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Wheat C. D. .
.xxxii
Williams H. F.
XXXVi
Rice Mills.
India Rice Mill ..
Xxi
Rolling Mills.
Pacific Rolling Mill .... Ixvii Roofers.
Forderer Joseph F
... xlii
Saddlery.
Johnson J. C. & Co ..... xxvi
Safes.
Leavitt C. H.
...
.XXXix
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Savings and Loan So- cieties.
German Savings and Loan Society . ... xxii Hibernia Savings and Loan Society ... xxvii San Francisco Savings Union xix
Saw Filers.
Mignola John & Co .....
.lix
Screens.
California Wire Works ... xiv
Shipping and For- warding.
Dickson, DeWolf & Co .... 1x
Hepburn W. A ..
.liii
Low C. Adolphe & Co .. xxviii
Macondray & Co ...
.XX
Rodgers, Meyer & Co .. xxxvi
Starr & Co ..
liii
Welch & Co ..
.xli
Williams, Blanchard &
Co. xxi
Shipsmiths.
Crockard Hugh ... . .. xxix
Shirt Manufacturers.
Beamish P., register
of names, bottom
lines and back cover
Bullock & Jones, regis-
ter of names, bottom lines
Shot Manufacturers.
Selby Smelting and Lead Co .. .xxiv
Silver Platers.
Martell John ..
.xlii
Silver Ware.
Anderson & Randolph,
reg. of names, top lines
Barrett & Sherwood ....... ii Braverman & Levy, front cover Seamans Job M., back cover
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Smelting Works. Selby Smelting and Lead Čo ... .xxiv
Spices.
Bernard Charles .. .
..... xxiv
Montealegre J. G ...... xxxiii
Stair Builders.
Jesse & Drew.
.liv
McGuire Arthur.
lv
Stationers. .
Crocker H. S. & Co., back cover
Steam Cookers.
Hale Dr. (Boston, Mass).lxvi
Steam and Gas Fit- tings.
Pancoast & Maule (Phil-
adelphia) ............ ]xvi
Steamship Lines.
Hamburg
American
Packet Co ...
xlviii
Oregon S. S. Co ..
xi
Pacific Mail S. S. Co ...... iv
Royal Mail.
.1v
Steel Castings.
Chester Steel Castings Co. (Philadelphia). . lxvii
Steering Wheels.
Bragg Robert ......
.. lvi
Stencil Cutters.
Truworthy F. M ...
. . . . . 1x
Wood George M. & Co .... xli
Stock Boards.
S. F. Stock and Exchange 950
Stoves, etc.
Montague W. W. & Co.,
register of names .... 1040
Ray W. S. & Co .......... lvi
Sugar Refineries.
Bay
xlviii and lvi
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Syrups.
McMillan & Kester ....... xvi
Tailors' Trimmings. Baumgarten A .... back cover
Tanners.
O'Donnell Cornelius .... xlvi
Tea Importers.
Low C. Adolphe & Co .. xxviii Macondray & Co ... .XX Taber, Harker & Co. . . . XXV
Tents.
Neville & Co ....... . .. xxxvii
Tin and Sheet Iron Workers.
Montague W. W. & Co., register of names .... 1040
Turners.
Jesse & Drew.
liv
Jewell A. M. & Co ...... .li
McGuire Arthur .....
.1v
McKinnie Murray ....
.lvii
Wetherbee George M .... lvii
Twines.
Neville & Co .....
.. xxxvii
Umbrella-Adjustable Waterhouse & Lester ..... Ixi
Undertakers.
Gray N. & Co.
. . . . . . . . . . . xlv
Massey & Yung .......... xlvi
Wagon Materials.
Waterhouse & Lester ...... ]xi White Bros ..... xxi
Watches and Jewelry.
Anderson & Randolph, reg. of names. top lines Barrett & Sherwood ........ ii Braverman & Levy . . front cover Seamans Job M., back cover
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Water Pipe.
