The San Francisco call., 1898-03-12
DEFENSES ON
 MARINES SHORE Vast Sums to Be Ex- pended for Protection of San Francisco. Breastworks Will Be Erected at Lime Point and Point
 Bonita.
Plans Include the Construction Hard Bed Road From
 SauSalitO.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SAUSALITO, March 11.-Thousands Of dollars are to be expended at the Lime Point and Point Bonita Notifications for the defense of San Francisco harbor. The Sausaiito News will tomorrow pub fish the following:
 While the citizens of Sausalito are agi- tated over the coming town election, transpiring in our midst which means the towns in the State of California.
 It is not generally known that three United States army officers in San Fran cisco received instructions from the de- partment at Washington last Tuesday to proceed to Sausalito immediately and make a rough estimate of the cost of constructing a hard bed roadway from Sausaltto to Lime Point and through to Point Bonita: also the cost of erecting barracks and breastWorks for the de- fense of San Francisco harbor en the Ma rin shore.
 Tuesday morning, upon receiving the urgent orders from Washington the off, cials of the Government came to Sausa- Point, where they consulted with the resi- dent officers. Their instructions were to telegraph the result of their work to the War Department at Washington that very evening, as the national defense ap- propriation bill was to be presented in the House of Representatives the next day w
 The News representative interviewed the officials, and while information was given, it was done with the understand ing that it would not be made public for a few days at least, and the News is now at liberty to publish this important information that means the spending per haps of half million dollars on the de- lenses of San Francisco Bay, a great part of which will fall to the Marin shore, for General Miles says that Lime Point is the Gibraltar of the Pacific Coast and nQfur4I nlaHa a l. fled in the event of war.
 The Government officials stated that hardbed road would have to be con structed from General Dickinson's resi- dence around the bluffs to Lime Point and then continued to Point Bonita. The construction of the road will cost in the neighborhood of S25, 900 and work may commence within two weeks
 Over this road the heavy artillery and the mammoth guns to be erected along the coast between Lime Point and Point Bonita are to be transported.
 The officials also in their telegraph re- port to the War Department recommend ed the expenditure of a large sum for ad- ditional barracks at the point Along the coast to Point Bonita breastworks are to be thrown up and heavy cannon mounted. It was intimated that several hundred the highway. as it is a very important piece of preliminary work.
 Not until the orders were received from Washington that sent the officials post haste to Lime Point did any of them con- slider the probability of war with Spain of much importance, but now they are convinced, especially as the great fifty million dollar appropriation bill is passed war may be declared any day,
 The great expenditure of the nations money at Sausalito, which Is to com mence immediately, will be the means of stimulating business and adding to the towns prosperity and popularity. This with the consolidation of the two local railroads, which is sure to take place within a year. will place Sausalito in the front ranks of the towns of the State