Great is the Sacramento Valley

SACRAMENTO is the starting point for many things. It is a city of 110,000 people, and it leads a double life. ' It is.governmental headquarters for a State of 5,0O0,000 inhabitants.

And it is shipping and packing headquarters for a farm region of. 27,ffil,M acres.

Twenty-seven million acres of arable land ! Such is the government's official statement for the counties in the valley's level and the Sierra and Coast Range foothills around its rim. Less than half of it is'productive as yet.

A land as fat as butter-already rich beyond computing -and with its possibilities barely scratched !

IT'S THE world.'s most varied example of diversified production, is the Sacramento region. Thirty crops, last year, from field ahd tree, brought in from one to sixty million dollars apiece. Mining of a dozen minerals from gold to cement, and 50 per cent of California's lumbering, ran its 1927 income, wholesale, up to $300,000,000.

By the time they reached a market, those products were rvcrth around a billion. And some products didn't reach market. 'fhere's the region's problem.

Just as a sample of variety: That oranges, apples, almonds and apricots and walnuts-nearly a million tons of put of lemons-incredible tonnages specialties.

And then, it also included barley, bushels of rice, arr,azing quantities of wheat-anything else you may name.

1927 ofipat included and figs and peaches grapes-a huge out- of other fruits and hay, hops, 8960,000 cotton, beans, oats, sundry and on

Add to it the world's greatest output of asparagus, shiploads of celery, lettuce ahd other ve,getables, top of it all pour the dairy output of 100,000 cows.

There you ha'ue the Sacramento region-part of it !-(Los Angeles Examiner).

George Knudsen Transferred To Los Angeles

George Knudsen, who has been connected with the San Franciio office of W. R. Chamberlin & Co. for the past four years, has been transferred to the company's Lo-s .A1geles-office where he will assist Jack Rea, manager- of their Southern California operations. He will call on the trade in the Southern California territory.

M. E. OLMSTED IN CALIFORNIA

M. E. Olmsted, vice-president and general manager the newly-formed Southern Redwood Company, whic]t takeh over all the properties of the Finkbine-Guild Co' California, is now in California.

CLARENCE S. FRANTZ

Clarence S. (Claudie) Frantz, vice-president of the L_oop Lumber Co., San Francisco, died suddenly at Clipper Gap, Calif., September 22.

Mr. Fiantz was one of the best known lumbermen in Northern California, having been with the Loop Lumber Co. since 1916, where he was in charge of lumber buying and wholesale sales. He was 62 years old, and was a native of St. Louis. He is survived by his'widow, Mrs. Belle Franlz, and two brothers, Fred and Harry Frantz. There was a large and representative attendance of lumbermen at the funeral services, held September 25.