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STATISTICAL REVIEW
Name of city, San Francisco.
Slogan or sub-phrase. "Hub of Western Industry, Trade and Commerce."
Form of government, combined City and County, Board of Supervisors.
Population, 634,536 (1940 U. S .- official).
Native white population : 441,583 (1930). (Latest available.) Foreign born: White population-153,386.
Total white population-594,969 = 93.8 per cent of total population.
Colored population: Negro, 3803. Other races: 35,622.
White population of age: Males, 53 per cent; females, 47 per cent.
Native born population (white) is 69.6 per cent of whole population.
Predominating nationalities in city are American, Italian, German, Irish, English, Canadian and Chinese.
Area, 44.82 square miles.
Altitude, sea level to 965 feet.
Average temperature, 56.1°. Daily mean maximum, 62.6°. Daily mean minimum, 50.2°.
Parks: 49, and 80 recreational units. Total acreage, 4579. Assessed valuation, $984,089,120; all property, with $3.937 tax rate (1939-1940).
City's funded debt is $148,161,400 (June 30, 1940).
Financial: There are twenty-one banks, 16 under State supervision and 5 national banks, with total deposits of $2,- 831,760,755 (1939) ; resources, $3,112,173,475 (1939); debits to individual accounts, $9,631,228,000 (1939); clearings, $7,350,- 410,000 (1939); time deposits, $1,514,591,894 (1939); demand deposits, $1,317,168,861 (1939).
Post office receipts of $9,936,027 (1939).
Telephones in service, 290,990 (1939).
Churches number approximately 300.
Building and construction: Value of building permits, $24,950,593, number 8488 (1939).
Real estate transfers total 8859, valued at $60,468,263 (1939).
Industry: Number of establishments, 2030 (1937); em- ploying 39,082 total wage-earners, paying wages of $52,466,- 752, and having products valued at $334,930,684 (1937, U. S. Mfrs. Census).
Trade: Territory (retail) serves 1,893,169 people within the trading area covering San Francisco Metropolitan Area, jobbing territory serves 3,305,178 people within a radius of 250 miles. Many firms distribute to the 11 Western States, as San Francisco is Western headquarters for 1300 firms of national distribution.
Hotels: There are approximately 1500 hotels, with total accommodations for approximately 75,000 persons. Newest hotel was built in 1930.
Converging in San Francisco are 7 major transcontinental rail routes, 177 steamship lines, more than 30 truck lines, 4 transcontinental bus services, 3 transcontinental air transport routes, and the famous transpacific Clipper fleet.
Amusements: There are approximately 78 theaters, with a total seating capacity of approximately 83,357 persons. Largest theater or auditorium seats about 12,000 persons.
Hospitals number 31.
Education: Number of schools, 181 public, including 26 high schools and a number of parochial and diocesan schools. Number of pupils enrolled in public schools, 112,898, in pri- vate schools, 14,000 (est.).
There are 520,000 volumes in the libraries of the city.
City Statistics: Total street mileage, 900 miles, with 750 miles paved. Miles of gas mains laid, 1005; of sewers, 97 miles, main trunk; street railway and motor coach lines, 378.35 miles. Capacity of water works (municipal), 64,126,- 000,000 gallons.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Prepared by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce)
HISTORICAL
San Francisco is located centrally on the coast in 37° 47' 22-25" N. 1.atitude and 122° 25' 40-76" W. Longitude and situated on a peninsula bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, the north and cast by the Bay of San Francisco and on the south by wooded hills and fertile valleys. Its eleva- tion extends from sea level to 965 feet. The city covers an area of about 44.82 square miles and is built principally ou hills. The population as of January 1, 1940, amounted to 634,536.
The San Francisco Bay Region was discovered in July, 1769, by Don Gaspar de Portola's soldiers, who were seek- ing the Monterey Bay. In 1775 Don Manuel Ayala sailed the first ship through the Golden Gate into the San Francisco Bay. The San Carlos was the name of the vessel.