Garratt W. T. & Co .. xxx Jewell A. M. & Co ..... Montague W. W. & Co .. 1 Risdon Iron and Loco- motive Works .. ..... Selby Thomas H. & Co .. I
Water Tanks.
Bodwell Harry H. .xx Tustin W. I .. . XX
Water Wheels.
Leffel's Improved Double Turbine. .. I
Weather Strips. Hallidie A. S.
Whips.
Johnson J. C. & Co ..... X)
Wind Mill Manufs
Bodwell Harry H ..... .. xx Tustin W. I. . . . . . . . . .. XXJ
Wines and Liquors
Anduran C. & Co. Daneri F. & Co .... Kohler & Frohling
front cov
McMillan & Kester ...... x
Wire Workers.
California Wire Works ... I Hallidie A. S ..
Wood Carvers.
McKinnie Murray ...
Woolen Mills.
Mission ..
San Francisco Pioneer ... L
Wool Presses.
Price Press Co ..... .. XxxV.
Wrought Iron Pipe
Pancoast & Maule, (Philadelphia) ... ... Ix
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF BUSINESS CARDS.
SEE BUSINESS DIRECTORY, PAGES 935-1052.
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Allen William R. ... 978, 1029
Armes & Dallam. (2), 951,
955, 975, 1022, 1046
Asphaltum and Mastic
Roofing Co. ...... .. 936
Austin B. C ..
.. 1045
Baker & Hamilton .... 935, 987
Bandmann, Nielsen & Co. 1012, 1030
Barker & Snow
.1029
Barnard's Business College,
962
Basler George A .. 1024
Bell Telephone Co. .1045
Berry & Place. 1010
Boesch Emile. .994
Bonney O ..
1050
Brader Henry 1006
Burnham J. W. & Co .. 955, 978
California Brass Works ... 948
California ElectricalWorks
942, (2), 971, 1021, 1037, 1050
California Jewelry Fac-
tory. .994
Capp C. S. & Co. .1033
Clute & Loveland
950
Cook A. O. Mrs .. 985 Cook II. N. .. 939, 942, 989
Cook & Ellis.
.942
Hopper S. E ..
.979
Hubbard Samuel ..
.. 1045
Huntington, Hopkins & Co., 987
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Denniston E. G ... .1037
Detrick E. & Co ... (2) 939, 1045
Duncan George & Co ...... 936 Dunham, Carrigan & Co .. 987
Egerton Henry C ... 1019, 1039 Enterprise Mill. .968
Espina's Writing Academy 962 Florence Sewing Machine Co. .1036
Frankenthal & Co. .967
Getleson & Landis. .995
Giant Powder Co. .1030
Gilbert & Moore ......
(2), 978
Giller C. L.
.968, 973
Gladding, McBean & Co .. 968
Goldsmith W. E. & Son .. 973 Gordon James E. & Co ... 987
Greenebaum, Helbing & Co. 950
Greenebaum & Co .. 1012
Gregory H. P. & Co ... 989
Heynemann & Co .... 955, 970
Hill Samuel .. .1036 Machine .. .. 955
Pioneer Paper Mill.
.1025
Will & Finck
942, 961
Hooker R. C.
950
Price M.
.966
Williams Charles.
95!
Robitscheck H. .1039 Wolff & Loze. 104€
Rudolf G. & Co ...
.1020
Ruffino L. J. & Co. .1010
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San
Francisco Plating
Works .. 103 San Francisco Steam Brush and Broom Factory .... 95
Schmidt M. & Co. .100 Scotchler & Gibbs .. 103 Sellers J. C ..... 105 Shepman W. E .. .103
Shreve George C. & Co 968, 993, 1037, 104
Simpson R. W ..
95
Smedberg J. R ..
97
Spaulding J. & Co.
95
Standard Shirt Co.
