The San Francisco call., 1897-01-31
TO DEVELOP
MARIN COUNTY
A Boulevard Projected
From Sausalito to
San Rafael.
1t May Also Run to Tiburon if
the Conditions of the Bond
Issue Allow.
A Large Number Of Improvement
Clubs in the County Are Inter-
ested in the Project

There is a project on foot in marin
county whereby the promoters hope to
derive lasting benefit. Briefly statsd it is
coast to San Anselmo, thence to San
Rafael and by branch lines to San Quen-
tin, trending southwark by Reeds to
Tiburon.
The project is considered by many i'm
provement clubs in the county as likely
to prove of immense benefit, and a bill is
now pending before the Legislature calcu-
lated to promote its contamination. The
Northern California Division of the League
of American Wheelmen is said to strongly
favor the project.
Among those who have indorsed the
enterprise are: Marin Development Asso.
citation; Ambrose Harris, president Lark.
spur Club; B. Allen Brown, secretary
Larkspur Club; E. Steele, Mill Valley
Club; w. A. Boole Jr., Ross Station
Club; c. A. Harmon, Larkspur Club;
Hepburn wilkins, San Rafael Club;
| Edgar G. Chapman, Larkspur Club; 5.
| Sylvia, Corte MADEIRA Club; Commo.
dore G. Harrison, Sausalito Club; Judge
| Thomas II. Fottreli, Mill Valley Club
|
| Schwartz, secretary of the Marin Develop
ment Association, were talking yesterday
| about the proposed idea and the best
means for bringing it to successful con-
| clusion.
Speaking of the plan and its develop.
ment Mr.. Harris said:
The Sausalito-San Rafael boulevard move.
| ment inaugurated by the Marin improvement
| Association seems destined to extend into q
chain of roads reaching to all parts of the
| county. The association has been at work de-
| yeloping feasible plans to follow out in the
good roads movement, and from Information
given out by the executive committee after
| consultation with number of leading people
| and carefully working upon the proposition 1t
| is thought that the best plan 20 take up is one
| contemplating q road system beginning at
Sausalito and Tiburon, running thence 10 San
| Rafael, and from there branching out to Bo.
l1nas, Tomales and Novato.
The reasons that argue for this are several.
| In the first place any improvement of consid-
| cradle dimensions in one part of the county
| must have an important influence on all other
| parts. by reason of their ipterdependence,
| Furthermore, a plan like this being complete
| in establishing the main arteries of road
| system for the whole county is entitled to be
| considered as much more valuable than de-
| tached and fragmentary proposition.
| further consideration, and consideration
! of great Importance, is the fact that the money
| for road purposes must be raised, if the plan
which has met with the greatest approval be
| followed, by the whole county. The COM
promise plan, to consider only the first portion
| OF the system, the remaining portion to be
| provided for at later date, will meet and has
| met with opposition which is not wise, and
| which it is not necessary, to create.
| A plan which provided for an equitable and
| full consideration OF ell paris of the county
| obviates this objection ana should receive the
| support OF all sections without dissent
| From preliminary estimates made by the
engineer of the California Development Asso-
| citation, it is considered that the sum oil
| $1,000 will be sufficient to construct wide
| ana substantial roadway from Sausalito to San
| Rafael and at the same time cover the cost
| which will be necessary to put the other roads
| in good condition, and 1t is believed that an
| equitable disposition of the funds will accom-.
| pills tnis purpose and will build the various
| lines indicated in thorough aud substantial
manner
Mr.. Schwartz added:
The next question is raising the neces-