Excerpt from Special Message of Governor George C. Perkins to the Legislature of the State of California: Twenty-Fourth Session
So far I have only considered the injury done by the actual and prospective destruction of the fertility of arable lands. It is, how ever, impossible to confine the consideration of this branch of the subject to that channel. It is necessary to bear in mind that the destruction of the navigability of the Sacramento River is involved. This would deprive the whole of Northern California of competition in transportation. The wheat cro alone of that region may be estimated at tons. It may a so be fairly calculated that the removal of competition would result in a rise of freight rates to the extent of $2 per ton. Thus, then, an additional tax of a year on the movement of the harvest alone is involved in this ques tion as concerns Northern California.
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