The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-02

ways, that are delight in themselves and
that make everything else seem lovelier.
Some years ago the county spent nearly
$4,000 ON a fine driveway to Mount
Hamilton, twenty-six miles from San Jose.
and the investment has never been re-
GREETED. Thousands of people come here
yearly to enjoy the grandest drives the
world affords.} =.
The portion of the boulevard that is to
extend through the Santa Clara Valley to
San Jose would be one of the most delight.
full sketches Of the driveway and would
afford an enchanting change of scene.
Through San Mateo County the splendid
estates, beautiful towns, picturesque hills
and canyons, the view of the bay, the oak
groves: the great expanses of green and
the gentle airs would not grow monotonous
for moment, but many miles north of
San Jose the surroundings would change.
The Santa Cruz Mountains would rise still
higher, with their redwoods in relief
against the sky. The valley with its
orchards and gardens and grainfields and
the fertile, broken foothills would open to
view. The magnificent estates and the
pretty houses would still be passed, but the
charming beauty and bounty of the won-
derfully fruitful orchards of the Santa
Clara Valley would stretch for miles in
every direction. No section of the State
would more please the stranger or better
show California's bounty, and nothing
would present that region to the world
better than the boulevard that must be-
come world-famous as soon as it is built.
GA en1ap1id propocifion and <roo@
thing for San jose" says Paul P. Austin,
the progressive Mayor of that city, who is
just now working tooth-and-nail for the
new railroad. He further says:
AS business proposition it would be great
thingfor this whole region. It would bring a
great many people here who never come now,
and people who do come would come oftener.
1t would be a good business investment for
Santa Clara County to pay its share, and 1
would like, to see this county take hold of it
and Its share to bring it about.
A broad, sprinkled highway, running through
a beautiful country, would be a popular and
famous drive, and there would be an immense
amount of travel on it between here and San
Francisco. It would be the finest drive on the
Pacific Coast Itwould do great deal to build
up large suburban population, both in San
Mateo and Santa Clara counties.
The Mount Hamilton road illustrates what a
good road will do. have forgotten how many
thousands visited the Lick Observatory last
year, but the number was surprisingly large.
With poor road up the mountain only frac-
ton of that number would have made the trip.
There is no question that good roads help
greatly to populate. a. country, and such a
boulevard would be q big factor in doing that
work for the west side of the bay. Everybody
Ihave heard mention 1t has spoken of it ap-
provingly and l believe majority of the
people will favor it. 1t has not been taken up
yet because everybody likely to push such an
enterprise has been absorbed in the new rail-
road enterprise
The drive between here and Menlo Park is
delightful now all the way, going on we'll
macadamized road, beneath spreading oaks.
past beautiful houses and rich orchards. The
boulevard would be still more attractive and
would be fine road all'the year round.
:. w. C. Andrews. President of the Board
of Trade, is one of the most active and in
fluential workers for everything in the
line of progress and he indorses the boule-
ward in this way:
am decidedly in favor of it. 1 enthuse over
everything that will bring us to the front. 1t