The San Francisco call., 1906-06-13
CTTY'S POSITION
IS |MPRE ENABLE
Marston Writes Address
on Its Commercial
Supremacy.
Document Is Sent Out
to Business Men All
Over the World.

Captain w. H. Marston, president of
the Chamber of Commerce of San Fran
;ssco, has written an address to inform
he commercial men of the world about
San Franciseo's inpregnabfe position
IS commercial port. This address
the publicity department of the South
ern Pacific Company will circulate as
Commerce will send copy to each of
the commercial organizations of the
world. The text Is as follows:
TO the Chambers of Commerce and
other commercial organizations in the
United States and foreign countries.
portant at this time TO give ASSURANCE
to the world of commerce and trade
that the commercial Importance of San
Francisco is assured by nature and
away with that fact The member
ship of the Chamber of CommeTce Of
San Francisco is due to that under
standing. The rapid growth of San
Francisco in the past few years is
proof of IT,
Now that runaors have found cur
reney that 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 on the Pacific
Coast, to call attention TO certain facts
and considerations that are no less
for the advantage of than for the en-
lightenment of every one who has an
active interest in commercial geog-
raphy and studies its lessons.
San Francisco is the principal sea-
port of the Pacific Coast of the United
States. Two transcontinental systems
of railways, the Southern Pacific and
the Santa Fe, have thei- teTmini here
and third transcontnental road is in
construction, with San Francisco as its
terminus Lines OF steamships regu-
larly ply between San Francisco and
the Orient, Australia, New Zealand.
the Hawaiian Islands, Mexico, the
coasts OF South and Central America,
of the Pacific Coast Of the United
States and European ports. Sailing
vessels from all parts of the world de-
liver and take cargoes at San Fran
Two large rivers, the Sacramento
and the San Joaquin. serve as inland
waterways to the sreat interior val
length. in size and empire, having soil
and capacity to maintain comfortably
at least 20,o0O,0O0 people, and TO pro-
duce 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 guam
titles of products that are peculiar, as
MIA, and that always will tend to
greatly augment the commerce of this
port. The grain fields, now that in
telligent experiment is pointing the
way to an addition TO their output, will
increase the present volume of
freights to be moved and enrich San
products of California amount to about
S40.000,000 a year. The mining, result
ng from inexhaustible mineral depos
its of fifty kinds. leads TO large ex-
machinery and general supplies.
An open port, surrounded by land,
with room for the navies Of the world
% be sheltered in land-locked bay;
the financial. banking and commercial
enter of the Pacific Coast of the
Cnited states; the entry port for the
Millions of people in China and Japan
weakening more and more to the ad-
gantages of commercial dealings with
he United states; the Panama canal,
ornia thousands of miles nearer to
European and American markets than
California's distinctive products insure
o this State market for what ii can
produce; the millions of acres back of
san Francisco in the interior that will
enturies; an ocean full of Ash at the
'ront door of this port; the commercial
interests of the world that are mex
ericabIy tied up with the interests of
hat this port is a natural gateway
these are few factors that are self
evident to the casual observer and
nenting greatness of San Francisco.
In Behalf of the Chamber OF Com
nnerce OF San Francisco wish to give
assurance that commercial men who
'ast IN their lot with this city wifi not
20 wrong. The opportunities for sue
essful enterprises are many. We
ave shipyards. docks, wharves. freight
handling facilities, cheap fuel oil in
endless quantities, genial climate,
an enterpfisfng and dauntless people
everything that is needed for our flu
ture greatness. The earthquake of
April IS. 1908, did not injure our COM
merce or our Industries. The FIRE did