Show J H U BARLOWS LETTER tells low how san francisco ts Is being re rebuilt built and what an important coast city she Is editor clipper in my last letter latter I 1 promised you a fow few lines on several topics of interest to I 1 me and I 1 trust to others but before I 1 leave san francisco I 1 desire to give your readers a glimpse of the wonderful wondern til growth of the city of courage and its transition into the city of destiny 1 I 1 never saw san F francisco ran cisco bo be I 1 foro fore the great fire of april 1900 but viewing it today and noting tho the wonderful growth of sky sd scrapers now being and seeing coing sev several oral hundred already finished f from rom ton to twenty three thre 0 stories high goes to show a p person peron er that tile the citizens of san francisco ran cisco in particular and california in general are certainly a courageous sot sob the statistics resented presented herewith proclaim the fact act that tile the city has loat bolt none of ts former prestige as tho the great mm commercial mercial center of the pacific and make safe the pronh isy that the years to come will idd dd to its supremely mecy those who saw situ san francisco in mediately af after for the big fl alre roof of opril 1006 1906 beheld a vast expanse anse of blackened landscape blotted hero here and there with founds of debris and tottering valls vails today they may view vow rom one of the many sightly lills instead of devastation the ahli ahito 0 walls of stately edifices lie he scars of tiro fire all but obliterated d the streets alive with the raffle of commerce and miles of locks crowded with the shipping if f the world well may they narvel that the hands of men have done so much in such t i brief space of time building has proceeded oded at a prodigious ious speed structures or offices stores hotels apart nent ent ho houses U ses homes theatres theartres the atres hurches hur chos clubs and factories lave been reared on a moro more am ambitious I 1 I 1 scale tind and witt mention to architectural correct less than at any time in its his ory before the fire never before did san francisio 0 o possess such accommodations n the way of office buildings and hotels as it has naw there are 50 hotels in the now new city and hey contain a total of suites and rooms the st rancis francis the largest hotel in tho the nty ity has rooms and will have 1000 when the second large ad ilion carries its front clear to post ost street the now new palace will have booms and suites the fair finont bont has the continental Is s a high class european hotel located in the heart of the business less district in jill all the hotels of the city can accomma late guests that means that san francisco ahree bree years after the greatest ire in history is capable of hous ng tile the largest national political religious elig ious or fraternal convention hat our country could send san francisco has a population conservatively 0 estimated s t 1 in a t e d of bout real estate sales during the three years since tho the tire fire have mounted amounted to more than 77 real estate sales made between april 1908 and april 1909 reached a total of OIL the city maintains its record as tile the lowest mortgaged city in the united states the total of moraga mortgages cs for tile the last three years being 0 only T tho h e re releases leases of mortgages for 1 the same period of time have boon estimated at building operations since the disaster have reached the record breaking 0 figure of building 0 contracts entered into 4 between april 1908 and april 1909 amount to the bank clearings for the ear 1908 1008 showed a total busi less ess of and for 1909 it was much greater despite tho the largo large sums spoilt spent in construction tho the savings bank deposits for the year 1009 amounted to moro more than tho the assessment of roal real estate and improvements for the year 1908 amounted to the estimated actual value of this real estate and improvements has boon placed at the estimated actual value of land and por per capita for 1908 was lla the assessed valuation of real and personal property reached to bo be continued |