Langley's San Francisco directory for the year commencing 1880, Part 8

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THE NORTHERN RAILWAY is also in detached parts, operating in conjunction with the California Pacific, joining it at Suisun and leaving it at Woodland, whence it runs to Willows, in Colusa County, 64 miles from Woodland and 151 from San Francisco. This northern arm runs through one of the finest wheat regions of the State, and is to be extended to a junction with the Oregon Division of the Central Pacific, at, or near Tehama. From the foregoing it would appear that the State was covered by the rails of a single company, as they run in every direction and embrace so great an extent of country. There are, however several independent lines as follows:

THE SAN FRANCISCO AND NORTH PACIFIC, from Donahue to Cloverdale, a distance of 66 miles, with a branch from San Rafael to Junction, near Petaluma, 20} miles, and a branch from Fulton to the Inmber region about Gnerneville, 16 miles in length. This road makes connection with San Francisco by steamboat from Donahue, 24 miles, and from San Rafael 14 miles.

MULLER'S OPTOMETER, The only reliable Instrument for Testing Defective Vision, 135 Montgomery.

Dixon & Bernstein, Show Case Manuf's, 250 Market St.

JONAS J. MORRISON

has the most select stock of all the leading varieties of Lumber in the Market. N. E. cor. Mission and Spear Sts.

PROGRESS OF THE CITY.

THE NORTH PACIFIC COAST RAILROAD is a narrow gauge from Saucelito and San Quen- tin to Duncan's Mills, having a total length of rail of 80} miles, including its two terminal arms. This connects by ferry from Saucelito 6 miles to San Francisco, and from San Quen- tin 11 miles.

THE VACA VALLEY AND CLEAR LAKE RAILROAD connects with the California Pacific at Elmira, in Solano County, and running through the fine fruit and farming region of Vaca Valley and Winters, terminates at Madison, in Yolo County, a length of 30 miles.

THE NEVADA COUNTY NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD connects the Central Pacific at Colfax, in Placer County, with Grass Valley and Nevada City, in Nevada County, a total length of 22} miles.

THE CALIFORNIA NORTHERN RAILROAD is the pioneer of the northern portion of the State, running from Marysville to Oroville, in Butte County, a distance of 28 miles.

THE SOUTH PACIFIC COAST RAILROAD is a narrow gauge connecting with San Francisco by ferry to Alameda and running thence to Santa Cruz, a total distance of 80 miles. This road is not fully completed, there being several tunnels yet unfinished. The road in oper- ation extends from Alameda to Wrights, a length of 57} miles, or 62} from San Francisco. The route is continued by stage. Frequent trips are made, and the road is the most perfect of its class.

THE MONTEREY AND SALINAS VALLEY RAILROAD is a narrow gauge running from Salinas to Monterey, a distance of 19 miles. This has recently been sold to the Central Pacific management, and will probably be taken up and the route abandoned.

THE SANTA CRUZ RAILROAD is a narrow gauge from the Southern Pacific at Pajaro to Santa Cruz, a distance of 21} miles. The Santa Cruz and Felton Railroad connects the two places named in its title, having a length of 14 miles.

THE PITTSBURG AND BLACK DIAMOND RAILROADS are each 7 miles in length, and are used for the transportation of coal from the mines of Mount Diablo to landings on Suisun Bay.

THE SAN LUIS OBISPO AND SANTA MARIA VALLEY RAILROAD connects the valley of the interior with the steamer landing at Point Harford, a distance of 11 miles.

Many other roads and extensions are projected, and with the increasing business of the State, and the recovery of the people from recent financial embarrasments, we may look for great enterprise in this direction.

Steamship Lines.

PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY .- This company owns and operates the following lines: New York and Aspinwall, two thousand miles; Panama and San Francisco, three thousand two hundred miles; Panama and Acapulco, one thousand eight hundred miles; Panama and Champerico, one thousand one hundred miles; San Francisco and Hongkong, six thousand four hundred miles; San Francisco and Tacoma, one thousand miles; San Francisco and Australia, eight thousand six hundred miles; total length of routes, twenty-three thousand nine hundred miles, a distance, very nearly equal to the circumference of the earth.