Years before, however, Sir Francis Drake brought his vessel, the Golden Hind, close to the Golden Gate and ran her ashore at what is now known as Drake's Bay. This was in 1579 and the first religious service in the English language was held on the Pacific Coast by the chaplain of the Golden Hind.
In 1776 a land expedition commanded by Colonel Juan Bautista de Anza arrived on the San Francisco peninsula and established the Presidio and the Mission Dolores. In 1777 Padre Junipero Serra, father of the California missions, ar- rived in San Francisco. The settlement was known as Yerba Buena until 1847, when it became San Francisco.
In 1806 the Russians attempted to establish themselves in and about San Francisco. They established a settlement at Fort Ross, near Santa Rosa, but after a few years gave it up, disposing of all movable fixtures and arms to Capt. John A. Sutter of Sacramento.
In 1846 war was declared by the United States on Mexico and on July 9, 1848, Capt. John B. Montgomery of the United States Navy arrived in the sloop-of-war "Portsmouth" and raised the American flag in what is now Portsmouth Square; thus without great excitement San Francisco passed from Spanish to Mexican and finally American rule.
San Francisco's greatest excitement perhaps came with the discovery of gold in 1848. People rushed here by every known mode of transportation and in thousands. The popu- lation increased steadily and the port became the most im- portant on the Pacific Coast, which position it has steadily maintained.
Because of the number of lawless individuals during the fifties, the citizens organized the Vigilance Committee and after a short campaign succeeded in ridding the city of the law breakers.
GOVERNMENT
San Francisco has a combined City and County Govern- ment functioning as a Municipal Corporation, which began January 8, 1932, to operate under a new Charter (Freehold- ers). Under this new Charter the Legislative Powers are vested in a Board of Supervisors consisting of 11 members. The Administrative Powers are vested in a Mayor and a Chief Administrative Officer, the latter appointed by the
Mayor. The People elect the Mayor, Assessor, Treasurer, Sheriff, Public Defender, Supervisors, District Attorney, City Attorney, Municipal and Superior Court Judges and the members of the Board of Education.
The salary of the Mayor is $10,000 per year and the major Departments under him include the Police, Fire, Park, Rec- reation, and Library, the Art Commission, the Utilities Com- mission, Civil Service Commission, and City Planning Com- mission.
The Chief Administrative Officer, appointed by the Mayor, receives a salary of $12,000 a year and has under him the following: Departments of Finance and Records, Purchasing, Real Estate, Department of Public Works, Department of Electricity, Street Traffic Advisory Board, Department of Public Health, County Welfare Department, Coroner's Of- fice, Horticultural Inspection Department, and Department of Weights and Measures.
The Controller is responsible to the Mayor and is ap- pointed by him subject to the confirmation and approval of the Board of Supervisors.
HARBOR AND COMMERCE
Centered in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco is an important port of general commerce, handling a large and valuable domestic and foreign trade. It is the main gate- way of commerce for the vast territory of the Central Pacific Coast Area and Intermountain States. The Bay extends from the Golden Gate to the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers on the northeast, and to a point near San Jose on the south, covering an area of 450 square miles. The deep-water commerce enters San Francisco Bay through the Golden Gate, which is but one mile wide, thus affording nat- ural protection from the ocean to the waters of the San Fran- cisco Bay. To this has been added the most comprehensive docking and berthing facilities, rail and freight connections, modern and well-equipped warehouses, etc. San Francisco harbor has 17.5 miles of berthing space; there are 195.62 acres of pier and wharf area, with a capacity of 2,030,600 tons of cargo; 43 modern piers; facilities to dock the largest ves- sels; seven drydocks: 160 spur tracks; 66 miles of harbor trackage connecting piers and warehouses; car capacity for 3600 cars; 42 cranes, derricks and aerials.
The harbor is controlled by the State of California and is governed by a board of harbor commissioners appointed by the Governor. Of the 43 piers, most of them are assigned to steamship companies having their own fleets and operat- ing their own schedules. San Francisco harbor facilities are valued at $100,000,000.
