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homesare lending individuality and beauty. The abundanceof raw
materials,lighter coDstructiondue to a favoring climateand quantity
productionhave prcduceda better.homefor lessmon€vhere. A com-
parison of prices rev€alsthe fact that similar.homesin the East aDd
South cost from tweDty-fiveto fifty per cent more.
The city ofiers a placeto work and play. Work is plosy, but re-
fleshment blings contentment. Oaklandoffels opportunity for recre-
ation. Jack Londonsaid his greatesldelight as a bo)'was to sail his
boat on San FranciscoBay. Our tennis couds producedHelen Wills,
probably the g€atest girl player of all time. Our play-grounds,ball
parks and athletic fields are devolopinga race of slrper men and
$romen. Mountain hikes and sea swinrninE exist within the cor-
p o l . a t e ' i m i tosf t h e . i 1 I . N o c i r y o f f . l qa s h r r r l - i ' ' t h e $ a y o " o u r -
door'life.
Numelouslheatr'esaboundin the downtown sectioD.A civic audi-
tolium, over'lookingLake Meuitt and capableof sesting thousands,
is lated among the first in America for beauty of design. The Uni-
velsitj'of CalifomiA, largest univ€tsity in the world, is located ir
Berkeley, Oakland'sneighbol on the north. Milts College,splendid
grade and high school,and numer-ousinstitutions for businessand
technicaltraining, give to OaklaDda scholastic standinE secondto
nonein the UnitedStates.
No city is great Ivithout a back coultlX/ on which to draw. In
this respectOakland is supreme. Her immediateback countn/ con-
sists of numerous valleys and plains, with potential strength suf-
ficient to supply food for' a city of millions. The tate Edward J.
Wickson,acknowledgedauthodty on Califonia fruit and vesetables,
has thefollowing1osay concerning a paft of our.back(ountrt :
"It is relatedthat at the time of the Americansettlementmost of
the Spanishfamilies living in difierent psrts of Alamedaand Contra
Costa had their garden patchesnear the Mission San Jose. Thev
krew iruil and vegelables xould gfow therc.bF.auseihey had seen
themin the missiongardensand they did not know they would grow
elsewhereand had not taken the tr.oubleto find out. Thus the Estu-
dillos of San Leandrchad their gardenpatch at the MissionSan Jose
and hansported their vegetablesfifteen or twenty miles, while right
outsidethe door.of their houseat San L€andro$,asthe linest go,rrlen
soil ,in tlLe Loorld,,arrdthey did not know it.,
There are numerousother sectionswith the sameor.equallygood
sojl. The San Ramon and Wainut Cr€ck sectionmust rival in pro-
duction any equalarea on earth. So gr-eatis the fruit yield there t}lat
thonsandsof props are neededto keepthe tr.eesflom brealdng down
under the weight of the fruit.
Oaklandis the latural distributing point for the two great va eys
of California, empiresso vast in extent and resourcesthat thev aie
capableof s||pporting$ith easea poplrlalionof ten millions. ihere
is but one gatewayto thesevalleysand that is through Oakland. The
Sacramentoand San Joaquin rivers ernpty into San FraDciscoBa).
Justjo the norl,hof Oaklard. Tl-e.argoesof theserivers,richesli;
all the world.will be dislributedfrom OAkland. the toqicalharborfor
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