The Sacramento Bee from Sacramento, California • 20

E1TE SACRAMENTO BEE TtrESDAY DECEMBER 29 102S mM1110 Land Of Great Fertility Is Tapped By New Route gus pickles tomatoes spintedt pears and peaches As la now planned the cannery will be in operation some time late this year In its first season the cannery will specialize in pickles tomatoes and a brand of tomato catsup FACE 111 VS TT NEW CANNERY AT IRETON SOON TO BE CONSTRUCTED Congratulations-- to the Delta Section upon the achievements of its Progress Island Country Is Rich In Crops And Farm Homes Sherman Island Bridge Gives Much Better Trans portation Facilities To be 31odern Plant The new plant will be located near the present California Pickle Growers No 1 plant and will be one of the most modern in this region Canneries already in operation at Tsieton include Bayside No 3 Isle-ton No 1 California Pickle Growers No 1 Golden State Libby McNeil and Libby and Heinz Investment In New Plant To Be Close To $250000 and a message THE completion of the Sherman Island bricirre and the opening of the lowor end of the Sacramento River Highway provide additional transportation facilities for a region that is noted for Its wonderful fertility The area generally known as the Sacramento River Delta because of its fertility and productiveness is one of the most valuable farmareas in the United States The delta region lying between the San Joaquin and Sacramento Rivers comprise fifteen islands ranging front Grand Island with an area of 17000 acres to Ids Island only a few acres in extent The ISLETON (Sacramento Co) Dec 29--Another cannery is soon to he built in Isleton The new plant completely equip-red will represent an investment of approximately $250t00 and will be owned and operated by the California CD-operative Canneries whose bead offices are in San Francisco To Run Year 'Round The plant which will devote its activities to the canning of products grown in the delta will be operated on a year-round basis Some of the products to be handled are aspara MISREPRESENTATION Out of twenty-one brands of seed listed as "vim vigor superb special peerless supreme victor vitality perfection" and the analyses show that two-thirds failed to meet their guarantees Another deception of a few manufacturers was found to be the sliding scale guarantee if a feed is supposed to contain 40 to 60 per cent protein it is highly probable that it contains more than 40 to out-of-town folks Our Out-of-town Our home furnishing service extends to you the opportunity of choosing from the best mlections of furniture and having your purchases delivered with no extra cost A big full of the finest quality Irme furnishings A store from which it is a pleasure to choose the beautiful things for your home Dunn-Brett's is your the personal service which our policy insists upon that makes it a pleasure to buy from us Our Serv Our 1 tUnitY i and ha A big cipwluheDaialcusihtnur yn to buy We Deliver to Your We You 4' Immediate deliveries follow your purchases from this store We deliver absolutely tree to any section of Central California A great many of our best customers are those who live In the outlying districts adjacent to Sacramento Our quick deliveries and faultless service has made us many friends Imme store cantor A gro in the quick friends Citizens of the Delta Section Congratulations! 4i 4(4- 1 04 4T0 4 ktib et -4 10t it sNot tkec1 rsi '-)Piu- 1 va Ab Al i MO te t-xi e77 I I atc717119tUre to merits i otzrzoldekoarted COnfidearL6 can pa ss il I Il Itto ourstore i i into zr home i I 1 16------7gWIP57----)11 t4 4 I 11 A WOO IllekIs Ati: 114jell-41 Ask Our Representative to Ak to 1 larger islands In addition to Grand Island are Brannan Island Sherman Island Andrus Island Twitchell Island Tyler Island and Sutter Island The smaller islands are State Island Bouldin Island Wood Island West Island Merritt Island flyer Island Randall Island and Ida Island To tear Channel Wood Island In the Sacramento River opposite Rio Vista will soon be dredged away so as to clear the channel The farms on all of the islands are protected from flood waters by levees which have been constructed at a cost of several millions of dollars The expense of the reclamation however is more than equaled each year In the value of crops produced In addition to fruits and vegetables and hay the delta region of the Sacramento is noted for the quality and quantity of aaparagus produced on its lands Many hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of the vegetables are shipped to all parts of the United States and foreign oountries from delta points each year Denten Dot Islands 1 Magnificent farm homes dot the islands The new highwaq in its sinuous course passes many of this Show places 1 Sherman Island from which the new bridge Just opened to traffic takes its name is the lowermost of the islands in the delta It is between the San Joaquin and Sacramento Rivers with its southernmost tip at the Junction of the two rivers Three-Mile Slough separates it l'from Brannan and Twitchell Islands Twitchell Island is bounded by the 1 San Joaquin River and Seven-Mile Slough Brannan Island is sepa1 rated from the mainland by the Sacramento River Seven-Mile Slough the Mokelumne River and Georgiana Slough Large Island Andrus Island between Georgian Slough and the Sacramento River extends from Walnut Grove to below Isleton It Is one of the largest of the islands In area comprising 7600 acres of excellent land Tyler Island lies between Georglana Slough and the Mokelumne River It is Just south of Walnut Grove Grand Island the largest of the delta group Iles between the Sacra mento River and Steamboat Slough Ryde is the central trading point on the island Named After Sutter Sutter Island named after General John Sutter founder of Sacramento is the nosthernment of the delta group proper It lies between Sutter and Steamboat Sloughs and the Sacramento River It is Just below Courtland The new Pain tersville Bridge and the Steamboat Slough Bridge give access to Sutter Island from the mainland of Sacramento County and4Solano County respectively Randall Island is In the Sacramento River ntAer