The water-borne commerce of San Francisco ranked sec- ond in value of all ports in the United States, and outranking all other Pacific Coast ports by nearly $456,000,000 in 1938.
Arrivals and departures of vessels show the following in- creases :
Registered
Arrivals
Tonnage Departures
Registered Tonnage 15,730.364
1936
5016
4981
1939
4847
15,801,076 16,534,049
4950
16,887,651
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Exports during 1939 amounted to. .$119,518,716
Imports during 1939 amounted to. .$ 59,578,157
The principal exports by value are bulk oil, dricd and canned fruits, cotton, machine parts, barley, fresh fruits, auto parts, canned fish and lead.
The principal imports are coffee, copra, Chinese wood oil, paper, burlap and whiskey.
The 1939 report of the U. S. Army Engineers shows the distribution of the cargo tonnage, domestic and foreign, dur- ing 1938 as follows:
Total tonnage, San Francisco Bay. 29,091.375 Tons
Foreign tonnage 4,788,711
Inland waterway tonnage
7,076,850 ,
Domestic Coastwise and Intercoastal
tonnage
17,225,814
Besides the movement of commodities by water, there is a large rail traffic in San Francisco; during 1939 it reached 186,920 carloadings and unloadings, not including less-than- carload business.
San Francisco is also the ocean port for the great inland empire of California, 500 miles in length, 50 miles wide and containing 16,100,000 acres of irrigable land, 5,000,000 acres of which is under irrigation.
San Francisco is the port of call for 177 steamship lines.
TRANSPORTATION
Converging in San Francisco are seven major transcon- tinental rail routes, one hundred seventy-seven steamship lines, more than thirty truck lines, four transcontinental bus services, three transcontinental air transport routes, and the famous transpacific Clipper fleet.
Today San Francisco is the terminus of four Class I rail- roads and a number of short lines. These railroads thor- oughly blanket California and neighboring States, and by means of seven major transcontinental routes with conve- nient connections, provide fast, dependable service to and from all parts of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Passenger trains second to none are operated to and from the city.
All railroads connect with the State Belt Railroad serving the San Francisco waterfront and many industries, and ab- sorb the switching charges on line haul carload traffic. Re- ciprocal arrangements between all 'lines permit efficient hand- ling of cars within the switching limits at rates ranging from 37c to 69c per ton. Trap car privileges are available. Be- tween all points in the San Francisco switching limits and those of Oakland and Richmond the rate is 77c per ton, minimum charge $16.50 per car.
Overnight freight service is provided to Los Angeles, to most points in the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys, to numerous points along the coast, to southern Oregon and western Nevada. A greater proportion of the territory west of the Rocky Mountains is reached to advantage from San Francisco than from any other Pacific Coast port.
Store door pick-up and delivery for less than carload traf- fic is available between San Francisco and many points in Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Idaho and Oregon.
Intercoastal water rates bring San Francisco as close to the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts as Chicago and northern Miss- issippi Valley points. Sailings to Atlantic Coast ports average 40 per month; to Gulf ports 8 per monthi.
Departures for the Hawaiian Islands average 20 per month.
Over fifty steamship lines operate between San Francisco and foreign ports providing frequent passenger and freight
service to and from the major ports, in the Orient, Aus- tralia, New Zealand, the South Sea Islands, both coasts of Central and South America, Northern and Southern Europe and certain ports in Africa. Round-the-world liners leave San Francisco monthly. San Francisco is the home port of some of the most luxurious passenger lines operating on the Pacific Coast.
Coastwise lines furnish frequent service between San Francisco and other ports in California, Oregon, Washing- ton, and British Columbia. A huge fleet of inland water car- riers ranging from palatial passenger steamers to humble barges navigate San Francisco Bay and waters tributary thereto, carrying an immense tonnage to and from the ultra- modern docks of the city.
San Francisco is the focal point of two great bridges, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, a link in both U. S. Highways No. 40 and No. 50, and the Golden Gate Bridge, a link in U. S. Highway 101.
