The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1876-06-10
THE GROWTH OF SAN FRAN.
CISCO.

Just ISSUED IN San Francisco, regis
tiers the name Of 9O,633 resident
males against 77,208 in 1875, and
1922 in 1874. The increase since
March LIST, 1875, has been I3,427 or
nearly eighteen per cent.
From an exchange We collate the
following facts aud figures concern
ing the city's growth:
The number Of buildings erected
during the year ending February
29th 1876. was 1870, Of which forty
four were brick, at an aggregate
cost Of 12.5OO,O0O. The aggregate
cost Of improvements Of all kinds
was over sl3,O0O,OOO. The total
number Of buildings within the city
is 25,500, Of which 1880 are brick.
The assessed valuation of real
estate in the city is 1927, 1888, 645; of
improvements, s42,659, Sos Of per-
sonal property, exclusive of money,
800, 1913 of money, 1854, 208;
total valuation, s268, 532,s57. The
municipal debt is s3,749,547, and
the ratio of taxation last year, six.
teen mills on the dollar, Of which
the State received six, the city and
county the remainder.
The real estate 81 les made i'm 1875
numbered 4,2O8, amounting to $685..
8S9, 374, an increase Of 654 sales,
and $l1 ,995, AIS in amount for the
year. The mortgages recorded were
1898, amounting to sl6,892, 268 !;
the releases numbered 1894, in
amount s9,74O,277. The increase in
the number Of mortgages for the
year was 372, amounting to SIG, 564;
the decrease in the number Of re-
leases was 1876, and the amount Of
the decrease was 81 1907
The cost of street work for the
year was $6O3,492. The cost Of
sweeping the streets is $500 per
month, and the total cost of sweep
ing and repairs was $28s,Oll. The
lighting Of streets and repair Of
street lamps cost s273,sOl, making
. total expense Of 81, l65, OO6 for the
improvement and the care of the
streets.
Seven new schoolhouses affording
accommodation for 500 pupils were
built at cost Of. sa5O,l46. The
number employed in manufacturing
industriesof the city is estimated at
$1,000 persons. The number Of
real estate sales during the first quar-.
ter Of 1876 has been 1,O23, amount
ing to S., 500 900. Prices on Market
street from Third to Sixth, have ad-
vanoed from twenty-five to sixty per
sent. during the year. The quantity
Of business property sold for $4,000
. foot or even more, 10 quite large.
The choicest residence property in
San Francisco il within the district
bounded by California, Market, Pow
ell and Leavenworth streets, and is
worth from 1926 to $500 per front
foot with y depth Of 1872 feet. The
Western Addition has advanced in a
more rapid ratio than any other
SETON Of the city, and prices have
increased from twenty-five to thirty
five per cent. and now range from
sixty to one hundred dollars per
front foot. The most notable build
ings completed during the year were
the Palace Hotel, the Safe Depos it
Block, the Nevada Bank, Wade
Opera House, the Commercial Hotel,
the Cunningham Building, Mills
Bnilding, Thurlow Block and the
mansion Of Ex-Governor Stanford.
The dividends paid BY corporations
aggregated sec. 7s5, 1000, ~ follows:
2 commercial banks sl,3sS, 900; l2
savings banks $4.754.s00; Wells,
Fargo & Co. 500. 600; Central Pa
cifc X. r. g, 10000; gas and Wa.
tor companies, 81 So, 600; insurance
companies 1871, 600; street railroad
companies, 1880; powder compa-
MES, S22s. 900; coal co mranies sls7,
600; mining eompan les, SIS, 800,
GOO; miscellaneous companies s26l..
800.
The expenses Of the city for the
year ending June S0th 1875, were
81, 435, 26S, divided as follows: sala-
rics, city and county officers, $685..
94l police, 1891, 2Ss; fire depart.
ment, s230,755; school, 500, las
street lights, s3s22, 500 hospital,