The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-07-18
To San Francisco has Come
the Opportunity of Life Cine

1t is more than probable that the great San Francisco fire will prove a.
boon in disguise to the city of the Golden Gate. Whether it will or lot will
depend all together upon the people of San Francisco themselves With prac
,tcaly all of the business session ruined and destroyed the opportunity 10
presents itself of making the new city which will spring up from the ashes of
the old not only the most beautiful, but the most substantial city in thu world
Before them as in me broad panorama stand all of the cities of the world,
with their fiIngs pictured in bold contrast to those features which the lessons
of time and the researches of science have taught to approach perfection in the
builders art. Was we a city SO favored by wealth of example on the eve of
reconstruction as the western metropolis which Sc recently experienced the fell
art to the projections of London, Paris and New York, San Francisco can claim
that which is hest and leave that which is mediocre or commonplace. Her
construction may partake of the antique in style, and of the modern in stability.
She must rebuild with a view to that which caused her downfall and yet,
of streets, parks and street, traffic She must choose for Ter Establishment the
tasty gorgeousness Of the ancient builder and combine that in peain gharmony
with the simplicity of modern art. San Francisco is blessed with a climate
which partakss of the best in all other cities; she is then in a position to wen
improve upon the boosted perfection of other municipalities
Above all things in the rebuilding If the greater city haste should be svod
ed. There's are many things to be considered, mosto of which we're made qute
palpab1e through her recent experiences There must be ample provision made
against a widespread visitation Of the fire demon, even under the most uncertain
Of circumstances, and therefore her FIRE department must be reorganized with the
minutest attention given to detail. Likewise her street car system must be
material used in the reconstruction o. her buildings must be subjected to most
rigid Of experiments against its susceptibility to earthquakes, fires and all other
known agencies of destruction.
People who are disposed to speak with skepicism as to the future Of Cali.
fornlas grandest city, should but remember the Herculean task which the re-
building involves 1t is essential that provision be made against the destruc
tion of the nw city in a similar manner to the old, and this provision cannot
be made in a day. 1t is a problem that win require months to solve and with
the assistance of scienee and of all the constructive genius in this an in other
lands fan Francisco will not be rebuilt in a day, or n a ear, nor even will
atdre construction be planned in that time, but it will be rebuilt nj surely
as it IA destroyed. From the ashes of destruction and from the bitterness Of
destroyed hope will rise a city fairer by far than vas ever conjured in the mhno
Of a Eab,ionian king, more substantial than ever the pyramids Of Egypt, and
yet more moteru, more convenient and more beautiful than " the greatest
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