For the transaction of the immense business included in these routes, the company now owns and has in service twenty-two iron screw propellers, seventeen side-wheel steamships, besides superannuated vessels, tug boats, etc. Many of these vessels are of the best class of naval construction, and possess the most luxurious appointments.

In the New York and San Francisco through line, via the Isthmus, a vessel leaves New York on the 20th and 30th of each month, and San Francisco on the 5th and 20th of each month. The vessels of this line touch only at San Jose de Guatemala, Acapulco, Manzanillo, San Blas and Mazatlan. In the Panama and Champerico line, a vessel leaves New York on the 10th and 30th of each month, and Champerico on the 4th and 20th. In the Panama and Acapulco line, a vessel leaves New York on the 20th and Acapulco on the 18th of each month. The Champerico and Acapulco lines are more especially designed for the accommodation of the coastwise trade of the Central American and Mexican ports of the Pacific.

On the great intercontinental line, a vessel is dispatched from San Francisco on the 1st of every month, except when that day is Sunday, when the sailing day is on the Saturday previous, for Yokohama and Hongkong. On this line the business of the past year has shown a slight increase over 1878, in the matter of freights, accompanied, however, with a material decrease in the passenger traffic.

On the Australia route, a vessel leaves San Francisco every fourth Saturday, commencing with January 17th of the present year, carrying the United States and British mails, for Hon- olulu, Auckland and Sydney.

On the Tacoma line, a vessel is dispatched on the 10th, 20th and 30th of each month, for Victoria, B. C., Port Townsend, Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia and Portland. The company's more important connections are as follows : At Yokohama, with steamers of the Mitsu Bishi Co., for Hiogo, Nagasaki and Shanghai; at Hongkong, with English and French steamers for the upper ports of India, the Red Seaand the Suez Canal; at Sydney, with steamers for Welling- ton, Melbourne, Adelaide and Hobart Town; at Panama, with Pacific Steam Navigation Co.'s line for all important South American ports, and at Aspinwall, with steamers of the Royal Mail

GEO. W. CLARK,

645 MARKET, wholesale and retail dealer in PAPER HANGINGS Interior Decorator. and all kinds of Window Shade Material and. Fixtures.

D. HICKS & CO., Leading Bookbinders of San Francisco.

JAMES E. GORDON & CO.,

WHOLESALE HARDWARE, Corner Market and Front Streets.

SAN FRANCISCO DIRECTORY.

Steam Packet Co., Hamburg-American Packet Co., West Indies and Pacific Steamship Co., and Campagnie Generale Trans-Atlantique, to the various ports of Europe direct.

PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP COMPANY .- This company does nearly all the coasting business between San Francisco and San Diego, excepting the transportation of lumber. Its steamers run to nearly every port on the Pacific Coast from San Diego on the south to British Columbia on the north. It owns sixteen steamers, two of them just off the stocks. Their new steamer, State of California, is probably the fastest and finest ever built in this country, being the first and only one flying the American flag built under the supervision and rules of the British Lloyds. She is on the Portland, Oregon, route. The other, the Victoria, is on the British Columbia route

The company is under the general agency of the well-known firm of Goodall, Perkins & Co., who own a majority of the stock. The amount of the capital stock is $2,000,000, divided into 20,000 shares of $100 each. Over $1,000,000 has been paid in, and the company's assets foot up largely in excess of that amount. The Ticket Office is at 214 Montgomery, and the General Office at No. 10 Market street

