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Pumphlets, Way Bills,
Magazines, Envelopes, Tux Bills, Billets,
Lectures, Bonds,
Books. Briefs.
AT No. 536 Clay Street, over Pacific Market.
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PROGRESS OF THE CITY.
CITY THE City of San Francisco was, for the first time, incorporated by the Legislature in May, 1850, the organization of the County having been effected in the month previous, by the election of a Sheriff and other officers, thus establishing two distinct systems of government. The Consolida- tion Act took effect on the first day of July, 1856. Under its stringent provisions our municipal affairs have been administered with energy and fidelity, EN PAZ AFIERRO and a thorough reform has resulted. The enor- EN GUERRA mous outlay consequent on the dual system of government has been entirely abolished or seri- ously reduced, while the checks upon lavish expenditure were so well devised as to defy evasion, and the contraction of debts has been inhibited. The financial history of all this is sufficiently indicated in the exhibit* of the Aggregated Annual Expendi- tures of the City and County of San Francisco from 1850 to 1869-since the first legislative organization of the government-exclusive of the sums paid in liquidation of the principal and interest of the bonded debts :
Assessment and Rates of Taxation from 1850 to 1869.
PARTICULAR CLASS OF ASSESSMENTS.
FISCAL YEARS.
Total Annual Rates.
Real Estate.
Improvements.
Person'l Prop'ty.
Total Annual Assessments.
1850-51.
$2 00
$16,819,051
In Personal.
$4,772,160
$21,621,214
1851-52.
4 10
11,141,463
In Personal.
2,875,4.10
14,016,903
1852-53.
4 411
15,676,356
In Personal.
2,805,381
18,481,737
1853-54.
3 881
17,889,850
$6,158,300
4,852,000
28,900,150
1854-55.
3 851
19,765,285
9,159,935
5,837,607
34,762,827
1855-56.
3 855-6
18,607,800
8,394,925
5,073,847
32,076,572
1856-57.
2 30
17,827,617
8,345,667
4,194,970
30,368,254
1857-58.
2 30
15,576,545
7,394.296
12,426,335
35,397,176
1858-59.
2 45
13,554,565
5,946,585
11,224,800
30,725,950
1859-60.
3 169-10
14,172,235
6,523,985
9,323,002
30,019,222
1860-61.
2 85
25,283,685
In Real.
10,683,814
35,967,499
1861-62.
2 87
31,871,897
In Real.
9,973,222
41,845,119
1862-63.
2 741
37,016,102
In Real.
29,540,554
66,556,656
1864-65.
2 98
47,292,903
In Real.
33,443,262
80,736,165
1865-66.
3 12
49,137,312
In Real.
39,129.145
88.266,457
1866-67
3 10
53,485,421
In Real.
43,214,976
96,700,397
1867-68
3 00
58,207,862
In Real.
51,152,964
109,360,826
IS68-69.
3 05
63,631,721
In Real.
42,782,308
106,414,029
* For table of Municipal Expenditures from 1850 to 1865, see SAN FRANCISCO DIRECTORY for 1866, page 10.
E. H. JONES & CO., 116 Sansom Street, Laces and Embroideries.
Our Eastern friends will find the best Native Wines at M. S. WHITING & CO'S, 219 Bush St., Cosmopolitan Hotel Block. See next leaf.
34,002,627
77,119,165
1863-64.
2 10
43,116,538
In Real.
REDINGTON, AUSTETTER & CO., exclusive Agents for Drake's Fiantation Bitters.
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The amount absolutely collected on is much less than the aggregate valuations for the last two years. In 1865-6 it was $22,730,719 personal against $39,775,500 assessed, and $45,436,924 real estate against $49,138,027 assessed, in all $68,167,643 collected on against $88,913,527 assessed. For the year 1868-9 the delinquent list amounted to $438,619, on an assessed value of $14,380,000, of which latter amount nearly $12,000,000 were assessed as taxes on mortgages, now in litigation before the Supreme Court of the State.