Over thirty common carrier truck lines provide scheduled services between San Francisco and points in California and neighboring states. In addition, more than 600 truck opera- tors having headquarters or agencies in San Francisco hold intrastate contract carrier, radial common carrier, or city carrier permits from the Railroad Commission of California or interstate contract carrier permits from the Interstate Commerce Commission. All rates and services are subject to regulation by these Commissions.
Bus lines which are also under regulation radiate north, east and south providing fast, commodious passenger service between San Francisco and all important points in California and the eleven Western States. There are also four trans- continental bus services. In addition, there are numerous sightseeing tours operating between San Francisco and neighboring points of interest. Busses are always available for charter parties.
Three modern air terminals in the San Francisco Bay Area are within thirty minutes of the heart of San Francisco. The recently enlarged Municipal Airport is the focal point of transcontinental and north/south services by the most mod- ern transport planes. San Francisco is the eastern terminus for the famous clippers providing service to and from the Hawaiian Islands, Phillipine Islands and the Orient. Ser- vice to and from Australia and New Zealand is in process of development.
MANUFACTURES
The manufacturing industries in San Francisco comprise an important part of the city's activities, leading in number of employees and amount of payroll nine major activities in San Francisco. One-quarter of all the people engaged in industry and business in San Francisco are employed by the manufacturing industries. The 1937 annual payroll amounted to $52,466,752 as reported by the United States Census for San Francisco.
The value of manufactures in 1937 was $334,930,684, com- pared to $287,178,844 reported in 1935 by the United States Census, or an increase of $47,751,840 in the two years.
Manufacturing Activity in San Francisco Reported by U. S. Census
1937 (a) 2,030
1935
Number of Establishments . .
1,959
Wage-Earners
39,082
34,399
Wages
$52,466,752
$40,946,670
Cost of Materials
$187,975,890
$159,145,695
Value of Mannfactures
$334,930,684
$287,178,844
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1933 1931
Number of Establishments ..
1,683
2,263
Wage-Earners
30,691
34,502
Wages
$33,107,340
$47,321,255
Cost of Materials.
$116,025,328 $159,667,076
Value of Manufactures
. $221,325,675
$318,131,977
The ten manufacturing classifications reported with high- est value of product in San Francisco in the 1937 U. S. Census, latest classifications available arc:
Printing and Publishing .$31,976,980
Bread and Bakery Products
17,486,370
Meat Packing, Wholesale
13,177,684
Ship and Boat Building
9,034,382
Bags, Other than Paper.
7,580,066
Canned and Dried Fruits and Vegetables.
7,460,876
Mattresses, Bed Springs.
5,831,208
Boxes, Paper 5,758,924
Confectionery
5,638,901
Paints and Varnishes
5,559,002
San Francisco-Oakland Industrial Area*
The annual production of the 3,261 manufacturing estab- lishments in this area totaled $1,052,353,000, the expenditures for materials totaled $695,538,000, and the number of wage- earners amounted to 88,414 or 27 per establishment, accord- ing to the 1937 Biennial Census of Manufactures prelimi- nary reports.
Actually, in the two years between 1935 and 1937, in the San Francisco Industrial Area, production increased $226, 735,000, and payrolls rose $31,643,000, in the manufacturing industries.
1937 (a)
1935
Number of Establishments .. 3,261
3,133
Wage-Earners
88,414
76,963
Wages
$122,916,300
$91,273,731
Cost of Materials. $695,532,112
$533,329,610
Value of Products.
$1,052,353,275
$825,618,381
1933
1931
Number of Establishments ..
2,649
3,468
Wage-Earners
66,313
69,923
Wages
$71,108,819
$95,058,473
Cost of Materials
$366,261,604
$447,831,445
Value of Products
$598,290,815
$734,474,927
The ten manufacturing classifications reported with the highest value of products in the San Francisco Industrial Area in the preliminary 1937 U. S. Census amounted to $345,- 978,000, or 33.0 per cent of the area total. They are:
Petroleum Refining $97,862,802
Canned and Dried Fruits and Vegetables.
49,920,161
Meat Packing
42,549,932
Printing and Publishing.
