Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-15
COMMERCE OF
SAN FRANCISCO
Statement Made That Natural
Position of City Assures Its
Supremacy on the Coast.

To- Chambers of Commerce and
Other Commercial Organizations
in the United Staten and Foreign
Countries:
Gentlemen-It would seem to be
important, at this time, to give as
surance to the world of commerce
and trade that the commercial inn
portanee of San Francisco is assured
by nature and that no accident or
incident can do away with that fact.
The membership of the Chamber of
! Commerce of San Francisco is due to
that understanding. The rapid
growth of San Francisco in the past
few years is proof of it.
Now that rumors have found cur
rency hat are not favorable to the
idea that San Francisco will continue
to grow as rapidly as before as a com
mercial port, it is the duty of this,
the Oldest commercial body Of the
Pacific coast, to call attention to GER
tain facts and considerations that are
no less for the advantage of than for
the enlightenment of everyone who
has an active interest in commercial
geography and studies it's lessons.
San Francisco is the principal sea-
port of the Pacific coast of the United
States. Two transcontinental sys-
tens of railways, the Southern Pacific
and the Santa Fe, have their termini
here, and a third transcontinental
road is in construction, with San
Francisco as it's terminus. Lines of
steamships regularly ply between San
Francisco and the Orient. Australia,
New Zealand, the Hawaiian Islands,
Mexico, the coasts of South and Cen
trail America, the Philippines, Alas
ka, the seaports of the Pacific coast
of the United States and European
ports. Sailing vessels from all parts
of the world deliver and take cargoes
at San Francisco.
Two large rivers, the Sacramento
and the San Joaquin, serve as inland
water ways to The great interior val
leys, which are hundreds of miles in
length, in size and empire, having
soil and capacity to maintain com
fortably at least twenty million peo-
pie, and to produce food for a great
part of Europe.
Climate supplements soil and en-
ables California to send to the port of
San Francisco for shipment, vast
quantities of products hat are pecu-
liar, as regards the United States,
to California, and that always will
tend to greatly augment the COM
merce of this port. The grain fields,
now that intelligent experiment is
pointing the way to an addition to
their output, will increase the present
volume of freights to be moved and
enrich San Francisco very greatly.
The mineral products of California
amount to about forty million dollars
a year. The mining, resulting from
~inexhaustible mineral deposits of
fifty kinds, leads to large expendi-
lures annually for material and ma
chinery and general supplies.
An open port, surrounded by land,
with room for the navies of the world
to be sheltered in a land-locked bay;
the financial. banking and CONNER
cial center of the Pacific coast of the
United States; the entry port for the
trade of the Orient. with hundreds of
millions of people in China and Jap
an awakening more and more to the
advantages of commercial dealings
with the United States; the Panama
canal. which will bring the products
of California thousands of miles
nearer to European and American
markets than is now possible by sea;
the fact that CALIFORNIA; distinctive
VI OahtA . ~ thAo oAeliC a Iial h0A
for what it can produce; the millions
of acres back of San Francisco in
the interior that will produce vast
quantities of freight for centuries;
an ocean full of fish al the front door
of this port; the commercial inter-
ests of the world that are ineXtric-
ably tied up with the interests of San
Francisco by reason of the fact that
this port is a natural gateway-these
are a few factors that are self evil
dent to the casual observer and that
bear on the continued and augment
ing greatness of San Francisco.
In behalf of The Chamber of Com
MERGE of San Francisco, | wish to
give assurance that commercial men
who cast in their lot withthis city
will not go wrong. The opportuni-
ties for successful enterprises are
many. We have shipyards, docks,
wharves, freight handling facilities,
cheap fuel oil in endless quantities.
a genial climate. an enterprising and
dauntlesS people-everything that is
needed for IL future greatness. The
earthquake of April IS, 1906, did
not injure our commerce or our in
dustries. The fire did not curtail our
resources. Our banks are full to
overlooking with money.
/ hope that this letter to the COM
mercial bodies of the world may help
clear up any misrepresentation and
that it will lead to a study and com
plete understanding of the impreg-
nable position of San Francisco.
Respectfully,
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
OF SAN FRANCISCO.
w IL MarSfnn President