The San Francisco call., 1896-07-09
MISSION FLATS
BEING FILLED IN.
Activity to Be Seen on All
Sides About the South
ern Hills.
BIG CONTRACTS LET.
The Potrero Land and Develop
ment Company Sets the
Pace.
OTHERS ALSO FALL IN LINE.
Work ingmen Protecting Themselves
From Mr.. Winnings
Greed.

The busiest section of San Francisco as
regards street Improvements is that known
as the Potrero or Southern Heights.
Since the Potrero Land Improvement
Company started in 10 cut down Blue
Rock Hill on the Western side of Ken
lucky street some three years ago the in
centive has been recognized by other prop
erty-owners, and TO-DAY hills and mounds
are being removed and gulches and hol-
lows are being brought to grade surface.
This improvement company is still at
work cutting down Tennessee. Minnesota
and Indiana streets and the property adj
joining thereto. There is sufficient work
in sight for this company's men, teams
and rolling-stock for the next three years.
But when the work is finished the oldest
inhabitant of the Potrero would not recog-
nize the place, so great will be the trans
formation effected on the old. bald hills
that frowned down on Mission Bay.
Further back on the western slope Con-
tractor John Kelso has an army of men
grading Alameda street, from Potrero ave-
nue. to Fifteenth street eastwardly. To do
this work there is q big cut through the
hill required.
Fifteenth street. from Nebraska to Bry-
ant avenue, distance OF five blocks, is
being put in shape to be graded. A
little further of, on Hampshire street, be-
tween Fifteenth and Sixteenth, the same
contractor has another gang at work get
ting that place in presentable condition for
| building purposes.
To do all this there will have TO be over
| 80. 600 cubic yards of earth removed, which
will be dumped into Mission Bay. or, more
correctly speaking. Mission mud fat.
Another progressive association which
has done much TO bring South San Fran
CISCO and the Potrero country into habit
velopment Company, which has continu-
ously kept an army of men and horses at
work for the past three years.
This company has Just finished grad
| ing the block bounded by Missouri, Con-
nectlcut, Eighteenth and Nineteenth
streets, and has moved its plant one block
| further, between Missouri and Eighteenth
streets, where the cutting will be used to
| fill in the hollow and bring Mariposa
street. from Pennsylvania to Indiana, a
distance of three blocks, up to grade.
| Twenty street is being graded,
curbed, severed and macadamized from
Nebraska TO Kansas street by Warren &
Malley.
Much of the dirt taken from the cut
/ operate by the Potrero Land Improve
ment Company is b ing used by the
Arctic OIL Works, which company is fill
I Il5 IN the DlOth EeCc1tly puICudScO dlOuS-
/ side OF its present stores. When this fill
| ing is done substantial brick building
will be erected thereon for tank and stor-
age purposes.
The Union Iron Works has the first
story of its new building above ground,
and will have it finished and occupied be-
tore the winter sets in.
The construction of this building and
the converting of the old Office into q
boiler-shop will necessitate some changes
in the railroad track and switches leading
into the company yards
On some of the newly made ground, as
also upon the graded streets, several neat
residence buildings are being erected for
| those workingmen who have families, and
who have suffered so much perturbation
at the hands of Mr.. Vlning in his Eastern
methods of running streetcars. So mig
gardly has been the system OF transfers to
or from the residence portions of the City
and the Potrero that many have made up
| their minds TO build their own little
homes near to their work, where they will
not be compelled to pay 20 cents day for
the privilege 1f seeing their little ones
j when their days work is over.