Show mars mm GROWTH GRAPHICAL TOll TOLD Business Man of Coast City Tells of Reconstruction Work SKILLED LABOR IS SCARCE nl Rush h of or Building Materials I Headed for California h by F K ery of or The Time following I Is taken from a Liter tI written by a business anti and man mann n of San Francisco It I Is N int ing S In In that thet it I shows time the tw rapid pro progress 11 in m t tin tin- which that city Is making gress aa orl work of reconstruction Tin Tim 11 att I Ity which is lii manifest on un the situ it f If I Ih ilu- ilu great fire forecasts the the building sf f an filL geal immense city above c abo time the ruin tf 1 t the burned metropolis It lt I I Is now estimated by hy an and anti contractors that ful fully full will 1 be le expended In iii buildings t this his hl year Already 4 buIld building rig oem IWI pi mH have ave been issued since tin tin- l mire lire n- n nant and amul ant antof of these tese ICO liO 10 buildings will bo b h between live five and 22 stories In itt height M I 1 I all al alof of thc these c are arc now in hum the lie n ui e r f i 1 Ion everywhere tim throughout m t thi city foundations are being bid InUI ul ulIn 1 In many Instances M where K blI mm f i completely wiped out ou so o many un bull 1111 Ings nr are being put up that lh time the l r i-r i iare are ll discernible again J luring During I the he month of January p p r- r mils mits were Issued of which whelm r.-JO r. wie 01 re cr luel for tOl permanent structures Real Ha I Ct entile I t transaction loris during lulng Lb this Is ml mc month mit nth it amount lt amo to and auth nt an ag aggregate tg- tg IG- IG of or eU Customs lum n- n c lpt amounted to noo 1 I against la last t yar aI B ld clearings for the thc month month am um noted l N t. t a as ox against 1 last year for the month of f If Januar Prom From rom all al' al parts of or time the tl world ve li els laden with structural Iron t rm other othOl building material a an ar ann r n mm to this cl city One On person interested M-esio M Id J inthE m jim the thE industry estimates that Ihal ovi-i ovi IJ 7 jf r ships shIps are aro on en n route from foreign Co ports port Whole Whole- Fleet Eu Engaged a A Antwerp nt welp has haH sent out nut a t of 20 merchantmen besides a n number lum- lum num ber ler bpI of v vessels are arp coming from flom I French Italian an and foreign ports port carrying an I tonnage tou t tf of if f over tons tom This Thiv immense tonnage with the great liitt of f f lumber lum tum- her ber r ve Ir which ar are in the tho harbur will wi test tho the capacity of oC nut ui nul vater r front in their disposition A All Al ii around the la bay a as well as In tim Iho t adjoining sloughs Is every ever conce conceivable croft ar loaded with wih lumber waiting to ho be lC 1 unloaded Thus rims far tar there sp pm ms to 10 be beno le leno no imo lack Inc of building material although the time prices are arE high a and continue to advance nd Time The Palace hotel is if now completely razed to the ground and on one can look hook acro across the time space where this cant camit structure has stood for fOI 30 er The bricks s are of oC such excellent quality quai- quai fual- fual of or ity Jr and were wee set ft in mortar made such material that thai they have ha halo to lo be hw b by hand not nut crumbling H. H Hoso u used mused 1 In many man of or thy hits th- th Vera J UI Seven eYel fon tOI forms u Used t In th thI building and antl th tw hi work of If tearing down consumed three thc month month- Million Million- of Tons Touts of or BrIcks Brick SOI Some Seine Idea of cit the vast quantity of or material to tt I be removed can cun be le formed from lh time the fact that there them ar am n i lIUI brick and ant tons ton t of ut fr fre flu fir e escapes the tl structure contained cube yards of tf material ln wa wagon on loads ORi lh The rime most mo modern eln electric appliances were I used II IIlo to lo cut UI up time the thE girders I as UR well wel its s in iii il loading lug and unloading the thu material Across ACIo t he street lh the old Grand hotel site was sold old i by the Sharon sate to tu the Metropolis Trust Trul Savings bank for fOl anti and a 14 1 story class A steel structure will wi be hp ended on this timis site le at nt an ami expense of e Ve e still ll rt ule many skilled mechanics mechanics mechanics me me- in all al lines hums 1118 of trade n as na well 1 as laborers and amid I anticipate that lint when the colonist rates Intes arc are in force this imis spring sprint there will wi be lie an aim unprecedented movement toward San Francisco The rho street car Astern 3 lCm In iii Inthe Inthe the city Is 15 still very mery much con congested owing to time the Iw travel l in th time the mornings anti and evenings of Ir t laborer limbo rr and amid during time the lH day of people shopping as well 1 as at In lh time the city |