Courtland It is at the edge of the delta district Kimball and West Islands are in If you are planning to refurnish your Lc' te or to furnish a new one just phone or write us and we will instruct our salesman to call upon you Trained and experienced men expert in home furnish-lug are available at a call from you a If yo new our sal Trail lug ar THE Kimball-Upson Co joins with other Sacramentans in offering hearty congratulations on the early completion of the new bridge soon to be opened Pay as your Budget affords Pay Bud By buying here you also secure the advantages of our unusual credit plan allowing you to arrange payments that will easily fit your budget without undue strain This alone is an incentive to buy at Dunn-Brett's By 1 unusuo that This This together with recent highway development the most fertile and productive soil to be found anywhere and agricultural opportunities without parallel assure a new era of development and only to the Delta Section but also to Bar1Ti41 METil FURNITURE 111g-916 sr eti MAW 6623 Members of this firm for years have consistently advocated development of the highways and resources of the Delta Section and are glad to have had the opportunity on a number of occasions to take part in movements to this end IMM114 The removal of this island how ever IS -Contemplated in the neat' future the San Joaquin River near its con- Imo ru A taTri fluence with the Sacramento it RIVER We pledge anew our whole-souled co-operation in any movement in the interest of the Delta land of such an eitent that the delta Islands should now be reasonably safe in case of a repetition of such floods as in 1907 and 1909 The retention of Wood Island In the river channel opposite Rio Vista probably makes this the most restricted point at the present time The farm bureau tax per capita amounts to leas than the price of a haircut a ENLAR6E0 FOR FLOOD WATERS CLARKSBURG NURSERY CO 0 Clarksburg Yolo County PHONE COMMAND 522 I Cost Of Removing "Choke" Is Estimated By Officials At $9000000 Imballipson Z3 6 0 '7-r I I I KoSTREETO COMPLETE LINE OF FRUIT TREES Everything for Motoring Sports Recreation Radio Established 1891 SACRAMENTO CAL The Great Takes Another Step Forward Specializing in Pews on French Japan and lissuriensis roots Plums Prunes Peaches and Apricots IL Write for prices and information SACRAMENTO SALES YARD: North Twelfth Street 2726-W MIMS i- When the reclamation of Sherman Island was begun the left or bank of the Sacramento River was closely followed in the construction of the levee along that stream This formed a choke at Baker's Point opposite To land's landing where the river channel hugs the Montezuma Hills and is but about 700 feet wide This choke or the "neck of the bottle as it is sometimes called so restricted the flow of flood waters during the floods of 1907 and 1909 that the flood water was backed up to the elevation of eighteen feet on the Rio Vista 1 gauge alai overtopping the breaking' levees of the reclamation districts in that vicinity Choke Removal Included When plans for the Sacramento Flood Control Project were formulated by the California Debris Commission in 1910 they Included plans not only for the removal of this choke at likiker's Point but also for the widening of the entire Sacramento River channel from the mouth of Old River above Rio Vit-ta to the mouth of the Sacramento River at Collinsville utficiently to carry the increased flood discharge which would result from the confining of these flood waters to the river and by-pass channels of the project above It is estimated that this enlargement of the river channel sufficiently to safely carry such floods as occurred in 1907 and 1909 will require the excavation of 170000- cubic yards of material or nearly aa much as was originally removed in the excavation of the Panama Canal To the Farmers of the Antioch Delta Section While in Sacramento We Invite You to Call and Inspect Our Complete Line of FHRgYNOLDS The kg Al lee Co has always watched the development of the Delta District with much interestbecause of the many friends this company has in this district and because of its importance to Sacramento The completion of the Antioch bridge means much to everyone in the Delta section and is therefore the cause of gratifica- tion to us and to all Sacramentani Civil Engineers Port Bldg Satramento Calif Designing Engineers for the Bridge The INC ALLEE Co 4 Structural Reclamation and Irrigation Engineering 4 DRUG STORES 719 930 1001 I 1000 Sacramento Chu Messer Gen Mgr Ne comb Kinder Deep Tillage Implements Case Tractors and Plows Moline Implements Complete Stock of Hardware Harvie Hardware Implement Co 1220 STREET CAL RANCHERS! 1 GREETINGS TO THE DELTA DISTRICT tout Was $90000001 The estimated cost of this work wee $9000000 This work of enlarging the mouth of the river was commenced in August 1913 by the California Debris Commission with funds provided equally by federal and Mate appropriations Front that date until the present time two large suction dredgers owned by the federal government have been at work nearly continuously except for a number of months during the war A third suction dredger was operated for several months under a contract Severn' Dredgers Working There have also been from two to four olamshell dredgers at work during a connidcrable portion of this time building retaining levees behind which the material from the suction dredrors could be retained The work accomplished by this fleet of dredgers has been the removal of the choke at Baker's Point the cutting of a new channel tercels Horseshoe Bend and the widening of the river channel throughout the greater portion of this section of the river It is estimated that over one-half of the necessary yardage has been removed A much larger percent-awe of increase in carrying Capacity has reaulted however muse of the removal of the "neck of the bottle" Isinnds Fairly ante It in believed that the work of opening the mouth of the river has kept race with the construction of other portions of the project 'to Do You Have Difficulty in Employing Satisfactory Help? 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