103
Stephens & Wilder. 93
Taylor S. P. & Co ... 102
Neustadter Brothers. ... 1037 New Home Sewing Ma- chine Co .. 1036 Thain H. W ... .1019, 103 United Carriage Co ...... 95 Wakefield S. B. & Co .... 95 Watson & Co .. 94
Weed Sewing Machine Co ... .103
Weed & Kingwell. .94 Wenzel, Rothschild &
Hadenfeldt .. 99 White Sewing Machine Co .. 1031
Yost D. Z. & Co 95€
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Degen L. P ... ... .942 Kallenberg Theodore .... 1010
King Homer S, & Co ..... 950 Lipsher George ..... 951, 1051 Macdonald D. A. & Co ... 968 Mackintosh & Bacon ..... 950 Madison & Burke ....... 1033 Marks & Reinhardt ...... 950 Marsh H. F. 966
Marwedel C. F. .1010
Marye George T. & Son .. 950 McNally & Hawkins. 979, 1029 Montague W. W. & Co .. 979, 993, 1040
Muller C
.. 1022, 1023
Murphy E. P.
.950
Nichols A. C. & Co. ...... 995 Norcross & Co ..... 1014, 1033 O'Neil Thomas ... .. 979
Pacific Lamp and Re- flector Factory ........ 994
Gundlach J. & Co ... 994, 1020 Hall Edward F. & Co .... 950 Pasquale B .. .. 975, 1033 Peerless Sewing Machine Heald's Business College.962 Hermann C ... .987 Co .. .1036 Pioneer Carpet Beating
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Cope & Davis ..
.. 950
Cunningham & Co.
... 949
Day Thomas.
978, 1029
Silk Handkerchiefs at GEO. LOOMIS', 706 to 716 Kearny St.
PROGRESS OF THE CITY
1878-79_
CURRENT HISTORY.
IN May, 1850, San Francisco was incorporated as a city. In July, 1856, the city and county governments were consolidated. The average width of the county, from bay to ocean, is four and a half miles by six and a half miles in length, from the Golden Gate to its southern line. Its entire area is 26,681 acres. The city occupies the northeast corner, and extends about three miles from east to west, by four miles from north to south. The peninsula on which the city is located SE is about thirty miles long by fifteen wide - the city and county occupying the northern end. The assessed value of property in the city and county, as shown by ORDENPAS FIERRO. the Assessor's report for 1878-9, is: Real estate, $191, - EN GUERRA 078,781; personal property, $52,298,380; total, $243, - 377,161. The expenditures for the City Government during the past fiscal year, ending June 30, 1878, was $5,125,059.72. This sum includes $103,000 for bonds redeemed during the year. The assessed value of property for the fiscal year 1877-8 was: Real estate and improvements, $191,845,560; personal, $62,894,640; total, $254,740,200. The value of property owned by the city is $13,300,000. The rate of taxation for State, county and city purposes, for 1877-8, was 1.83 ; of 1878-9, 2.24.
BONDED DEBT .- The bonds outstanding at the close of the fiscal year, June, 1878, were $4,219,500-from which should be deducted the amount of sinking fund on hand of same date, $911,373.89, exclusive of the bonds issued for the improvement of Montgomery Avenue, amounting to $1,579,000, for the payment of which the property directly benefited, valued at $60,000,000, is pledged, and those issued for the widening of Dupont Street, amounting to $1,000,000, for which the property benefited is in like manner pledged.
GENERAL PROGRESS .- The opening of the year 1878 was marked with an extraordinary depression in almost all branches of labor ; the city was thronged with a multitude of men out of employ such as it had never before known, and, for the first time in her history, organized methods of relief, and free dispensations of charity were absolutely necessary in providing food and shelter for many of her people. As an aggravation to this fact, the latter part of the year 1877 had been accompanied with the failure of several of the savings banks of the city, which by the losses incurred, as well as the feeling of general insecurity engendered, combined to render the distress and stringency widespread and universal. These together with the fact that the character of the new labor movement then in process of development in the city was not fully established, deterred capitalists, speculators and builders from any but the most conservative course. From this condition the city has slowly but steadily emerged, and in her business statistics is able at the close of 1878 to present an exhibit that will compare favorably with former years, the only department failing to respond being real estate and building im- provements, notwithstanding the anticipations held by many at the opening of the year,. that the large withdrawals of savings bank deposits would redound to the benefit of the real estate market.