Municipal Expenditures for 1865-6 1866-7, 1867-8, and 1868-9.
YEARS.
Current Expenses.
Permanent Improv'm'ts.
Interest.
Reduction of Debt.
Old Claims.
TOTAL.
1865-6.
$916,934 45
$90,995 90,
$256,198 38
$154,055 00
$19,097 47 $1,437,281 2
1866-7
939,285 05
188,073 75
213,353 06
354,686 82
71.166 66
1,766,565 3
1867-8.
1,215,925 00
165,559 24
200,644 07
206,457 76
1,788,586 0
1868-9.
1,937,925 41
373,050 83.
148,233 81
2,459,210 05
From the total of $2,459,210.05 should be deducted the sums received for fees by the different county officers and other moneys of the same character as the expendi- tures, amounting in the aggregate to $386,117.81, which leaves as the actual munici- pal expenses, exclusive of the Street Department, $2,073,092.24.
Bonded Debt June 30th, 1869.
ANNUAL INTEREST.
Issued in
By the
Payable in
Pr cent
Payable in
Annual Sinking Fund.
Bonds in Circulation.
1851.
City
1871
10
San Francisco ..
None.
$1,188,600 00
1855.
City.
1875
6
New York.
About $23,000 00 ..
217,000 00
1858.
City and County
1888
6
San Francisco ..
About 47,000 00 ..
1,031,000 00
1860.
School Department
1870
10
New York.
5,000 00 .-
53,500 00
1861.
School Department ..
1870
10
New York.
2,500 00 ..
16,000 00
1862-3.
City and County for San
José Railroad ..
1877-8
7
San Francisco ..
About
23,000 00 ..
230,500 00
1863.
City and Co. City Slip ..
1883
7
San Francisco ¿
Abont
47,000 00 ..
28,000 00
1864.
Central Pacific R. R. Co
1894
7
San Francisco ..
Commences in 1873
400,000 00
1865.
Western Pacific R.R. Co
1895
7
San Francisco ..
Commences in 1873
250,000 00
1866-7 ..
School Department ..
1881
7
San Francisco ..
About 16,000 00 ..
227,000 00
1867.
Judgment.
1887
7
San Francisco ..
Abont 14,000 00 ..
317,000 00
Totals.
Abont $177,500 00.1
$1,709,100 00
The amount in the Sinking Funds for the redemption of these bonds, July 1st, 1869, was $1,298,234.40, of which $1,235,815.57 is to be applied to the bonds due in 1871. These amounts reduce the bonded debt to $3,410,865.60.
Annual Revenue for 1865-6, 1866-7, 1867-8, and 1868-9 .*
Years.
Taxes.
State and Co. Licenses.
Municipal Licenses.
Sale of Bonds.
Other Sources.
Total.
State.
1865-6 ..
$1,361,876 26
$89,253 25
$28,799 25
$61,050 00
$83,429 30 $1,624.408 06
$944,812 35
1866-7 ..
1,482,476 31
93,901 50
31.762 80
125.965 38
107,647 97 1,841,753 96
987,105 77
1867-8 ..
1,509,162 50
99,484 74
38.895 90
47,500 00
271,263 78
1,826,306 88
1,095,586 71
1868-9 ..
1,786,129 43
100,454 69|
52,560 50
507,040 67 2,446,185 29| 1,044,835 20
* For table of Revenue collected In San Francisco from 1850 to 1465, sce SAN FRANCISCO DIRECTORY for 1366, page 10.
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PACIFIC COAST BUSINESS DIRECTORY circulates throughout British Columbia.
1864.
City and Co. City Slip ..
1884
7
San Francisco $
750,500 00
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PROGRESS OF THE CITY.
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National Census, 1860.
From the official returns deposited at the office of the County Clerk. Compiled expressly for the SAN FRANCISCO DIRECTORY, 1861-62.
WHITE MALES.
WHITE FEMALES.
CHINESE.
Under 1 year.
