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Show CALIFORNIA'S PREMIER CITY. After all, San Francisco is California's Califor-nia's center, its chief city. Hie city of which the true Califomian takes a genuine pride, the city of pioneers. The pain in the last t. n ye-ars, 7 1. wo, is by iu means as gie;it as Is shown In many other cities .f the Foiled Slates, and yet it Is greater than them all. For in Ihe middle of the decade San Francisco was depep-ulateel. depep-ulateel. Her people's resldenees were distributed over four counties, her less prmanent populaii' n was scattered over the globe. Only femr years have elapsed since that disaster, and yet San Francisco has come back. She shows nn actual percentage? gain heavier than Pittsburg or Cincinnati or New Orleans or St. Louis or Boston. And In the figures that are now mad" public by the census bireau there Is inc luded nothing but the original San Francisco. New Yotk has taken In within that decade a vast territory and population. Iss Angeles has reached out for suburban properly and a pait of her wonderful gain of 211 per cent is duo to annexatiein. But Sjn Francisco, Fran-cisco, wiped from the map In a day, her people sent scurrying to Oakland. Almeda, Berkeley, San Jose nnd the smaller northern inwns, is to the front with a splendid showing that makes glad the heart of every son of the state. Had the metro'o'is during tho ten years that have passed been In lhe business of annexatlen. had It taken over Oakland and Berkeley and Alameda Ala-meda am other enviions. Ihe population popula-tion today would be "G7,51S and it would rank as fifth among Ihe rlties of the I'nln instead of eleventh as at present. And that consolidation will probably come wilhin the next ten years. Tho great population e-mbrac-e-ding the tetrilory about the bay makes up lo reality erne community, and when the next fedoial census is taken what with the natural growth and as the result of annexation, San Francisco will he outranked oniy by New York. Chicago and Philadelphia. Bakersfteld Caliioinlnn. |