The morning call., 1893-07-12

managed to get this contract for 10 cents a
cubic yard, making 100000 il all, though
the estimate of City Engineer Fitzhugh
was % cents cubic yard for filling for the
embankment. For all the details of this
big enterprise the ex-senator has shown
his ability 10 make good bargains. 1t is a
heavy undertaking, and the profits like the
capital needed will be immense. If Mr..
Fair lives long enough to see his project
accomplished and 10 enjoy the financial
success VIII CHI it is certain TO have, he will
be an enormously rich man.
He obtained possession of over fifty
blocks of tide land two years ago. and imme-
diately conceived the scheme of making
them site for factories and other business
buildings. lie has disposed of a few and
has fifty-two blocks left. Mr.. Fair intends
to sell none of this land. He will lease it
Tor long terms. Thus as it is sure to re-
main in his possession and as Its value
will continually be on the increase he or
his successor will be the CI9sus of San
Francisco eventually. His present wealth
will be small compared with that of the
future.
His watery estate runs from the line of
one street to that of another, ten blocks
awav, and is in places eight blocks wide.
The marsh on the side of the branrh rail-
road running to Harbor View belongs to
him, and ali the territory that the eye Can
take in from that place looking toward
Black Point belongs to him. When the
filing in, which has been already begun by
the contractors. is finished streets will
have to be paved to induce traffic with the
iron works. lumber-yards and other bust
ness places which are to be established
there. Wharves are assured. 1t is thought
that the filling-in will take two years. The
ex-senator expects to put out about So OOO..
600 on his new settlement.
He is not going 10 waste any of that
money. Some time ago he went to Wash
ington for the promotion Of his enterprise,
and secured from the Government the
right to grade Black Point Reservation.
He will remove from 1t sand to an average
depth of twenty feet, and thus have a
great quantity of material for his own use
without cost.
He also obtained the privilege of using
rock from Angel Island, and he will open
a quarry there. Mr.. Fair, being thus pro-
vided with sand and rock free. can greatly
reduce the Surveyors estimate as to the
cost of the seawall.
The contract for that work cannot be
awarded until two weeks have elapsed.
The Fulton Iron Works nave engineer
ing and shipbuiidiug departments on land
procured from Mr.. Fair, and are now
building private wharf between Brod-
erick and Baker streets. The works have
already put up several buildings, and are
firm of Inman, POulsen e. Co. of Portland,
Or, has secured two blocks between Scott
and Pierce streets. and will build private
wharf. perhaps 400 feet long.
The embsnkmsnt is to be along the line
of Lewis street. running east and west,
and as much wharf room as is required
will be afforded there either by lessees or
by Mr. Fair. Hc owns several blocks If
land farther out in the water than Lewis
street. The line Of the water front where
the jurisdiction Of the Harbor Commits
sioners begins is beyond these distant
blocks. If the Harbor Commissioners
should ever extend the seawall as
far west as this point 1t would be hum
dreds of yards away from the Lewis-str-et
seawall. 1t is not thought that the Har-
Dor Board will make such an extension
for two or three decades. and in the mean
time these extra blocks of ex-senator
Fair will remain under water The
water above them is deep enough for all
sorts OF ships.
Warren g. Malley are now leveling tho
sand hills on Lobos square, and dumping
the sand on MIR. Fairs marshy ground.