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$2,000,000 HOTEL OAKLAND, OAKLAND, CAL.
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O A KL A N D
A CITY OF DESTINED GREATNESS
On the Continental Side of San Francisco Bay
Population:
1900......
66,960
1910.....
150,174
1913.......
200,000
Post Office Receipts:
1908......
$335,908
1910.....
376,032
1912........ 437,732
Bank Clearings:
1908.......... $ 76,847,792
1911...... 172,484,561
1912......... 192,580,097
Building Permits:
Fiscal year-
1908-1909....... 5,941,436
1910-1911........ 6,370,415
1912-1913...... 9,201,960
In the calendar year
1912, Oakland's building
permits exceeded in value
those of Cincinnati, of St.
Paul, of Baltimore, of
Louisville, of Denver, of
Toledo, of Columbus, of
New Orleans-all cities of
much greater population.
Manufactured Goods.
1909...... 22,343,000
1912........ 45,990,000
Assessed Valuation
1913—$152,298,350.
OAKLAND HAS
| A $500,000 auditorium
seating 12,500 people, in
course of construction.
|| A $2,000,000 City Hall.
|| 240 miles of street-car
lines (including other
East Shore Cities).
|| 389 acres of parks.
| 531 miles of streets.
| 15 public playgrounds.
| The largest cotton
mills west of Chicago.
| The
only elevated
railway in California-
3844 feet in length.
| Six Railway Lines:
The Southern Pacific
(three distinct entering
lines — two from the
Southeast and one from
the North).
Western Pacific.
Santa Fe.
Oakland, Antioch & East-
ern (Electric).
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Oakland is now expending proceeds of a bond issue
of $2,503,000 on Harbor Improvement, in conjunction
with the Federal Government, which has expended
$3,420,000, and railway companies which are expending
many millions on deep-water terminals in Oakland.
Water-borne commerce of Oakland in 1911 was valued
at $154,224,950.
Oakland will double in population in five years after
the opening of the Panama Canal.
