The San Francisco call., 1897-07-18
SIXTY PER
CENT LOWER
Figures on Property for the
New Mission Park
and Zoo.
Exhaustive and Conclusive Pc
tition to the Board Of
Supervisors.
Baldwin & Howell Submit Certain
Incontrovertible Facts to Sup
port Their Bid.

Yesterday afternoon petition was pze-
sented to the Board of Supervisors by
Baldwin & Howell which gives some in
teresting facts and figures bearing upon
the value of the property offered by them
to the Board of Supervisors last Monday
Tor Mission park and geological garden.
The brokers submit list of names of par
ties who have bought property i'm m edi-
Ately adiacent to the tract offered by them
to the City, and show conclusively that
they have sold within the past eighteen
months about $56 900 worth of properly,
and that the average price is $685. per
acre, and that property offered by them
to the City, which lies Immediately ad-
jacent to the property recently sold, is
offered the Board of Supervisors for $2605
per acre, so that the price asked the City
is 90 per cent lower than the prices OBJ
tanned for the adjoining property. The
agents in question evidently have no de-
sire to conceal anything from the public,
as they not only have given the names of
all parties who have purchased property
from them, but have also given the lots
which have been sold.
The petition is worded as follows:
SAN Francisco, CAL, July II, 1897.
the City and County of San FrGRcisc0-GENTLE-
MEN: The undersigned res pecuully beg leave
to submit to your honorable board the follow
ing data relative to the value OF the property
offered by your petitioners 10 your honora BILE
board on the 18th instant for the purpose OF a
park and geological garden.
Your petitioners respectfully represent that
the average price for said property exclusive
Of the fve-acre tract upon which the CITY will
be given an opuon OF TWO years) is $2605 per
acre.
YOur Datitionars wish IN edvisa vour bonor
able board that they have within the past
eighteen months sold TO bona-ride purchasers,
a number OF whom have built comfortable
homes thereon, 130 lots in what is known as
Subdivision l OF the Castro-street Addi-
tion, Immediately adjacent to the tract sub
mitted by US 10 you, and that the character of
the land included in said addition is no better
than the average land included within the
tract offered to your honorable board for q
PARK and geological garden.
For your further information we desire to
state that the following is list of names of
purchasers of the lots sold: v P. Paul. J. H. |
Diercks, NJ. Cafferty, P. Foley, Eric Anderson,
A. +. Hession L. p Smith. c. d. Fraser, w. j. |
Irelan, T. E. Maring, Tillie Atkinson. NJ. and |
NJ. Mayn, George C. Tim ns, Agnes NJ Leggatt, |
II. L. Morton, Marie I. Lewis J. +. Sail, L A. |
ana L. l. Reyburn, 2. Z. Erickson, Annie !
\. ana Bertha Kroon. Mary T. Mcclure, Annie |
Allen, c. W. Hintman. J. ]. and NJ. Mahood, Z. |
Paul, T. n. HeilbGon, Mary Nerney, Sar ah
Langan, w. II. Angstein, Josie Cramer, n. and |
K. O'Leary, Charles Weineman, Mamie " Gra- |
ham, Mary Finberg, A. NJ. Leggatt. L P Smith, |
J. NJ. and l. C. jacobson, P. J. Smith, E. P. |
Allen, John o. Swanson, A. F. Enquist Alice |
Palmer, Z. L. Manseau. L. 2. Smith, J. J. |
Brady, E. W. Sierp Jr., Amalia 7. Hansen, Z. |
Harris, Frank II. Johnson, Ellen 7. Kidder H. |
]. J. Angee, Eliza c. Culver, Jacob Selmer, An |
tonic F. Jorgenson, ?. Nelson, James E. Crow |
ley, Thomas Crouch, ]. H Diercks, Minnie |
William E. Strickland, Lillian E. King, F. G. |
Caster, Minnie N. Davidson, Christine Nelson, |
?. Nelson, H: F: Hansen, j. Nj Morris, ]. J. |
Swain, Walter L. Carey, John A. Lyon.
The following is a list of the lots sold: Lots |
?, g. TO % inclusive in block lots3 to 10 in
elusive in block 2; lots 2 TO II inclusive 13 |
IA, Is, 20 to 26 inclusive, % to Al inclusive, |
As, 40, so, 81, 56, 81 and SO, in block 3; lots |
l 10 % inclusive and "A in block 4 lot l IN
blocA 5; lots 1 to and 13 to Is inclusive in
block .; lots to 3 and to ID inclusive in
block z; lots l to Is inclusive in block 8; lots
?, 4, >, 9, II and 13 in block 8.
Attached hereto is map OF said Subdivision
l OF said Castro-street Addition, which will
enable your honorable board to make an ex-
animation of said property If you so desire.
Your petitioners represent that the total
area OF the lots sold is 352, 054 square feet,
which is equivalent to 8.02 acres The aver
age pr ice, therefore, Tor the property sold to
date is equivalent to $3.50 05, the total sales
being $55, ,4S5.
Your petitioners appreciate the fact that
while this is the retail value of said property,
we believe that in offering the adjacent prop
elty W me Iaty anu III making discount OF
more than 90 per cent below the retail price
the figure placed upon the tract submitted by
US is fair and reasonable, ana that your hon
orable board will, upon thorough investiga-
ton of the merits OF our property and espe-
cially upon its adaptability for park purposes,
readily appreciate its merits and we trust YOU
will acquiesce in the requirement of it by the
City.
Your petitioners hold themselves in readi.
ness at all times to verify any statement m ade
to your honorable board in submitting the
property offered TO you on the 18th inst Re-
specuully submitted, BALDWIN & HOWELL.