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Show S. P. OPEIIED AS WOULD PORT' irn75 August 5, 148th aAjiniTer-sary aAjiniTer-sary of Entrance of First Vessel in Golden Gate BAM rRANCIRCO. Aur. 11. To! It thp.on huifirwd rorty-slhth nlvsrsarr of ths openlnir ot ths Ooldiia Oats to commerotal ship pins;. On Aoiuit ft. me, ths little lit-tle paekst tn Carlos, low day out from San Bias, Mexico, tha first ahlp to arrlv in tha harbof with a commercial rars;o, dropped andiwr In ths bay bars and opened ths Golden Oat to tha commercial commer-cial marts of th world, ftlncs that tlma San Francisco haa darned tha nam af tba Port of All Fleas" and today tha fore I en commerce passing pass-ing la and out of tha protect In a headlands of the Oats ascrssatea approximately half a bill. on dollars dol-lars annually, according to marl-time marl-time statistics, Thr-to-fifths of worWd population pop-ulation of l,ftO.w0d,Otd parsons today to-day consider Ban Francisco tha as t away to America for foods torn-In torn-In In and tha portal to South and Central America, tha Pacific shore mnA tha Aalatle coatlnsat for Broods are valued at $e,OOO.0iO, represent repre-sent Inar the actual coat of construction. construc-tion. Work la new under way on the China basin, the latest aMi-ilon aMi-ilon to the atate'a harbor facile-twee, facile-twee, he basin, la addition to lta piers, will have a si -story terminal termi-nal in the heart of the transcontinental transconti-nental railroad terminate. The cost thla sfructure will be fS.40a.00t). In order to expedite the China basin work, a temporary wooden structure struc-ture may be used pendina; completion comple-tion ot the permanent buildn. The pie re fo the China basin will be Sot) feet wide and from 400 aq leoe feet Ion-- The mill lone being nnent for Mr asp ah l pa. blsaer docks, ereater comfort for paaeenrers, greater speed and oaf sty have dealt the deathblow te the ok) time clipper : ship aad la rapidly drlklnr the! wlndfammer from the s-aa. When Preaident Hardin if reviewed the merchant fleet la San s'ranclsco bay July tl last he saw the last of them. -The Ions", fiddle bowed ottnper, packlnr s;r eat clouds of sail, haa become a phantom ship. The "0 iory of the Seas. " famoua clipper that firet dropped anchor here in 1471. "ninety-five days out from New Tork." and her sister aMpa have pad from the seven seas. Todnr. the Pleeel enpfne. the wireteea, electrt elevators for pas-aenaera pas-aenaera and ether modern rnven-ttnae rnven-ttnae have revolutioataed tha ahtp-p.nar ahtp-p.nar world. poins; according to leadlnc Baa Francleao eaport men. t nllka must of the leading; seaports sea-ports of the failed . States. Kan Pranclaco'a harbor front Is owned and operated by the public. Th- title to the property ta In the atate of California and the harbor affaire-are administered by a board ef harbor commissioners. While the commerce) In and out of San Francisco Fran-cisco bay la handled alone; four actions ac-tions of the bay frontage, moot of he oceangoing Teasels ara docked along the an Francisco waterfront. water-front. The other three sections are the Oakland bay frontage, mora than two miles long, exclusive of the Oakland harbor, wblra ta highly high-ly developed along the Oakland and Alameda shoes: the ah ore from Richmond to Point San Pablo, four mle long; the Maria county's Sau- j aaltto-Tlhuron frontage of approst- I mately two mllea. Ran Franclaroe pir and wharf facllltiee extend five miles, giving Ban Fran c.ace bay a total waer terminal frontage of thirteen mllea exclunive of the Oakland harbor. Tn addition, there are from eighty to ntn-ty miles of frontage capable capa-ble ef blneT developed into wharf -aire factntt-s. and aoudh Is being accomplished la the conversion of tidal flata Into deep water front ares I Thy harbor officials. In addition to operating the harbor, the stal owns and opera tee the Stat Belt railroad, which cortne-'tn with all transcontinental railroads and all PIT. I Rxoruelve of land values, nomf-I nomf-I nahy figured at f&s.eooftAA, the state owned harbor facllltiea today |