Identifier: pacificgaselectr41913paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific Gas and Electric magazine
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Public utilities
Publisher: (San Francisco, Calif.) : Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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or purchase, by reason of itscheapness in price, turns out to be rank ex-travagance. It is undoubtedly true that could some ofthe financiers in the earlier days of large de-velopment projects come back and view themethods and machinery in use today, theywould accuse us of being spendthrift aristo- crats. But they would be wrong, for whatmay seem extravagance to the layman or evento some professionals is, after all, merely acase of shrewd economy. As an instance of this the writer venturesto put forward the nearly-completed projectof the West Sacramento Company, just acrossthe river from the capital city of California.Here, three years ago, was a great tract oflow lands, embracing over 12,000 acres,which were purchased from more than 1,000private owners and reclaimed for agriculturalpurposes. The writer of this article wasselected by the Directors of the West Sacra-mento Company, Messrs. E. R. Lilienthal,Louis Sloss, Eugene DeSabla, W. P. Ham-mond and others of San Francisco, as their
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