1,730
Under 1 year 1,563
66
2
739
3
"
730
3
6
677
4
627
4
600
"
5
66
615
5
551
COLORED.
Total nnder 5.
4,509
Total under 5.
4,130
Between 5 and 10.
1,842
Between 5 and 10.
1,831
10 .4
20.
2,915
10
20
3,198
20 “ 30.
10,184
20
30
6,226
66
40 € 50
2,581
60
40
50
1,119
White females, all ages .. 20,610
6.
50 € 60
812
50
.
60.
481
66
60 € 70
162
66
60
66
70.
122
53,073
66
70 66 80
36
70
80
52
Chinese, male and female. 2,616
66
80
90
7
Colored, male and female. 1,146
Total white males. 32,463
Total white females.
20,610
Total pop. City and Co. 56,835
Population, 1861 .*
Believing that the National Census of the City and County of San Francisco, com- pleted during the year 1860, did not truly represent the number of our population, and at the urgent solicitation of numerous patrons of this work, the following exhibit has been carefully prepared from the returns of the different canvassers engaged in collecting information for the present volume. The plan adopted to obtain the neces- sary data was the same as that so successfully carried into effect in the months of April and May, 1859, the results of which were published in the "San Francisco Directory of that year, as follows: "To arrange and classify each sex in three divis- ions, viz : MALES : First Class-the head of each family and members thereof over twenty-one years of age; Second Class-those between five and twenty-one; Third Class-those under five years of age. FEMALES: First Class-those over eighteen years of age; Second Class-those between five and eighteen; Third Class-those under five years of age. Also, to collect such other information as would furnish an approximation of the different elements composing our population not included in the foregoing classification :"
White males over 21 years, names in Register of the present volume (a). .27,100
Residents floating, names not obtained (b) 3,400
Average number boarders, etc., at the hotels, boarding houses, etc., in addition to the regular boarders (c) 4,100
In the Hospitals. 481
U. S. soldiers at the Forts (d). 800
"
Engaged upon water crafts, ocean, bay, and river, claiming resi- dence in this city (e). 2,500
Foreigners, French, Spanish, etc., names not registered (f). 1,950
66
Between 5 and 21. 5,919
Under 5. 6,803
Total white males 53,053
* From the SAN FRANCISCO DIRECTORY, 1861-2.
(a) The number of names in the Directory 1861-2 exceeds thirty thousand, of which nearly three thousand are com- posed of non-resident partners of firms doing business in this city, females, Chinese, and colored.
b) This is from actual count, and is composed of a class of population who have no permanent place of abode.
(c) This estimate has been arrived at by careful investigation. Number of hotels and lodging-houses in the city, 340. (d) The number at Fort Point, Alcatraces, and Presidio in June last.
(e) This number is composed of persons sailing from this port who have shipped from this city.
(f ) This number has been obtained from actual enumeration.
E. H. JONES & CO., 116 Sansom Street, Fancy Dry Goods
M. S. WHITING & CO., supply invalids, apothecaries, and families, with pure Wines and unadulterated Liquors. See noxt leaf.
RECAPITULATION.
30 4
40
9,390
66
30
40
3,44L
White males, all ages- 32,463
Total whites
80
90.
2
2
6 6
777
Males of all ages .... 2,168 Females of all ages .. 448 Total Chinese . - 2,616
Males of all ages. 711
Females of all ages .. 435
Total colored 1,146
66
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Females over 18
14,783
66 Names not registered 500
Between 5 and 18 4,821
66
Under 5. 5,136
Total white females
25,240
Chinese males over 21.
2,400
66 Females over 18. 520
Males under 21 and females under 18. 210
Total Chinese
3,130
Colored males over 21 800
Under 18 250
66
Females over 18 600
66 Under 18 150
Total colored 1,800
Total population of the City and County of San Francisco
83,223
Population, July, 1868.
