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Show WHAT THE SAINTS WILL SEE AT TRAINING CAMP il - ri u; rl-ttrr? - d f il I- I rrtr- . v4- , - rf LiVf N wv -c r ACxrr CONCREGATONAl CHURCH if I ' :,"'X ' ' '? f CREK HOT SPGIHGS J t ; CP H: W ? - - JARPomc lr- - , " - " o s rvs pvz. be the ball park. o o o ooot., ... . r- CJTs r'-'ii -'n-r im-'"--- : SOU THE&AI PACIFIC JQTSfiVLLE J l-"" POf?TEf?VLLE STATION ; SKTtT L Bf?A R. V ' &J 1 f ' O 4 - POR.TERVLL.E GRADE SCHOOL.. O o o Bernhardt Ball Tossers Will Find Themselves in Hustling Community This Spring; New Ball Field Excellent for Conditioning Purposes. PORTER. VILLE, the town where the Salt Lake baseball club will train this spring, is a community of 6000 inhabitants, and is located in Tulare county, Cal., near the center of the state, and midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. It has an ideal climate for the conditioning con-ditioning of athletes. That roses are in full bloom before the time of the year when baseball players begin to try out their arms, and that the citrus industry is the principal form of productive pro-ductive effort of the town, should be sufficient to recommend the climate. A baseball player needs warmth to round him into shape, and Porterville supplies that warmth, without adding many of the disagreeable features which are found at places nearer the sea. The town is situated at the base of the Sierra Nevada mouutains and possesses an invigorating atmosphere, along with its warm weather. 1'iue automobile au-tomobile roads and interesting mountain trails lead to numerous resorts in the hills. A Hustling Place. Porterville possesses a great record for civic progre.-siveness. It has no saloons, no slums aud no foreign population. pop-ulation. The bank deposits are among the largest per capita on the Pacific coast, and an unusually high percentage percent-age of the people own their own homes. The town has one of the best lighting light-ing systems in the siato, miles of paved streets, ore of the most complete and most sanitary of Fewer systems, splendid splen-did schools and churches aud shons which compare well with those in the larger coast cities. In fact, Porterville boasts that it is a metropolis in every sense of the word, despite its small' population the metropolis of the early orange district of California. Each year it ships 2000 cars of citrns fruits to eastern markets. mar-kets. In addition, it is the trading center for a prosperous alfalfa and dairy district. It ships olives, which many critics sny are the best to be found in the world. The spirit of progress is abundant at Porterville. The chamber of commerce com-merce is a hustling organization and is sunported by the entire population. Tt. is the chnmber of commerce .which invited the S&inli' -teair V tcr- ville and placed $1000 in real money in the bank as a guarantee of good faith and as a partial offset to tho training expenses. A new ball field is now in course of construction, men with teams drawing plows and harrow and drags and rollers roll-ers are busy every day, and, according to Manager Bill Bernhard, who, with President Murphv. recently visited Porterville, Por-terville, the ball' lot will be just about, the proper caper for his athletes. In connection wdth the First Congregational Congregation-al church there is a big gymnasium, and the use of this place and its apparatus has been tendered the Saints. Porterville Porter-ville has a daily newspaper, in which the doings of the Salt Lakers will be fully chronicled each dav. |