Pacific service magazine . on $ • - Single Copies, Each 15 Gents Contents for July, 1918 Views of the River Country near Stockton Frontispiece PACIFIC SERVICE IN THE DELTA REGION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA .... Myrtle A MESSAGE TO THE ROYS IN THE SERVICE J. A. Britlon OUR PACIFIC SERVICE EMPLOYEES AS-SOCIATION INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ALONG OAK-LAND INNER HARROR BELT-LINE RAIL-ROAD J- Chas. Jordan 3547 4853 THE FINANCIAL SIDE OF PACIFIC SERV-ICE A. F. Hockenbeamer 54 EDITORIAL 50 TIDINGS FROM TERRITORIAL DISTRICTS 5S PACIFIC SERVICE ROLL OF HONOR 62 Index to Advertisers Alli»-Chalmer« Mfg.


Pacific service magazine . on $ • - Single Copies, Each 15 Gents Contents for July, 1918 Views of the River Country near Stockton Frontispiece PACIFIC SERVICE IN THE DELTA REGION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA .... Myrtle A MESSAGE TO THE ROYS IN THE SERVICE J. A. Britlon OUR PACIFIC SERVICE EMPLOYEES AS-SOCIATION INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ALONG OAK-LAND INNER HARROR BELT-LINE RAIL-ROAD J- Chas. Jordan 3547 4853 THE FINANCIAL SIDE OF PACIFIC SERV-ICE A. F. Hockenbeamer 54 EDITORIAL 50 TIDINGS FROM TERRITORIAL DISTRICTS 5S PACIFIC SERVICE ROLL OF HONOR 62 Index to Advertisers Alli»-Chalmer« Mfg. Go H S{;^*SJ^J*S^^i r„ iv Basford H R v Pelton Water Wheel Co iv Ghaplin-FuJton ^ Sprague Meter ^ v Gflneral Electric Co • Standard Underground Cable Co. v Sal G^UghV Co.::..... Hi Steiger* Kerr Stove & Foundry Co u Graham Jas Mfg Go ** Webbach Company vi National City Company 4th page cover Weatinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co vii Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co vi Wood, R. D., & Co n. River views near Sloiktun, California. lUadiug left to right, from the top downward, these show: (1) Duck pond on the Al Lindley farm. Rough and Ready Island; (2) residence of Mr. H. S. Bates on Roberts Island; (3) wagon bridge over the San Joaquin River on the Borden highway; (4) Stockton Golf and Country Club; (5) residence of Mr. Frank Guernsey, Rough and Ready Island. PACIFIC SERVICE MAGAZINE Volume X JULY, 1918 Number 2 Pacific Service in the Delta Regionof Central California By FREDERICK S. MYRTLE [For the historical data in the following article the writer is indebted to Mr George , general manager of California W)elta Farms, a reclamation enterprise whoseactivities cover tracts of island territory aggregating upwards of acres in extent.] ONCE a vast, inhospitable swamp, overwhich the turbulent flood-watersfrom the Sacramento River rushed atwill; now a picturesque cluster of fertile,produce - yielding islands, contributingmillions to the a


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