| Show GOOD TIDINGS fROM OLD city is Recovering From Effects Of Earthquake and Fire and andAs andAs As Prosperous as Ever BUILDING ON IN ALL PARTS r lu III 11 10 1111 01 Note l if P I Booth rites S F Booth general or of the pas department of the UnIon Oregon Short Line and the tho Oregon Olegon Navigation conI COlli panic fit at San Fru writes nn at interesting letter lettel on In ill that ell city The Tho letter is to 10 E C L 1 Lomax general agent ot of the Union Pa fit at Omaha Mr II Booth Hoeth sa says I the city Is In good shape financially and op opening upon tt It promising year p r The street car has been re 10 In good shape the tho United Hall roads com Company pan having spent pent and having over twice this sum read ready for tor expenditure ns as needed Over half the tho debris created by the disaster In ill April has booth removed beyond the tho city limits Foundations for tor hI big buildings and structures or of nil all kinds ale being laid Mr Ir Booth says SIlS hundreds ot of steel structures will bo be erected carl early In the present year CITY IS Figures contained In Mr 11 Booth let letter letter ter pineo the number of oC buildings de destro ell by the earthquake and fire 1110 Itt fit and the approximate loss at This amount does dOls not cov cover cH cHel er el the value ot of which If added would run the tho up to III carried amounted to about ot of which Is III paid This represents SO p pr l cent uC of Insurance against GO per cent recorded cd for forthe forthe the Chicago U lire fire and 90 o pc per cent record recorded od ed to fo the thc tire Christmas trade was larger than over oler sill 1111 Iller reporting that they made n a big birr In ordering lightly Dank Bank clearings In San Salt Francisco for tOr 1906 show an increase of Over 1995 or moro thou II a million dollar Increase per month A from Mr 11 Booths letter shows the ener energy y ot of San brave fol follows lows To 10 further show the tho remarkable energy of our people the tho Iron Yorks completed two to great battleshIps the California and Milwaukee this year great adverse e and yet et these ships have shown speed In ot of their requirements and nil all mechanism Is up ton to It not above the standard The duties on en Imports show how no nn Increase Over oer over Oer 1005 MUCH BUILDING 0 ON In describing the building now un no noder under der way Sau an Mr Booth rites An All Immense amount ot of building Is being Bono dono In all parts ot of tho rho city Two 10 three and tour four stor story ot of a 11 permanent nature are being erected Tho northern part of at atthe the elt city whIch was almost entirely wiped out huts been heen entirely rebuilt and all the buildings are aro superior to those tho 3 dl Thc g rent Cell cen tors ot of trade 11 the elt city have changed materially and to a morn or less pro pronounce d extent Fillmore street treet and Van Ness NeBs avenue are today as In Inviting Inviting pl places colI for tOI shoppers ns as an any of oC the streets In n nn any elt city In the tho country Thu Tho stores aro ao nil fitted up with did tInd fronts and pre n a All the streets are aro well lI lighted ht d and I think I can say better botter lighted than thun most of the tho shop shopping pIng streets In any n of the tho eastern cities They Thoy arc aro certainly much su to any street In Chicago In that respect 1 PLANS Fl FINE E TEHMI TERMINALS ALS Tile Mission district which lies In the tho southern part ot of thO town has shown hown tremendous activity Prior to the tho fire street and its exten ValencIa street was undoubted undoubtedly ly b to ho the tha Sr great at on which stores would bo be built the tho Channel or of orlIndo trade lIndo would Ro go This has changed entirely It has shifted to Mission street which no now has two miles of stores storeR In the tho ca part palt of tilt tho city warehouses have hwe he been on built to which tracks have hao been laid hy by hythe bythe the Southern n Pacific and Santa Fe our In 1 a better position to handle handlo their goods than limn ever before and J I might say 1 hr n tills connection that the tho Southern has hall acquired over ovel acres of land nea near Its Third and Townsend depot It expects to spend 10 In making Its land and water collections nt at that point equal to an anIn any In hu the tho United Staten HOTl UJ SPRINGING UP Mr 11 Booth says ItS the tho Fairmont hotel expectS to In bo be rea ready tor business In M ork hUll started on the tho Palace hotel 1 n fe few blocks front Its sit It and o on t street exIn ol lames dunes D Phelan twill 11 erect a 11 building to the old Phelan building The Tho contract for Cor the tho croc erection tion ot of this building has hus been Iwen lot rho fhe St Francis hotel will w hI be toady for guests next tall fall Apartment houses Os und and smaller hotels arc up In n all directions Workingmen are an average e of oC 5 per Jer day is II being spent freely yet et thu hanks banks have more more ravings on deposit t ever everIn everIn In every sentence Mr r Booths letter Is in tilled w with confidence good lugs from the Now ow City ot of the tho Sea |
