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Identifier: pacificmunicipal232419101911leag (find matches)
Title: Pacific municipalities
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: League of California Municipalities League of Pacific Northwest Municipalities
Subjects: Municipal government
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Municipalities
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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e in point of construction and ar-rangement, and are absolutely fireproof. They are equipped with the latest andbest machinery for the manufacture of high grade flour, and not only the plantitself, but the methods of operation used throughout are of the most sanitarycharacter in every respect. This establishment is one of the most substantialevidences of San Diegos modern growth and commercial expansion. The millsturn out from three hundred and fifty to four hundred barrels a day. THE LUMBER INDUSTRY IN SAN DIEGO San Diego Building permits have increased from about One Hundred Thous-and Dollars in 1900 to more than Three Million Dollars for 1910. During the sameperiod the population incre^tsed from seventeen thousand to forty thousand. Thesetwo sets of figures are indicative of the phenomenal development of the resourcesof San Diego and vicinity. Almost three times as much building material hasbeen consumed each and every month during the year 1910 as was used during rG m JO > C V3
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1 134 PACIFIC MUNICIPALITIES the entire year of 1900. The Wholesale Lumber Yards and Mills have kept pacewith the growth of the City and are fully equipped to meet all demands of thetade. Taa yards are stickei with miay million? of feet of lumber of all varie-ties from which the most exacting consumer can find just what his needs or tastesmay require. The Mills are equipped with the most modern machinery forpromptly turning out all kinds of mill work, sash, doors, boxes, etc. There are large lumber wharves on the Bay Front, reaching out to deepwater where cargoes may be discharged direct from the decks and holds to wharf.An unique feature of the lumber industry of San Diego is the bringing of largerafts of lumber down the Pacific Coast from Oregon and Washington forests.During the last three years, fifteen of these rafts, aggregating more than sixtymillion feet of lumber have been towed down an ocean trail over twelve hundredmiles long, brought up the bay and anchored alongside the mi

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