THE OREGON RAILWAY AND NAVIGATION COMPANY (until recently called the Oregon Steamship Company) established, nearly twenty years ago, a regular line of steamships to ply between San Francisco, Astoria and Portland, Oregon. Vessels now leave each port about every five days, carrying the United States mails, express, treasure, freight and pas- sengers, and connecting with quick dispatch at Portland with railroads, steamers and other connecting stage lines, for all points in Oregon, Washington and Idaho Territories, British Columbia and Alaska. To accommodate the constantly increasing trade and travel between San Francisco and Oregon, this company has, during the past two years, added to its fleet five large, new, fast, first-class iron-screw steamships. All of these steamships combine great speed with great carrying capacity of passengers and freight, and are provided with all the modern improvements and elegant appointments, including superior cabin and steerage accommodations, for the safety and comfort of the traveling public, and the quick and safe handling of cargo. Henry Villard, Esq., is president, and Capt. K. Van Oterendorp agent and general superintendent; office 210 Battery street.

OCCIDENTAL AND ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP COMPANY .- This company has been in active operation between San Francisco and China and Japan since June, 1875. They dispatchi one of their steamers about the middle of every month, carrying the United States mails. Its equipment consists of the Gælic, Oceanic and Belgic, three large, well-equipped vessels, of first-class build, affording excellent accommodations, and almost perfect safety to the sea- faring public. This line is operated by a company of some of the most reliable and worthy business men of this city.

THE CALIFORNIA AND MEXICAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY dispatches a vessel upon the 3d of each month for Magdalena Bay, Cape St. Lucas, Mazatlan, La Paz and Guaymas. This line carries the Mexican mails and Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express, and is engaged exclusively in the Mexican Coast trade.

In addition, there are plying from the city to various points on the coast and in our river and bay trade the following : For Eel River and Coos Bay, Oregon, steamer Arcata; for Eureka, Hookton and Arcata, steamers Humboldt and Los Angeles; for San Buenaventura and way ports, steamer Constantine; for Sacramento, the steamers Enterprise and Julia form daily lines, leaving the Washington Street Wharf at 4 P. M. The Sacramento trade also includes the steamers San Joaquin, Reform, and Pride of the River. The steamers City of Stockton, Alice Garratt, Centennial, Tulare, and Mary Garratt form a daily line to Stockton, and smaller steamers ply between Napa, Petaluma, Antioch, Marysville, and intermediate points, con- necting them with the city.

Ferries.

THE OAKLAND FERRY, at the foot of Market street, leaves every half hour for Oakland, from 6:10 A. M., until 7 P. M. The next boat leaves at 8:10; the next, 9:20; the next, 10:30; and the last at 11:45. Trips are also made via the Creek Route, boats leaving at 5:40, 6:30, 7:20, 8:15, 9:15, 10:15 and 11:15 A. M., and 12:15, 1:15, 2:25, 3:15, 4:15, 5:15 and 6:15 P. M. The average number of passengers crossing from Oakland daily during 1879, was fifteen thou- sand two hundred and forty; it is estimated that fully twenty thousand cross on Sundays. Fare, fifteen cents each way; round-trip tickets, on Sundays, twenty-five cents. Commuta- tion tickets, good for one trip, each way, per day, for one monthi, are sold at $3. The follow- ing statistics concerning the travel on this ferry will prove quite interesting : Number of trips, 1873, two millions six hundred and fifty-five thousand six hundred and seventy-one; 1874, three millions one hundred and ninety.two thousand nine hundred and four; 1875, four millions twenty-eight thousand three hundred and ten; 1876, four millions nine hundred and nine thousand nine hundred and sixty; 1877, five millions five hundred and seventy thousand five hundred and fifty-five; 1878, five millions seven hundred and fifty-four thousand six hun- dred and two; 1879, five millions five hundred and sixty-two thousand eight hundred and eiglity-nine. The company's slips and buildings are located at the foot of Market street, upon

SAN FRANCISCO LAUNDRY, EDDY ST., West of Fillmore Street OFFICE, 33 GEARY ST.

Steinway Hall, GRAY'S MUSIC STORE, 117 Post St.

J. MACDONOUGH,

IMPORTER OF AND DEALER IN COAL AND PIG IRON, 41 Market Street, corner Spear.

