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Show I San Francisco, the Queen City. Son Francisco is pressing stoudily to the trout as a great commercial city. The Argonaut gives tho figures to show "the dominant fact that the San Franci .-co clearing house transacts mow- business than all the clearing houses of Los Angeles. Seattle, Salt Lake, Portland, Spokane. Denver, Topeka, Fremont, Wichita and Colorado Springs put together." to-gether." And no other city is jealous of San Frjui-cisco. Frjui-cisco. Does she not sit like it queen by the Golden Gate? Is not her harbor (he only real one for (! miles north or south? Is not the state behind the city, the fairest and richest hi native resources in the Union? Why, now that tb trans-Pacific trade is beginning to take on colossal proportions, why should 'not the beautiful city expand by leaps and bounds? Since '49 the Argonauts and their descendants de-scendants have churned a part proprietorship in the great place. She cannot become rich enough or "fair enough to exite anything but admiration in the thoughts of her neighbors. Goodwin's j Weekly. ! A |