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Excerpt from Greater Oakland, 1911: A Volume Dealing With the Big Metropolis on the Shores of San Francisco Bay
General business - Oakland offers great opportunities to the Investor, Home seeker, Business Man, Manufacturer, Merchant and Wage - earner. There are upwards of thirty Banks and Financial Institutions, with an aggregate capital of Millions of Dollars. The bay shore and water front are dotted with the busy plants of Iron Foundries, Pipe Works, Agricultural Works, Porcelain Works, Rubber Works, Manufactories of Sash and Doors, Blinds, Flaxseed Oil, Oil Cake, Boots and Shoes, Paints, Ink, Gas Engines, Confectionery, Cotton Mills, Cars, Brooms, Knit Goods, Boxes, Notions, Chemicals, Explosives, Cereal Products, Flour and Foodstuffs, besides great Wine distributing depots, Ship Yards, Pottery Works and Canneries, and a thousand and one enterprises in which raw material is modified and transformed for the use and service of men.
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General business - Oakland offers great opportunities to the Investor, Home seeker, Business Man, Manufacturer, Merchant and Wage - earner. There are upwards of thirty Banks and Financial Institutions, with an aggregate capital of Millions of Dollars. The bay shore and water front are dotted with the busy plants of Iron Foundries, Pipe Works, Agricultural Works, Porcelain Works, Rubber Works, Manufactories of Sash and Doors, Blinds, Flaxseed Oil, Oil Cake, Boots and Shoes, Paints, Ink, Gas Engines, Confectionery, Cotton Mills, Cars, Brooms, Knit Goods, Boxes, Notions, Chemicals, Explosives, Cereal Products, Flour and Foodstuffs, besides great Wine distributing depots, Ship Yards, Pottery Works and Canneries, and a thousand and one enterprises in which raw material is modified and transformed for the use and service of men.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
Contributors
Author
Evarts I. Blake
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780364317082
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Page Count - 463
Paperback
Contributors
Author
Evarts I. Blake
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781332133192
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Page Count - 465
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