Pacific Press to Move to Mountain View
In its issue of June 14 the San Francisco Call publishes an article relating to the removal of the Pacific Press Publishing Co. from Oakland to Mountain View, Cal. Lifelike portraits of Brethren C. H. Jones, M. C. Wilcox, and W. T. Knox, and a good view of the present plant of the Pacific Press serve to give prominence to the article. We quote the following paragraphs:— The Seventh-day Adventists have closed their annual camp-meeting, which has been in progress in this city for two weeks, and which is in reality the annual business meeting of the many industries and organizations of that sect. This meeting has been one of the most important in the history of the order, for two important moves were decided upon. The Pacific Press Publishing Company, the Seventh-day Adventist church, and the general Seventh-day Adventist settlement in Oakland will all be removed to Mountain View, Santa Clara County. The Adventist college at Healdsburg will also be removed to some spot not yet selected. These two moves will be an abandonment of what have been the great centers of Adventism in California. The move from Oakland has been under contemplation for some time, and a committee has been at work which finally presented the plan that was adopted at the annual meeting of the Pacific Press Publishing Company. The resolution upon the removal of the Healdsburg College reads:— “That the recommendation from the Lord be accepted that the present property in Healdsburg be sold, and land, well wooded and watered, be purchased, and the college be established in some rural district where teachers and students can have the privilege of working the soil and raising produce. This will reduce expense, and better educate both teachers and students.”