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Title: Pacific service magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Electrical engineering Public utilities
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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ervice Magazine About 1878 Whitneyinterested in the landsome Scotchmen who or-ganized what was calledthe Glasgow Land Com-pany, and they cameover with John W. Far-ris, their engineer, to in-spect the properties. Atthat time I had justraised a crop of 509sacks of red onions froman acre of ground, andknowing about the bigyield Whitney asked meto tell the Scotchmen justwhat the land could do.As I talked Whitney jotted down somefigures and readily estimated what a tre-mendous income the thousands of acreson the island would produce. As a resulthe made a deal with his prospects, andI believe that the yield from my acre ofonions had more to do with consummat-ing the sale than anything else, for itconvinced the farmers of the exceptionalfertility of the soil. Five or six years after I had pur-chased my land, I had it all under culti-vation and bought another hundred acres,paying for it $47.50 an acre. While atfirst I was able to raise nothing but gar-den truck, later on when the land was all
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