41,117,577
Bread and Bakery Products
26,790,547
Tin Cans and Other Tinware
24,145,407
Paints and Varnishes 23,016,152
Steel Works ..
22,407,847
Electrical Machinery Apparatus and Sup- plies
15,323,072
Ship and Boat Building. 14,933,287
Many of the large key industries in the San Francisco Metropolitan Area, with their plants outside the corporate city limits, have their headquarters in San Francisco, from which they conduct their finances, purchases, and sales.
RETAIL TRADE
Retail trade, one of the nine major activities in San Fran- cisco, ranks second in number of employees and third in amount of payroll.
Trade at retail in San Francisco for the year 1939
*Includes Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo Counties.
(a) Preliminary.
amounted to $383,554,000. Tlic final 1939 U. S. Census re- ports reveal 11,339 retail stores in San Francisco.
The per capita sales for San Francisco led all other im- portant counties in California in 1935. The retail sales per capita in San Francisco amounted to $443, in Los Angeles to $373, and in the State to $360.
FINANCE
San Francisco is the financial and insurance capital of the West. The expeditious handling of financial transactions of all kinds has helped to maintain sound industrial and trade relations in San Francisco and throughout the West.
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is the head- quarters of the Twelfth Federal Reserve District, which ranked third in volume of business during 1938, measured by bank debits.
Thirteen hundred firms of national reputation have es- tablished their Western headquarters in San Francisco.
The San Francisco Stock Exchange, one of the major regional stock exchanges in the United States, is maintained in San Francisco. There is also the San Francisco Mining Exchange.
Six of the 21 banks in San Francisco are among the first 50 banks of the nation. Four banks are branch systems oper- ating a total of 594 branches throughout the State. Of the 21 banks in San Francisco, 16 are under State supervision. Of these 16, 3 are commercial and savings, 1 strictly savings, 1 savings and trust, and 2 title insurance companies operat- ing trust departments. There are 5 national banks, all of which operate trust departments. The trust departments are under State supervision.
San Francisco is the insurance center of the West. More than 8 billion dollars of life insurance is in force in the West. More than 700 authorized insurance companies are doing business in California. The premiums and assessments of all groups amounted to $388,548,223 in 1939.
Federal Reserve District Debits-1939
New York
$186,419,019,000
Chicago
59,954,953,000
San Francisco
33,314,620,000
Cleveland
26,722,612,000
Boston
23,402,909,000
Philadelphia 22,012,949,000
Debits to Individual Accounts-1939
New York City .$171,381,763,000
Chicago
34,966,347,000
Philadelphia
15,813,654,000
Boston
14,906,965,000
Los Angeles
10,037,022,000
San Francisco
9.631,228,000
S. F. Exchange Transactions
Stock
Curb
1934
$ 67,796,052
$12,894,718
1935
118,423,735
24,138,949
1936
171,538,186
32,586,604
1937
144,196,470
27,477,753
1938
90,477,407
(a)
1939
99,452,140
(a)
(a) Consolidated with Stock Exchange 1938.
S. F. Bank Clearings
S. F. Bank Debits
1934. $5,475,193,000
$ 8,180,813,000
1935.
6,468,835,000
9,567,839.000
1936. 7,230,152,000
10,637,827,000
1937 7,913,846,000
10,992,930,000
1938 7,052,520,000
9,482,219,000
1939
7,350,410,000
9,631,228,000
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Bank Clearings-1939
New York City $165,914,000,000
Philadelphia
19,823,000,000
Chicago
15.556,000,000
Boston
11,516,000,000
San Francisco
7,350,000,000
Pittsburgh
6,119,000,000
Building and Loan Association Assets
There were eight companies with their head offices in San Francisco in December, 1938.
December, 1933
$103,669,348
December, 1934
85,847,277
December, 1935
71,405,597
December, 1936
65,624,752
December, 1937
58,545,357
December, 1938
56,231,969
Deposits and Resources-San Francisco Banks
Time Deposits
Demand Deposits
12-31-33
.$1,166,939,647
$ 620,349,553
12-31-34.
