Florida, its history and its romance; . age of every large city in the United States,these facts mean a population of, at least, a half million people for Greater Sacramento before thisempire shall have been fully developed. Of Sacramento, Frank A. Vanderlip, president of the City National Bank of New York, andone of the most powerful financial men of the nation, said: I could not be as modest as you men ofSacramento seem to be, were I a citizen of a city possessing a partially developed agricultural empireof 6,000,000 acres of fertile soil, an empire traversed by rivers of wonderful possibili
Florida, its history and its romance; . age of every large city in the United States,these facts mean a population of, at least, a half million people for Greater Sacramento before thisempire shall have been fully developed. Of Sacramento, Frank A. Vanderlip, president of the City National Bank of New York, andone of the most powerful financial men of the nation, said: I could not be as modest as you men ofSacramento seem to be, were I a citizen of a city possessing a partially developed agricultural empireof 6,000,000 acres of fertile soil, an empire traversed by rivers of wonderful possibilities. That he was not dealing in flattery, was shown by the fact that he and his friends afterwardsinvested more than $2,000,000 in the lands of the agricultural empire which had so astonished of it! Wall Street money pouring into land investments in the Sacramento Valley, 3,000miles distant; Wall Street money, which hitherto shriveled when anything was mentioned that didnot savor of the known certainty, as of death or SUTTER CLUB LIBRARY F^. C. Hemmings, ATchitect In this agricultural empire is to be found the keynote to Sacramentos future. The Nationalgovernment is recognizing the greatness of the citys future by entertaining a report by engineersrecommending the expenditure of $33,000,000 for the purpose of controlling the flood waters of theSacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, which, among other things, will permit of the reclamationof over 1,000,000 acres of river-bottom land as rich as the delta of the Nile. Governmental recog-nition is also given in the approval of a project for a nine-foot channel from the delta of the riverto Sacramento, and in the appropriation of $400,000 to uncork the river at its mouth; and,still further, in doubling the appropriation for keeping navigation open the year round as far northas Red Bluff, 300 miles from the delta. That Sacramentans are alive to the future of the city and are acquiring a wholesome Sacra-mento spirit, is
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