The following table, compiled from the most reliable data, is presented as an esti- mate of the population of San Francisco, July 1st, 1868, and in directing attention thereto, it is believed to be as fair an approximation as can be made without an official and accurate canvass :
White males over twenty-one, names in the Directory, 1868. 52,300
Females over eighteen, estimated .. 30,000
66 Males under twenty-one and females under eighteen, estimated 45,000
Males, names refused, and foreigners, estimated. 5,000
Chinese, male and female 4,000
Colored, male and female. 2,650
Total permanent population 138,950
To which should be added a large element of our population known as "floating," which consists of : Ist. Transient boarders, etc., at hotels, boarding-houses, etc. 2d. Soldiers at the fortifications in the harbor. 3d. Persons engaged in navigating the bay, who claim this city as their residence. 4th. A large number of persons who have no permanent place of abode, together amounting to about. 9,000
Total population 147,950
Population, September, 1869.
The following figures, compiled from the investigations made during the canvass for the present volume, are presented as a fair approximation of the population of this city :
White males over twenty-one, names in the present volume. .59,500
66 Females over eighteen, estimated . 34,300
Males under twenty-one and females under eighteen, estimated* :52,000
66 Males, names refused, and foreigners, estimated. 4,000
Chinese, male and female t. 8,600
Colored, male and female. 2,850
Total permanent population. 161,250
To which should be added a large element of our population known as " floating," which consists of : Ist. Transient boarders, etc., at hotels, boarding-houses, etc .. 2d. Soldiers at the fortifications in the harbor. 3d. Persons engaged in navigating the bay, who claim this city as their residence. 4th. A large number of persons who have no perma- nent place of abode, together amounting to about. 9,000
Total population 170,250
* The School Census, July, 1869, (see page 38) gives the number of children under 15 years of age at 41,400, an Increase of six per cent on the returns of 1868, while the census of the previous year exhibits sixteen per cent increase for the year 1867-8. Again, the number of children reported as attending school during the year ending June 30th, 1869, 18 13.634, a decrease of Il from the previous year. Believing these figures to be less than the actual number, we have taken the returns of 1868 as a basis for our estimate and added thereto for 1869 the ratio of increase of the year 1868, and for the number of males and females between 15 and 21 not Included in the School Census, we have added twelve per cent, the whole aggregating 52,000.
t The Secretary of the Chinese Protective Soclety reports (see Evening Bulletin, November 25th, 1869) the number of Chinese in this elty as follows : Males over 21, 14,000; females, 2,230; children, including cripples, aged, etc., 750. Total, 17.000. These figures are so much in excess of the estimates based on our own investigations, that a reference thereto in this connexion is deemed necessary.
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PROGRESS OF THE CITY.
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IMPROVEMENTS.
There are three epochs in the history of San Francisco that will be of value to future gene- ratious as marking its rise and progress, viz : the year of its settlement by the monks of the Order of St. Francis de Assisi, in the year 1776 ; the conquest of California by the United States in 1846 ; and the discovery of gold in 1848. But two decades have been added to the cycle of time since the first indomitable gold-seekers landed on the sand-hills of Yerba Buena, having sacrificed the comforts of home and made the tedious and boisterous passage around " the Horn" to wring from the rocks and drag from the rivers the omnipotent god-Gold. Many have succeeded, but sad has been the fate of others. Still, from a mere camp of tents, has arisen a city which is now the tenth in population in the United States.
