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San Francisco-The l3-county San Francisco Bay region continued its astonishing growth during 1955 and now estimates its population af a,whopping 4,I26i8AQ, the S. F. Chamber of Commerce said last month. This amounts to

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an average of 10,622 new re6idents a month since 1950 and a healthy 7-year increase of 26.34/o. The Chamber predicted that residents of the l3-county area will reach 4,5@,000 by 196O when the next federal-census is taken.

It covers the counties of San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Mateo, Solano, Nup", Santa Clara; Sonoma, Sac-ramento, San Joaquin, Santa Cruz and Yolo. (The Chamber defines the San Francisco-Oakland metropolitan area as the counties of San Francisco, Alameda, San Mateo, Contra Costa, Marin and Solano; the San Francisco Bay area as those six counties and also the counties of Napa, Santa Clara and Sonoma; it considers the Bay region to include the nine counties and Sacramento, San Joaquin, Santa Cruz and. Yolo.)

As 1956 ended, this area, with only 29.9% of the state's population and only 6.4o/s oL its land area, had 3L.9o/o of its cash net income, 37o/s of. its wholesale sales, and 44.2o/o of the state's total bank debits.

The population of the city of San Francisco is now an estimated 810,000, which is 34,600 more than in 1950 and 175,500 more than in 1940. Its average "daylight" population is more than one-million persons. The City leads the nation's larger cities with an effective per-capita buying income of $2,555, compared with $2,034 for all of California and $1,681 for the nation.

Since 1940, the nine counties cored by San Francisco increased 93.7% in population, which -the Chamber said brought a 4M.l/o increase in retail trade. Northern California, with € of the state's 58 counties, contains 7O% of. the state's farms, 73/o of its agricultural acreage and accounted for 62/o'of its marketed farm products.

Oronge Gounty Grows 25O Doily

Santa Ana, Calif.-The arrival of. 25A new residents daily in Orange county has boosted the county population pasi 600,000, more than doubling the total in the last seven years, county supervisors revealed. Santa Ana continued to lead the cities with 69,345, but Anaheim reached 60,328 this Tune." a gain of. 400/o over 1950. Other comparisons tattge itom Garden Grove's 42,W0 at its incorporation last year and 58,380 today (at press time), to La Habra.'s 4961 then and 14,710 now.

(Tell them you saw it in The Cali.fornia Lumber Merchont)