PROGRESS OF THE CITY.

the line of water front adopted by the Board of Harbor Commissioners. The buildings are conveniently arranged, and contain waiting and refreshment rooms, ticket offices, baggage and express rooms, for the accommodation of passengers awaiting the ferries. This connects with all trains of the Central Pacafic Railroad.

THE SAN QUENTIN FERRY is at the foot of Market street. Four trips are made daily, boats leaving at 9:20 and 11:40 A. M., and at 2:15 and 4:45 P. M., connecting with the North Pacific Coast Railroad for San Rafael and Duncan's Mills.

SAUCELITO FERRY .- The landing of these ferry steamers is at the foot of Market street. Four round trips are made daily. About three thousand passengers are carried daily. Con- nection is made with the North Pacific Coast Railroad Co., for San Rafael, Duncan's Mills, etc. Boats leave as follows : 8:45 and 10:30 A. M., and 3:15 and 5:15 P. M. An extra trip is made on Mondays, leaving the wharf at 7:00 A. M.

BERKELEY FERRY .- A boat leaves San Francisco daily (Sundays excepted) at 3:30 P. M. Time, forty-five minutes.

THE ALAMEDA FERRY has its landing at the foot of Market street, immediately adjoining and southeast of the Oakland Ferry landing. Boats leave at 5:30, 6:40, 7:45, 9:00 and 10:30 A. M., and 12:00 M., 1:30, 4:00, 5:15, 6:30 and 8:30 P. M. The trip requires twenty-five minutes. This ferry is run by the South Pacific Coast Railroad Company.

Water Front and Harbor Improvements.

The Board of Engineers appointed by the Harbor Commissioners under the provisions of the Act of the Legislature of 1875-6, have established a new line of water front, which begins two hundred feet seaward from the northern prolongation of the Presidio Reservation, and extends in an easterly and southerly direction upon straight lines, in such manner as to approach as near as practicable the extreme outer projections of the water front, established by Act of 1851, to a point near the intersection of Second and Berry streets, and thence to continue southerly upon straight lines in such manner as to approach as near as practicable the extreme outer projections of the water-line front, established by the Board of State Tide Land Commissioners, to the southern boundary of the City and County of San Francisco. An im- portant feature of the readjustment of the water front is that it will afford a new thoroughfare, two hundred feet in width, extending in straight lines from point to point along the water front, and affording easy access to all parts of it. Distances will be very materially shortened. The new line provides for free entrance to China, Central, India, South and Dry Dock Basins. The following is the estimate of costs of the new line, including the expense of dredging a channel sixty feet wide and twenty feet deep, filling it with large stone, filling the thorough- fare with small stone and earth, planking the roadway, and constructing a wharf fifty-one feet wide, to serve as a facing to the sea wall : From Chestnut to Harrison street, 7,000 feet, $2,357,886; from Chestnut to Powell street, 3,170 feet, $844,800; from Harrison to the foot of Second street, 3,080 feet, $1,156,400. Total distance, 13,250 feet; total cost, $4,359,086.

During the past year, the receipts from all sources for the Harbor Fund have been $708,184 94. Expenditures, $433,814 07; turned in to State Treasury, $274,370 87. Of the expenditures, $137,378 39 have been devoted to permanent improvement, $3,948 84 to the purchase of dredges and steam tugs, $27,182 16 to urgent repairs, $107,091 87 to sea wall account, and the remainder to maintenance and contingent expenses.

Work contemplated in China Basin has been delayed by questions on the part of property owners as to the right of the Board to enter China Basin. The matter is now before the Supreme Court, and if favorably decided, important and extensive improvements will be imme- diately undertaken, the effect of which will be to afford a vast increase of accommodations to our lumbermen.

