The San Francisco call., 1901-10-08
CITY'S WEALTH
PUT IN FIGURES
Board Fixes It at Sum
Of Nearly Thirty
Millions.
Ordinances Ordering Much
Street Work Finally
Passed.

The Board of Supervisors adopted a res
olution yesterday showing the financial
condition of the city for the year 1901. The
total amount of the city's possessions is
said in the resolution to be S27 ,62l 200, and
the assessed valuation of property for
taxable purposes is S413. 099 $685. with a tax
rate of 81. 5562 per 500. Following is the
property estimate;
Parks. So, OOO, GOO: Fire Department property,
1855, COO; Police Department lots. fire alarm and
police telegraph ggdd 6d6 apparatus for updergroHnd
buildings, 81 SOC, COO cemetery reservation $780,,
600; sundry lots, s26OO0 school lots etc. 50, 49,,
eco.
An ordinance oEdering the dOlng be OF
tween I and J streets; Potrero avenue,
between Twenty-first and Twenty-third
streets. and Greenwich street, between
Broderick and DeVisadero streets, was re-
1 ferred to the Street Committee
To Accept Howard Street.
The bill ordering the repaving of Mis-
sion street, from Silver avenue to Onon-
son to Bryant; Stockton street, from Pa
cific to Union; Post street, from Leaven-
worth TO Hyde; Bush street, from Grant
avenue to Stockton street, and Jackson
street, from Montgomery to Sansome,
The proposed building ordinance was
referred to the joint Committee on Judi
ciary and Building, that the protest of
r i
might be heard.
The resolution authorizing the Mayor to
appoint three experts to appralse the
value of the Bay View farm as site for
a hospital was referred to the Hospital
/ Committee The same committee viii con-
slider a bill directing the clerk to adver-
tise for bids on four acres of land in the
An ordinance was passed to print pro-
viding for the full acceptance OF Howard
street, from Nineteenth to Twenty-sec-
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Twenty-second; Laguna street. from Pa
cific avenue to Broadway; Washington
street from Sansome to Battery, and Va
lencla street. from Market to Fifteenth.
The sum of $657 50 was ordered paid to
7. ]. Welsh for drawing plans for the
HOward-Street engine-hOuse.
Various. Matters of Business.
The City Street Improvement Company
was granted an extension of forty-five
days in which to fulfill its contract for
the repaving of Fifth street, from Folsom
TO Brannan. which has been delayed on
account Of the strike.
The ordinance defining the mode of pro-
cedure in changing grades of streets was
finally passed.
The bill authorizing the Registrar to
/ appoint a chief deputy and a head clerk,
at a salary of $50 per month each, was
deferred one week, as onlys twelve Super
V1SOrS were present.
! The bill empowering the Civil Service
Commission to employ a Stenographer for
three months at SlO0 per month, was de-
ferred for the same reason.
The offer of the Mechanics Institute to
/ sell for $750000 its Hayes street property
to the city as = site for the proposed Car
negie library was referred to the Commit
/ tee on Education.
The ordinance authorizing the Mayor to
/ lease the Sailors Home to the Ladies'
| Seamen's Friend Society for a period of
three years at a nominal rental was final
lY passed
The Bay City Athletic Club was granted
permission TO hold an amateur boxing eX-
hibition on October y. A permit was also
granted to the San Francisco Athletic
Club for October IL.