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Show an ordiance forbidding the. erection of any wooden structures below Stockton, street, perhaps below Mason or Taylor" streets, and that every one who is able. will" construct residences with steel frames. They, will be light frames and sheeted with bricks or tiles, nad Nob Hill been built with that material, the houses might hayevbeen ruined, but they would have stopped'th'e fire in, that direction. .This would be a wonderful opportunity for Mr. Carnegie and Mr. Schwab andvMr. Frick to take a hand in the work. The material for one' and two-story houses would' not be so very" costly," and every one built would give a new sense of security to all. who possessed pos-sessed it or had rooms in it. . . vVe would 'think that Senator Clark' and his brother would see in this situation an opportunity for a great work the. extension of their road! to the iron and coal mines of southern Utah; the erection erec-tion of great smelters and structural iron works. The Senator could get all the data in a day in Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, thecost of the needed works and the time necessary. nec-essary. for construction, and J. Ross Clark ,ould secure se-cure the: iron and coal. . There will have to be 60,000 houses built in San Francisco in the immediate future-A-profit of 500 on the material for each one .would be-something worth striving for. We suspect sus-pect that the finest of them will be plain on the outside, out-side, ho, cornices, no embellishments that can be 'shaken off, all the chimneys of iron above the roofs all houses fortresses, not for defense against enemies ene-mies from without, but against that old sapper and miner that creeps beneath the walls of a city and whose passing changes the face of nature, v Ships have been made nearly, secure against the tempests that sweep the sea;-theremust be& "Way "to meet this enemy under ground, save when he opens the earth and swallows cities. , 1 . . STLLL THAMES TOR HOUSES We shall expect to read, within a few days, that , the Common Council of San Francisco has passed |