Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-05
TWIN PEAKS.
Senator Stanford Will Probably Make
Another Donation
From the San Francisco Chroniola

SChatOA CtdhlOEu Will ITODaDIY Make
Another Donation.
From the San Francisco Chronicle
A conversation which took place at a
small breakfast party in Senator Stanfofd's
city residence few weeks since will in the
near future lead to the city being made the
recipient of q tract of land to be deyeloped
into recreation ground and public park
At the table were the Senator and his
wife and their guest, O. Livermore, Mr..
Stanford real estate agent in this city !. The
conversation turned on a tract of land
which the Senator owns surrounding the
Twin Peaks and extending within short
distance of the southeasterly extremity of
Golden Gate Park, the whole tract being
about 200 acres in extent and situated at
the north end of the old San Miguel
Rancho. When asked what disposition he
intended making of this tract, the Senator
replied that it was his intention, first of all
to beautify and lay it out and then to deed
it to the city.
Maurice Dore, the pioneer real estate
agent of ALI Pine street. showed C1ron-
icle reporter yesterday a petition signed
by Stanford, the Spring Valley Water
Works and the Charles Croker estate. and
addressed to the Board of Supervisors. In
the petition the advisibility of extending
Market street to the eastern line of the Lin
coin road is advocated.
Il am holding back this petition - he
said, until / see how the Supervisors are
going to treat the petition of the Market
street Extension Improvement Club, and
if find they treat It favorably then / am
authorized by Senator Stanford to hand in
this petition anG acquaint them with his
intention with regard to the Twin Peaks
tract of land.
T. J i r
road it will then border directly on STAN
ford's property, and presume in improv-
ing his tract he will build a road through
the proposed park to connect directly with
one of the Golden Gate Park drives, so that
the public can drive directly from one
park into the other. l am informed by
Colonel Livermore that Mrs Stanford ex.
pressed her wish to build magnificent
museum on the top of one of the peaks,
IN which is to be stored collection of
all kinds OF Pacific coast curiosities. On
the other peak she suggested erecting a
statue of Sir Francis Drake, representing
the adventurer in his ship entering the
Golden Gate.
II have also here, which / will now show
you, separate petition, drawn up by
Adolph Sutro, in which he advocates diff
ferent proposition with regard to the ex-
tension of Market street. His idea, as you
see. is to extend the street to the Corbett
road, and thence in a northwesterly direc-
ton straight through to the park At pres.
ent we have only Golden Gate avenue and
a very poor meandering drive from the city
into the park, but by Mr.. Sutro's PROPOSE
ton we can have boulevard on level
grade running straight out from Market
street, via the Corbett road, to the park
However, you can just add this, that unless
this matter is taken up heartily by the citi-
zens and by their mouthpieces, the press, l
will just consign all these papers to the
stove. Now is the time to do this, as at
present there are but three houses on the
line of the proposed extension to either the
Lincoln or the Corbett roads, while in a
year or two hence that part of the city will
be we'll built over, and the city will be
mulcted to an enormous expense to make
the extension. Stanford's proposition will
take several years to perfect, but he has
promised to take hold of the matter as soon
as he returns from Washington and gets a
little liberty from his university, Palo Alto
and other schemes. If the matter is taken
up now Mr. Sutro and the two other prop
erty-holders in the San Miguel rancho will
be only too glad to deed to the city, free of
charge, sufficient land to make the extern
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