The number of buildings erected shows a sharp decrease as compared with the past few years, although the general tendency towards improvement in character has been maintained. This. decrease, so far as it affects the present progress, was more apparent than real, from the fact that it was almost entirely attributable to the practical withdrawal of the various real-estate associations from building operations during the year. These associations from their inception have built in anticipation of the coming needs of the community, rather than to meet only, present wants, and as a consequence were ahead of the city's growth when the troublous times came upon us. So, when the decline in values, which has marked the history of city real estate
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during the year, were foreshadowed, they in a prudent spirit of conservatism decided to hold their hands for the time.
Important and material additions to our local railroad facilities have been made during the year, the most notable being the opening of the South Pacific Coast Narrow Gauge, which is now completed to within a few miles of Santa Cruz, and is another link in the series of roads which will in time skirt almost the entire Coast of California. By the ferries of this line additional facilities for communication with Alameda are afforded. As will be seen by the detailed reports, our street railroads are still as sanguine of the future as ever, the list of improvements and projected lines vieing with even our most prosperous years.
Our foreign trade, both in imports and exports, exceeded that of last year by twelve per cent., and a reference to the official figures shows that San Francisco is the third city in the Union in the amount of duties collected, the order being New York, Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia, etc.
In mining stocks the aggregate of transactions shows quite an advance on the figures of 1877. but it is questionable whether any benefit has been derived therefrom. Two sharp breaks ir the market have occurred, one early in the Summer, and the other caused by the unprecedented fall in Sierra Nevada, in which the inside and outside dealers have suffered alike.
Among these items of general nature, it may not be inappropriate to refer to the alacrity with which our citizens, in the midst of a comparatively sluggish year, responded to the call for aid to the afflicted regions during the prevalence of the yellow fever epidemic last Summer, the total collections reaching $125,986.44, of which $119,587. 80 was forwarded to the sufferers, the remainder, $6,398.64, being disbursed among the orphan asylums of the city. The San Francisco Benevolent Association also disbursed $13,789.18 for the relief of local distress.
Trade and Commerce.
During 1878, our merchandise exports by sea amounted to $34,155,400 ; of which $13,398,. 464 was for flour, wheat, etc., to Great Britain, and about $1,200,000 for wheat to France. The total treasure exports amounted to $34,287,293, making a total of $68,442,793. Exports of leading articles to the Eastern States by rail amounted to $22,329,671, making a gross total of $90,772,464. These figures show an increase over the exports of 1877 of $4,163,007 in mer- chandise, and a decrease of $23,466,248 in treasure. A notable feature of the year is found in the export of about one thousand car-loads of barley East by rail. Total number of vessels entered the Golden Gate during the past year from foreign and domestic eastern ports, seven hundred and nine ; total cleared, six hundred and eighty-five. Total import duties, $6,370,618, a decrease of $352,295 from 1877.
The receipt of treasure in this city in 1878, was : silver bullion, $31,288,427 ; gold dust and bars, $16,477,520 ; coin, $17,242,754, making a total value of $65,008,701, being a decrease from 1877 of $6,720,753. The total Clearing House exchanges for the year was $715,265,319 against $517,030,342 in 1877.
The arrivals of passengers by land were thirty-seven thousand five hundred and fifty-four, by sea thirteen thousand and ninety-four ; total, fifty thousand six hundred and forty-eight. The departures by land were twenty-five thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight, by sea four- teen thousand three hundred and ninety-two ; total, forty thousand three hundred and thirty, showing an increase of ten thousand three hundred and eighteen. The average increase for the last ten years is about twenty-eight thousand. The arrivals and departures from and to China and . Japan since 1867, are as follows: Arrivals, one hundred and forty-two thousand six hundred ; departures, sixty-nine thousand two hundred-net gain, seventy-three thousand four hundred.