Work under three separate contracts is now in progress, covering the contemplated bulk- head at North Beach, from Stockton to Lombard streets. For the first thousand feet the gross price is about $145,000. The second thousand feet has been let at forty-six cents per cubic yard for the rock work, and twenty cents for earth, and $20,000 additional for wharf; the third thousand feet, for sixty-five cents per cubic yard for rock work, and twenty-five cents for eartlı, with $20,000 additional for wharf. An additional section of six hundred and twenty-five feet has also been let, extending from the westerly end of section one to the westerly line of Powell street, at fifty three cents per cubic yard for rock work, and twenty- four and nine hundredths cents for earth, with $14,800 additional for wharf. A section of one thousand feet between Lombard and Filbert streets will be let at an early date. Kearny street has been filled in from the shore-line to the bulkhead, at a cost of $11, 975.

Water Supply.

THE SPRING' VALLEY WATER WORKS draw their principal supply at present from the Peninsula, where they control the water-shed of thirty-nine square miles, which supplics their three storage reservoirs, namely : the Pilarcitos, the San Andreas, and the Crystal Springs. They are located at a sufficiently high altitude to supply all parts of the city by gravitation. These three reservoirs together have a storage capacity of over fifteen thousand

J. GUNDLACH & CO. Growers of and Dealers in FINE WINES. Corner Market and Second Streets.

D. HICKS & CO., Paper-rulers and Blank-book Manufacturers, San Francisco.

Dixon & Bernstein, Show Case Manuf's, 250 Market St.

THE CONTINENTAL OIL & TRANSPORTATION CO.,

GENERAL OFFICE 120 & 122 Front.

SAN FRANCISCO DIRECTORY.

million gallons. They can and will be increased to forty-six thousand million gallons, by building the lower Crystal Springs dam. The water from these reservoirs is conducted, by means of two thirty-inch plate-iron pipes, into the Lake Honda and the College Hill reservoirs, respectively. The former holds thirty-three million gallons, and the latter fifteen million gallons. These two reservoirs again feed the five smaller distributing reservoirs in San Fran- cisco, viz : Market Street, Russian Hill, Francisco Street, Clay Street, and Brannan Street Reservoirs, all of which have a capacity of more than sixty million gallons. The water from these distributing reservoirs is furnished to the inhabitants of San Francisco through a system of cast-iron pipes, laid in the streets, nearly one hundred and seventy miles in length, varying in diameter from twenty-two inches to three inches. The Company also obtain from Lobos Creek, by means of an aqueduct and pumping works at Black Point, two million gallons daily. It owns additional water rights relating to the coast streams above and below Spanishtown, which will enable it to utilize a water-shed of sixty square miles. It has also acquired Cala- veras Valley, which controls two hundred and fifty square miles of water-shed, and is the next nearest source of supply to San Francisco that exists. It has facilities readily adapting it to the construction of reservoirs that will contain forty thousand million gallons. From these Calaveras reservoirs the water will be conducted by an aqueduct, consisting of two miles of tunnel, twenty-two miles of pipe, and about twenty-four miles of open aqueduct, to Crystal Springs and San Andreas Reservoirs ; independent pipe lines will convey the water from there to the city reservoirs. When the entire works are developed as proposed, the Spring Valley Water Works will have a storage capacity aggregating eighty-six thousand million gallons, and fed from a total water-shed of about three hundred and fifty square miles ; all of which, when developed, will give an average yield of more than two hundred million gallons daily-which, according to the amount consumed in Liverpool, England, viz: fourteen and one-half gallons per capita, will be enough to supply near fourteen million inhabitants. The Company is also prepared, in case of any exigency requiring additional supplies, to pump water from Lake Merced to the extent of five million gallons per day.