The great bulk of improvements during the past year have been made, and are now being made, south of Market Street; but this is principally owing to the extension of Montgomery Street, at the same time, quite a number of private residences have been built in the northern section of the city, principally by mechanics and working-men, who own the lots and have had buildings erected thereon as homesteads ; and it is to be hoped that others will follow their ex ample. California, Pine, and Bush streets can, perhaps, boast of the most splended architectural monuments that have been erected during the past few years. In all parts of the city are to be seen old houses being rejuvenated, frame fronts being taken out to give place to brick and mastic, all tending to show the steady march of the
PROSPERITY OF THE CITY .- The inauguration of a magnificent line of steamships between China and San Francisco has added another link to the chain that is surely drawing the wealth of the Orient to the shores of California, to be distributed throughout the States of our Re- public by means of that most gigantic undertaking of the age the Central and Union Pacific Railroads. On these roads the traveler can have all the comforts of a hotel throughout the vast expanse of prairie that intervenes between California and Missouri. Who would have dreamed of spanning time in five days from San Francisco to St. Louis, on the day that Commodore Stockton raised the stars and stripes over the old adobe at Monterey ? Another project for connecting San Francisco with the East, by way of New Orleans, is the Louisiana and l'ehuan- tepec Railroad through the State of Teliuantepec, Mexico. This route would save five days between the above mentioned points. The termini of this road are Tehuantepec on the Pacific and Minatitlan on the Gulf. The passage from San Francisco to Tehuantepec by steamer will occupy eight days-across the Isthmus, one day-and from Minatitlan to New Orleans, two and a half days. However, the difference of comfort between the two steamship routes will probably always be in favor of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's line.
COMMERCIAL MATTERS .- The following figures, compiled from the Alta California of October 6, 1869, show the extent of the principal commercial transactions of the port of San Francisco for the nine months ending September 30, 1869, and compare them with those of a correspond- ing period of the previous year :
The exports of treasure in the year 1869, were $36,829,744.21. In 1868, the exports were $35,618,833.73, showing an increase in 1869 of $1,210,910.48. The total gross value of ex- ports of merchandise to foreign and domestic ports in 1869, was $15,312,654; in 1868, $16,186,245-showing a decrease in 1869 of $873,591. The aggregate exports of merchandise and treasure compare thus : in 1869, $45,801,421 ; in 1868, $45,244,349 ; increase in 1869 $557,072. The excess of arrivals over departures of passengers (not including British Colum- bia or Pacific domestic ports) was in 1869, 29,345 ; in 1868, the excess of arrivals over depar- tures, was 22,655-showing a difference in favor of 1869, of 6,690. The total number of vessels which arrived in port during the nine months of 1869, was 2,721, and their tonnage, 900,904 ; in 1868, 2,457 vessels arrived, their tonnage being 806,221. Increase in number of vessels in 1869, 264; increase in number of tons, 94,683. The number of vessels which left port in 1869, was 2,691, measuring 929,349 tons; in 1868, 2,444 vessels, measuring 803,782 tons. Increase in number of vessels in 1869, 247 ; in tonnage, 125,567 tons. The total value of domestic products, alone, (exclusive of treasure) exported during the above named period in 1869, was $12,265,764 ; in 1868, $12,583,810-showing a decrease in 1869, of $318,046.
REAL ESTATE .- Through the kindness of Charles D. Carter, Esq., we have been furnished with a comprehensive abstract of the transactions in the Real Estate Market of the City and Connty of San Francisco, showing the total number and value of sales for each of the twelve months, from August 1st, 1868, to July 31st, 1869, inclusive. In 1868, there were in August six hundred and
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three sales, valuc $2,583,371 ; in September, six hundred and thirty-two sales, value $2,805,395 ; in October, six hundred and sixteen sales, value $2,511,702; in November, four hundred and six sales, value $1,613,796 ; in December, four hundred and eighty sales, valne $1,606,759. In 1869, January, four hundred and nine-two sales, value $2,716,823 ; in February, six hnn- dredand sixteen sales, value $2,905,807 ; in March, nine hundred and fourteen sales, value $4,721,273 ; in April, one thousand and one sales, value $4,173,005 ; in May, ten hun- dred and thirty-four sales, value $4,222,237 ; in June, five hundred and fifty-eight sales, value $2,262,529 ; in July, three hundred and sixty-two sales, value $1,489,693. Total, seven thousand seven hundred and eighteen sales, value $33.612,390. The total num- ber sales made for the year ending July 1st, 1868, were six thousand two hundred and ninety ; these sales had a value of $23,383,533. The sales for the year ending July, 1867, numbered five thousand two hundred and thirteen, and had a total value of $15,383,196 ; the increase in value in two years has, therefore, been over one hundred per cent. The city land transactions were very brisk in August and September of 1868, and January, February, and March, of 1869. The earthquake of October, 1868, caused a break in the activity of the sales of that month, and also in November and December ; but did not, as was generally antici- pated, shake prices, and with January, 1869, the market recovered its activity and sales kept on increasing in number and value until March, when the highest transactions were reached. The transfers of that month reached nine hundred and fourteen, and had a value of $4,721,273. The sales of April and May had each a value of over $4,000,000. In June, however, owing to great monetary stringency and a drain of money from us, chiefly to pay for excessive imports and the duties upon them, the sales fell off to $2,262,529. The market has since been dull. It was generally anticipated that as prices had advanced rapidly, and, as many thought, unjusti- fiably, in the spring some reduction in rates would occur when the summer dullness and tight- ness of the market had become so marked ; these expectations have not been realized, however prices have been extremely well sustained thus far.
