Pacific service magazine . ernpart of the Sacramento Valley is the plantof the Northern Basket Company, locatedat Red Bluf¥. Although operations com-menced so late this year that most of thelarger packers had already purchased theirrequirements the plant put out 20,000baskets per day. This can be materially in-creased with the present machinery which iselectrically operated. The company has itsown veneering plant at Anderson. To packa carload of green fruit 4000 baskets arerequired. Next in order of progress comes Corning,where the Maywood Packing Companyoperates, its chief industry being the
Pacific service magazine . ernpart of the Sacramento Valley is the plantof the Northern Basket Company, locatedat Red Bluf¥. Although operations com-menced so late this year that most of thelarger packers had already purchased theirrequirements the plant put out 20,000baskets per day. This can be materially in-creased with the present machinery which iselectrically operated. The company has itsown veneering plant at Anderson. To packa carload of green fruit 4000 baskets arerequired. Next in order of progress comes Corning,where the Maywood Packing Companyoperates, its chief industry being the pro-cessing of olives of various varieties. Near-ing Sacramento the GlobeFlour Mills and theUnion Ice Company plantsin Woodland are illustra-tive of the march of indus-try. Then come the cityand suburbs of Sacramentoitself, with 417 manufac-turing industries in actualoperation. One industrial under-taking of magnitude at thelower end of the valley isthe plant of the PacificPortland Cement Com- Pacific Service Magazine 333. pany in the foot-hills southeast ofSuisun. Thisplant was origi-nally establishedin 1902, the chiefreason for select-ing the site beingthat it was handyto the lime stonequarries and claypits. Electricityhas developed thisinto an enormousundertaking,which when run-ning to capacityturns out 4200 barrels of cement in a day and is taking4000 horsepower of electricity and 350human operatives to do it. This industry is really worth while formore than one reason. The mill buildingscovering several acres in extent are sur-rounded by a village of some sixty neatmodel homes, with paved and lighted streetsand sewer, water and electric distributingsystems installed. The conveniences includea hotel, store, hospital, school and othermodern adjuncts of a complete moderntown. Some of the plants employees worksmall ranches in the neighborhood. In this extremely superficial sketch of in-dustry in the Sacramento Valley nothinghas been said of rural electrification. This,it will
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