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Show GREATER SAN FRANCISCO. Tho story of San Francisco's reconstruction cannot be more succinctly and effectively told than by quoting the following tabulated statement of the building permits issued for the period between be-tween April 18, 190C, and March 1, 1909: Classification. Number. Value. Class A. . . . 77 $18,649,982 Class B 108 7,949,831 Class C 1,341 41,294,879 F-arao 12,021 49,389,075 Alterations t J51.00 9,384,540 Total 19,647 $126,668,307 Adding 15 per cent for undervaluation underval-uation in applying for permit $145,668,553 The significance of these figuros will bo appre- elated when it is remembered that according to a careful estimate made after a minute examination of the assessor's books, the value of the 28,186 buildings destroyed amounted to $105,000,000. A comparison of the ratio of value between the old and the new tells in a nutshell how much finer a city has been built than the one that was the center cen-ter of the commercial activity of the metropolis. |