Real Estate .*
During the year 1878 there were two thousand six hundred and ten sales of real estate, of the total value of $14,583,967. In 1877 there were three thousand and eighty-five sales, aggre- gating a total value of $18,549,991 ; a reduction in value of transfers of nearly $4,000,000, the reduction in number of sales being four hundred and seventy-five. In the general character of sales made, the same tendency which marked the transactions of the year 1877 has been observed, namely : the purchase of small estates by parties of moderate means for homestead purposes. This decrease, which may be attributed to the general depression of business and causes hereinafter mentioned, gives no promise of recovery within the coming year. If the present promise of sufficient rains for the crops of the coming season is maintained, it is prob- able no further depreciation will ensue, but with falling prices the generality of buyers are deterred from investing, and nothing but an extraordinary change in business prospects for the coming year, such as is not to be anticipated, will restore confidence to the majority of buyers, who.are only attracted by a rising market.
BUSINESS OF THE YEAR .- In the fifty-vara section three hundred and eighty-one sales, of the value of $5,088,499, were made in 1878, against four hundred and seventeen sales of the value of $5,354,097 in 1877. In the hundred-vara section, between First, Ninth, Market and Townsend Streets, two hundred and three sales, of the value of $1,411,236, were made in 1878,
*We are indebted for much of the information contained in the above article to the Real Estate Circular, pub lished by Thomas Magee, Esq.
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against two hundred and twenty-six sales of the value of $2,132,254 in 1877. In the City Slip and Water Lot section, lying between Sansom, First and the bay, Broadway and Brannan Streets, forty sales of the value of $1,019,979 were made in 1878, against forty-eight sales of the value of $1,468,053 in 1877. In the South Beach section there were eleven sales, of the value of $73,628, against nine sales of the value of $72,100 for 1877. On the Potrero there were eighty-seven sales of the value of $252,390, against one hundred and sixteen of the value of $397,446. In the Mission Addition there were eight hundred and twenty-eight sales of the value of $2,033,533, against eleven hundred and twenty-seven of the value of $3,294,611. In the Western Addition there were six hundred and three sales of the value of $4,057,419, against seven hundred and twenty-seven of the value of $4,970,829. In South San Francisco their were one hundred and eighteen sales, of the value of $165,486, against one hundred and three, of the value of $149,224 for 1877. There were two hundred and sixty-two sales of outside lands of the value of $400,644, against two hundred and eleven, of the value of $628,563 for 1877. There were seventy-five sales of tax and clouded titles, of the value of $80,253, against one hundred and one of the value of $82,814 for 1877.
It will be seen from the foregoing figures that the aggregate value of sales has fallen behind those of the previous year nearly $4,000,000; that the hundred-vara and Mission Addition have suffered most, the decrease in these two being respectively $721,018 and $1,261,078. In only one subdivision-South San Francisco-does an increase appear, and in this a fully com- mensurate increase in the number of sales would appear to justify the increased value total. It also appears that while the decrease in the number of sales has only reached about fifteen and three-tenths per cent. on the sales of 1877, the decrease in value totals is equal to twenty- one and six-tenths per cent. as against the values of 1877.
PROPERTY VALUES .- Values in all parts of the city have suffered during the year, the reduction reaching from five to twenty-five per cent. below those ruling during 1877. Unlike the depreciation which marked the year 1877, the year 1878 has shown a marked decline in the hundred-vara section. Complete stagnation has characterized the history of real estate transac- tions in the South Beach, Potrero and South San Francisco sections, while values in the choice and most desirable residence localities have been fairly maintained. As heretofore, the best residence localities are included within the district bounded by California, Market, Powell and Leavenworth streets, and that bounded by Larkin, Van Ness avenue, Clay and Turk streets. Lots in the former are held at from $250 to $400 per front foot, and in the latter at from $100 to $180. The Western Addition holds its high average values, a few sales reaching even above former' values ; in the vicinity of Eddy, Haight, Laguna, Devisadero, Tyler, McAllister and Fillmore streets, the rate remains from $100 to $130 per front foot. In the Mission Addition the reduction in values has been but slight, although the demand for investments has not kept pace with its former activity. Property in the business heart of the city we quote as last year : on the best banking and financial streets, $3,000 to $3,500 per front foot ; on the best wholesale streets, from $1,000 to $1,500, and in the best retail sections of Kearny and Market streets, $2,000 to $2,800.
