The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-15
ANOTHER CHICAGO.
Stock. Yards and Packing-Houses
at San Bruno Point.
fians for the Buildings-A Town to Be Located
Near Baden station-C Canal, Race
Course and Fair Grounds.

Dan Bruno Point, situated near the little
station of Baden, about twelve miles from
| thls city, Is the site chosen for the estab-
lShlAent OF an important enterprise. This
| 10 lne construction and operation of pack
ing-houses and stOck-yards on the plan of
similar establishments in Chicago Such
weh-Known names as George L. Swift,
Armour u Co., Nelson Morris, C. P. Libby,
Michael Cuddahy and Edward Morris of
chicago; IL. Kountze of Kountze Brothers,
New York, and Henry j. Croker H. S.
Grocker, kullman, Salz & Co., w. L. Merry,
d. u. James d Co., James Hunter, Martin
Elienbach, E. r. Lilienthal. Livingstone &
20. and Miller & Lux of this city are among
the stockholders.
L. H. ller of Omaha, as manager of the
South San Francisco Land and Improve
leht company and Stock-yards has pur-
chased $40 acres of land between the Mis-
sion road and the San Francisco Bay, ex-
tending from Baden Station three miles in an
hortheasterly direction to San Bruno Point
where VIII be located the stock-yards and
the aoattoirs, packing-houses and other
buildings. There will be two brick packing
houses, each seven stories high and they
VIII be thoroughly equipped with all the
latest devices IN time and labor saving ma
chlnery. The pens will be carefully con-
SsIucted, some covered and Others open.
lhere VIII be accommodation for IL, 600 head
OF cattle, 10000 sheep and $500 hogs. Stables
with dimensions of 160X61 feet will be built,
ana here horses will be boarded, bought and
sold.
DETAILS OF THE SCHEME.
Plans have been completed for four
storS frame building, 200XS0 to be occupied
as hotel, with exchange, land, banking
ana Stock-yards Offices This building will
contain ticket and Geographic Offices d.
Iectors rooms, offices for the transaction of
the company's business, 60 commission Of
Hces' l20 bedrooms, and all the apartments
u lrSt-claSS hotel, which, with the other
buildings, will be Illuminated with electric
light from plant located n the tract
Inc superintendent has Dor ed an arteSian
well $50 feet in depth on the land near the
fallfoai station. with a daily capacity of
10000 gallons. Four or five other wells
VIII lie bored, and a reservoir constructed
on NIL overlooking San Bruno Point. A
sample OF the water is now being analysed
III chicago Tor the purpose of ascertain ing
TIE curative properties of the water, with a
view TO Its use III the curing of meat.
lhe contract has been let for dredging the
course OF canal, which will be 800 feet
wide, enabling vessels drawing % feet of
water to come up from San Bruno Point
Within quarter of & mile of the San Bruno
road, distance of one and half miles. The
canal VIII be constructed of wood and stone.
RACE-CoURsE AND FAIR GROUNDS.
tract of l30 acres has been set aside for
race-conrse and fair grounds. There will be
mile trotting track, and running track
WIN course one and quarter miles in
length.
slip for drawing up vessels for repairs
is among the projected undertakings Of the
company. The franchise has been granted
Tor a motor road to run between San Bruno
Polnt and Baden Station, and a thorough
tare, eighty feet wide, is to be constructed
between these points.
The only buildings erected as yet are
camps" for the workingmen to be en-
ployed i'll the construction of the buildings
aud works. II. w. Walker, the Superin-
tendent, has offices near the Baden Station,
where the manager resides. The main
Offices Of the company are in this city, at
319 Pine street.
When the buildings ara completed the
land VIII be subdiyided into blocks aud lots
and the portion OF the property not reserved
for the officers and employees of the company
VIII be placed upon the market.
a BRANCH ROAD.
South San Francisco will be midway be-
tween this city and San Bruno. The South
ern Pacific Company proposes to build a
branch read running to San Bruno Point
and thence along the coast to this city The
projected route will be four miles shors er
than the present line, and will avoid the
heavy grade near Baden.
Peter Il. Her, manager OF the company, Is
South Omaha capitalist, who owns a dis
tillery and stock-yards in that city, and who
Is also largely interested in similar enter
prises in Chicago. He has been busy pro-
curing plans and estimates to be laid before
the stockholders, who will meet here in
about ten days. The organization of the
company will then be perfected, incorpora-
ton effected and the work of construction
proceeded with immediately