Pacific Gas and Electric magazine . nia and Hawaiian Companys plant,in fashion benefical to the industry.—Editor Pacific Service Magazine. ON the straits of Carquinez, adjacentto tlie point where the SouthernPacific Overland permits itself to be fer-ried across San Francisco Bay, standthe factory and warehouses of the Cali-fornia and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Com-pany. Together they present an impos-ing figure, taking up, as they do, an areaof about eight acres between the railroadtracks and the waterfront at Crockett,which, as everyone knows, lies just be-low Port Costa and, as all who are in-
Pacific Gas and Electric magazine . nia and Hawaiian Companys plant,in fashion benefical to the industry.—Editor Pacific Service Magazine. ON the straits of Carquinez, adjacentto tlie point where the SouthernPacific Overland permits itself to be fer-ried across San Francisco Bay, standthe factory and warehouses of the Cali-fornia and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Com-pany. Together they present an impos-ing figure, taking up, as they do, an areaof about eight acres between the railroadtracks and the waterfront at Crockett,which, as everyone knows, lies just be-low Port Costa and, as all who are in- terested in Pacific Service know, marksthe point where the giant cables, stretchedbetween our North and South towers,span the bay. Here the hum of industry is never-ceasing. Day in, day out, by night andby day, the great factory grinds on, whilethe accompanying stretch of warehousesand wharves ever presents a busy spec-tacle. To and from this point greatsteamers from the Islands ply conlinu-ouslv, for here the raw cane-sugar that. 76 Pacific Service Magazine is the chief product of our tropi-cal neighbor is converted intothe pure, white commodity thatgraces the Californian breakfasttable. Sugar-refining here repre-sents, if not entirely a Califor-nian, at least a Western indus-try, and so a few notes ofdescriptive character con-cerning this particulardevelopment may notcome amiss at thistime, when the eyesof the entire civil-ized world arecentered uponour Golden State
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