The completion of the Pacific Railroad did not bring with it the real estate activity ex- pected by many. We were not among the number of those who had these expectations ; we expected a short lull in city land transfers when the Pacific Railroad was completed, because our people have a habit of discouraging every beneficial project. We anticipated the benefits of the transcontinental railroad some months before it was finished.
The present activity in the extension of railroad facilities over nearly every part of the State, must have a very beneficial effect upon the San Francisco Real Estate Market. The most im- portant road now being built is that to connect the main line, the Central Pacific) with Oregon. This road will run through the Sacramento Valley for almost its most entire length, passing in its course through one of the richest agricultural sections in the United States. The managers of the Central Pacific Railroad are building this line, which is a guarantee that it will be speedily completed. The prosperity of San Francisco will be increased by this road. There is little danger of real estate taking a downward turn, so long as internal improvements are being pushed forward as they are in San Francisco.
STREETS AND HIGHWAYS .- The following information and statistics, collated from the vol- uminous report of Mr. M. C. Smith, the efficient Superintendent of Streets and Highways, will show at a glance the steady improvement of the city, and serve as a reference in future years. The total length of sewers constructed from July 1st, 1856, to July Ist, 1868, was 207,284 feet ; and from July 1st, 1868, to July 1st, 1869, 48,537 feet, giving a total of 255,822 feet of sewerage in the city. There are altogether of main sewers over fifty (50) miles, and over one hundred (100) miles of publie streets. The total cost of street work from July Ist, 1856, to July 1st, 1868, amounted to $6,945,773.84, and from July Ist, 1868. to July Ist, 1869, to $1,566,312.66, giving a net cost of $8,512,086.40. These figures show the vast amount of money and labor it has taken to make San Francisco what it is this day-a city sprung from chaos in two decades. The subjoined table will show how the work goes on, with the large amount paid for the same :
RECAPITULATION FROM JULY, 1868, TO JULY, 1869.
WORK.
Measurement.
Amount.
COST.
Grading.
Cubic yards.
2,147,460
$623,752 97
Macadamizing.
Square feet.
3,061,728
203,066 03
Brick Sewers.
Lineal feet.
36,650
365.598 36
Redwood Sewers.
Lineal feet.
11,907
50,097 80
Paving.
Square feet
Nicholson
47,807 §
47,424 65
Planking
One thousand feet.
3,042,108
114,502 94
Sidewalks
Front feet.
87,023
134,073 45
Curbs ..
Lineal feet.
19,463
21,640 72
Crosswalks
Lineal feet
4,106
6,115 64
§ Cobble ..
129,774 }
EDWARD BOSQUI & CO., Printers, Leidesdorff st., from Commercial to Clay.
C. P. VAN SCHAACK & CO., Nos. 712, 714 and 716, Kearny Street.
PROGRESS OF THE CITY.
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Thus, it will be seen, that the enormous sum of $1,566,312.56 has been expended within one year in improving the streets and sewers of the city. The cost for such work in the correspond- ing period of 1856-7 was $47,433. Think of this, ye Pioneers !
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