1,277,069,921
777,981,190
12-31-35
1,410,138,552
926,635,190
12-31-36
1,401,261,546
1,175,048,500
12-31-37
1,455,331,436
1,102,258,890
12-31-38
1,515,423,628
1,179,609,061
12-31-39
1,514,591,894
1,317,168,861
Total Deposits
Resources
12-31-33
$1,787,289,200
$2,103,114,513
12-31-34.
2,055,051,873
2,375,700,359
12-31-35
2,336,773,742
2,599,364,528
12-31-36.
2,576,310,046
2,848,811,490
12-31-37.
2,557,590,326
2,836,353,780
12-31-38
2,695,132,689
2,982,907,202
12-31-39
2,831,760,755
3,112,173,475
Postal Receipts
1934.
$8,407,264
1937
$9,661,319
1935
8,690,861
1938.
9,386,480
1936.
9,345,838
1939
9,939,027
Number of Individual Income Tax Returns
1933
. 69,086
1936.
92,240
1934
. 69,358
1937.
96,850
1935.
.83,348
1938
98,488
PUBLIC BUILDINGS
First comes the group in the Civic Center, declared by the Duke of Connaught to be the finest thing of its kind in the world. The group consists: (1) City Hall, of classic de- sign, surmounted by an immense dome, higher than the dome of the Capitol at Washington. Cost, $4,000,000. (2) Exposition Auditorium, seating capacity of 12,000 in the main auditorium, with numerous small halls; cost, $2,000,- 000. (3) San Francisco Public Library; cost, $1,500,000. (4) State Building; cost, $1,000,000. (5) War Memorial group of buildings, as a part of Civic Center, cost, $4,000,000, con- sisting of civic opera house, American Legion halls, etc. A Federal Building, cost, $3,000,000.
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, in Lincoln Park, overlooking the Golden Gate, is a replica of the Palace of the Legion of Honor in Paris. It was presented to the city. The structure cost $2,000,000. United States Mint, lo- cated at Market street and Duboce avenue, built in 1937; Post Office Building, corner of Seventh and Mission streets; Ferry Building, at the foot of Market street on the water- front, built by the State in 1896 at a cost of $1,000,000. It is 659 feet long and 156 feet wide, and in addition to serving as a ferryboat terminal, contains many State offices. The Cus- toms House and United States Appraiser's Building will represent an expenditure of more than $4,000,000. In Golden Gate Park are located the De Young Memorial Museum,
Academy of Sciences, Steinhart Aquarium, Museum of An- thropology. At Kearny and Washington streets is the Hall of Justice, erected in 1910 at a cost of $1,000,000, containing police courts and the criminal department of the superior court. The Golden Gate Bridge cost $35,000,000, was com- pleted early in 1937 and opened to traffic in May, 1937, and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, at a cost of $78,- 000,000, was opened to vehicular traffic November 12, 1936. San Francisco East Bay Terminal (at Mission and First streets) is a $2,000,000 structure opened to interurban train service January 15, 1939. The $2,730,000 Rincon Annex Post Office was opened in 1940.
PARKS
San Francisco is noted for its beautiful and extensive parks. There are 49 parks and 80 recreational units, with a total acreage of 4579, others are under development. In addition to the municipal parks, the several government res- ervations, the largest of which is the Presidio, comprising 1542 acres, all go toward augmenting the aggregate area of the city parks. The area given does not include the numerous golf courses in and about the city. More than $15,000,000 has been expended on municipal parks since 1870. All of San Francisco's parks are "man-made." Originally only sand dunes marked the spots where today are gardens of rarest flowers, shrubs and giant trees. Even lakes, streams, water- falls, hills, valleys and dales were worked out by man, to say nothing of the miles of walks, bridle paths and boulevards traversing the parks. Golden Gate Park is one of the world's most noted playgrounds. It comprises 1013 acres and is about 3 miles long and a half-mile wide, extending from Stanyan street on the east to the Pacific Ocean on the west and lies in the midst of San Francisco's choice residential districts.
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