of a New England miner unknown and long since passed from earth. In the spring of 1857 he dropped there the seed from which grew this thrifty orange tree. The tree told a story and a sermon-and it is not through telling and preaching yet. In its thrifty growth, its shining leaves, its cleanly well-developed fruit, it told and it tells of the possibilities of orange culture here on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada within 400 miles of the northern boundary of the States and a little over 100 miles north from San Francisco. Men were a long time learning that