The cause of the general decline in values may be traced to the high rate of taxation, coupled with low rents and vacant houses. The banks have also contributed, in some measure, by the reaction in their policy consequent upon the stringency of the year. During former prosperous years more money was loaned upon real estate than it could safely handle, creating an activity which advanced values faster than the growth of the city justified, and when the reaction came all have suffered alike.
Outlook for 1879.
The prospects for 1879 present no encouraging features over those of 1878, and every indica- ion seems to forecast a conservative year. The building associations, from the rueful experience esulting from their sanguine expectations and constructions of the past four or five years, will carcely aim at more than the preservasion of their existences intact, and speculation will carcely show its face in the operations of the coming year. It is fair to presume, however, hat there will be some recuperation in the hundred-vara section, where values have been njustifiably depreciated, and that the business of the coming year, whatever it may be, will epresent unquestioned bona fide indications of permanent investments.
Material of all characters has gotten to bed-rock prices, labor is comparatively as cheap as the ity has ever known, and money obtainable in large amounts at seven per cent. per annum, and some cases even less. These conditions may have the effect of stimulating improvements eyond the expectation which the present situation would seem to justify.
New Buildings-1878-79.
The number of new buildings erected during the year is about seven hundred and twenty- ve. Of this number forty-one are brick. Among the most prominent may be noted : the rection of the row of three-story buildings by Messrs. Conroy & O'Connor on the southeast side £ Market, between Spear and Steuart Streets, costing $100,000 ; a double three-story brick on ront, between Market and Pine; the erection of the new Dashaway Hall on the south side ¿ Post Street, near Dupont, the property being now worth $150,000; the erection of several Iditional four-story structures on the west side of Dupont in the widened portion ; two new
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markets, one the Grand Arcade on Sixth Street, and the Hayes Valley Market on the corne of Laguna and Grove Streets.
The formal completion of the Dividend Building, on the corner of Pine and Leidesdorff, and the substantial block between Davis, California and Market, are events of the year, although construction was begun in 1877, in both cases.
By far the most extensive undertaking of the year will be noted in the erection of the new St. Ignatius Church and College. This merits more than a passing notice. The structure wil front two hundred and ninety feet on Hayes, and run through to Grove, a depth of two hundred and seventy-five feet. The church front proper will stand about the middle of the block o1 Hayes, and will be flanked by two lofty spires, the elevation to the top of the cross on eacl being two hundred and seventy-five feet, the architecture of the towers being elaborate and ornamental. The order of architecture observed in the building is Doric for the first story Ionic for the second, and above and in the towers the Corinthian and Composite are observed. East of the church proper, connected therewith and running to Van Ness Avenue, is the college, consisting of two main buildings of same height with the church, and resting upor Hayes and Grove Streets, with a spacious court between the two, which will be improved as garden. The two wings are connected by spacious corridors built. adjoining the church. O1 the corner of Grove and Van Ness Avenue the first two stories will be class and lecture rooms and the two upper floors thrown into one will be finished as an exhibition hall. The capacity of the hall will be thirty-two hundred. The college will accommodate twelve hundred pupils The church will have an inside measurement of seventy-three feet to the spring of the ceiling and will accommodate two thousand five hundred people. The exterior will be covered with Portland cement. The general plan contemplates the building of a four-story commercial block on the strip one hundred and ten feet wide, lying between the church and Franklin Street to conform in general style and finish with the church and college. Eight millions of brick wil be used, and the total cost will reach $750,000. The buildings are now ready for the roof.
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