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Title: Pacific service magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Electrical engineering Public utilities
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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d it in wheat and barley andoccasionally put in potatoes and corn.Still later I leased it to the Chinese, whoalways planted truck crops such as sweetpotatoes, chicory, cucumbers, beans andpotatoes. In these da\s of every comfort andconvenience people have no conceptionof the crude surroundings which wereour lot. For two years my wife neverate a meal outside of the house on ourbank, and in that length of time shenever saw another womans face. It wastwenty-two miles to Stockton by row-boat. I hired Chinese to haul the produce.They would leave about eleven oclockat night and get in bydaylight. I built the first roadacross the upper divi-sion to connect with thecable ferry on the SanJoaquin River just belowwhat is now the Streckerranch. I also helped tobuild the first school inabout 1880 and was oneof its trustees, while mydaughter was one of thestar pupils. Alexander T.Vogelsang, who has risento a high place in theFederal service, was thefirst teacher, and Dr. Pacific Service Magazine 43
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Looking from point on Disappointment Slough northwest acrossEmpire tract. Chas. R. Harry and Dr. Fred Baird alsowere early instructors in the school. I retained possession of my land until1908, although I had not lived on it since1895. The place is now owned by Mrs.J. W. T. Muhs, who lives on the land. Under the personal guidance of Mr. J.H, Fagg, our companys power superin-tendent in the San Joaquin District, thewriter recently had the pleasure of travel-ing over a considerable portion of thisisland territory. Our means of locomo-tion was a fast launch, one of the Pa-cific Service fleet, and for one wholelong day we darted in and about theislands, now upon the broad waters ofthe river, now through some narrowslough, until, when nightfall compelledour return to Stockton, we felt we hadobtained a fairly comprehensive idea ofthe agricultural situation in the Deltacountry. One of our most interesting experi-ences was a visit to Rindge tract, wherewe saw hemp growing in the open, beinghar

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