Exhaustive surveys, looking to the building of water works to be owned by the city, by Colonel Mendell, of the United States Engineer Corps, under the direction of the Board of Water Commissioners created by the act of the Legislature of 1876, were made in 1876 and 1877. A number of different schemes were proposed and examined, having their sources in the Sierra Nevada, several of which were highly approved by the public; but after an ex- penditure of near one hundred thousand dollars in examinations, etc., the enquiry was abandoned. Overtures were made for the purchase by the city of the Spring Valley Water Works, which were offered for $11,800,000, which being deemed too large a sum, the purchase was not made. For a number of years the proposition has been entertained of purchasing Lake Merced, and by pumping, supply a portion of the city. The price fixed was $15,000, - 000. This was agreed upon under Act of the Legislature passed in 1876, known as the " Rogers bill," but before the sale was consummated the law was repealed by the Legislature in January, 1880. Under the New Constitution the Municipal authorities have the power to regulate the rates for water and to assess property for a portion, thus reducing the rates to consumers.

Public Squares and Gardens.

There are twenty-two public parks, or squares, in this city, varying in size from two hundred feet to the great Ocean Park of one thousand and thirteen acres. Ocean, or Golden Gate Park, lies in the northwestern portion of the city, bordering on the ocean. It is fifty-six blocks long and nine blocks wide-or three miles long and a half mile wide. A beautiful avenue, or drive, about three-quarters of a mile long and one hundred yards wide, leads from the city proper to the park. There are seven lakelets in this park; also arbors, grottoes, mounds, rustic benches, etc., which gives it rather a picturesque and romantic appearance. Up to June 30, 1877, the Park Commissioners had received from all sources $499,941 09, of which $486,249 47 had been expended, leaving a eash balance of $13,691 62. From June 30, 1877, to June 30, 1878, the receipts from various sources were $75,182 38; balance from previous year, $13,691 62-SSS,874 00. Expenditures, $57,210 38. Balance June 30, 1878, $31,663 62. From June 30, 1878, to June 30, 1879, the receipts have been as follows : From taxes, $45,419 77; from Police Court fines, $600; from Pound fees, $91; from sale of old sacks, $34; from sale of iron pipe, $125 20; sale of disabled horses, $75 25; and $2,000 transferred from the General Fund-making a total since their last report of $48,345 22, with balance on hand at that date, $31,663 62-$80,008 84.

The amount expended during the past year is $74,762 78, leaving a cash balance on hand of $5,246 06. Since its organization, the Board of Park Commissioners has disbursed $618,222 63, all of which is represented by actual work performed on the grounds in its charge, and for the purchase of material and merchandise employed in the work. The Legislature of 1876 authorized the Board of Supervisors to make annual appropriations of $15,000 from the General Fund, and an annual tax levy of one and one-half cent upon each one hundred dollars for its maintenance. Early in the fiscal ycar ending June 30, 1878, a special appropriation from the General Fund of $10,000, and an additional levy of one

MULLER THE LEADING OPTICIAN,

135 MONTGOMERY ST., Near Bush, opp. Occidental.

JONAS J. MORRISON,

Lumber Dealer, Nv. E. cor. Mission and Spear Sts., has large Lumber Sheds filled with well seasoned Lumber.

PROGRESS OF THE CITY.

per cent. (making a total levy for Park purposes of two and one-half per cent. ) was made by the Board of Supervisors. A subsequent order, however, revoked the direct appropria- tion and reduced the levy to two per cent. As a consequence, works of improvement during the year were discontinued, and force employed only to the extent necessary for maintenance, except in the case of the conservatory, built during the year, for which purpose the special appropriation of $40,000 by the Legislature was made. The gross amount of expenditure above set forth includes the expenses for fencing Buena Vista and Mountain Lake Parks, making large plantations in the former, and the expense of the preliminary topographical surveys for Golden Gate Park. Deducting these, and there remains actually expended upon the Park, in the six and one-half years since the work was begun, $570,642 52. Of this amount, about $185,000 is chargeable to maintenance, $20,000 to work horses, rolling stock, tools, etc., the remainder, $366,879 74, being chargeable to direct improvement.

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Langley's San Francisco directory for the year commencing 1880, Part 8

Author: Publication date: 1880 Publisher: San Francisco : Francis, Valentine & Co. Number of Pages: 1214

Author:
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: San Francisco : Francis, Valentine & Co.
Number of Pages: 1214