The San Francisco call., 1908-07-04
Completion Of Bay Shore Cutoff Assures Large
Home Settlement Around Railroad Shops
Attractive Valley Affords Ideal Spot for Workers Residences
Away From Smoke and Busde Of Industrial Activity

rural visitor was overheard to remark, I'm dis
appointed in San Francisco. Where the ruins?'
This unconscious compliment great could
have been paid the rehabilitated metropolis 1t
nlumined the indomitabIe courage energy of San
Franciscans by light a strangers unstudied com
nent touched the vital nerve of San Francscos
greatness; the push vigor sublime optimism
of her citizens
development since the put the first
life sleepy Spanish contentment the Won
derfu growth Of the past, from adobe village
frontier outpost the pleasure loving
bohemian city 1906; tangle of scrap iron
and dsmantled masonry which marked her apparent
ruin to the magnificent metropolis of today. is
nothing what future in store for
san Francisco
san Francisco has before her in the years
the certainty Of stupendous growth and an ultimate
commercial power which viii place her among the
cities Of the world Geographical conditions
the location OF cities Francisco
with her wonderful bay the center of COM
meroe between the United States the orient Her
heritage be from her, and with the
completion of the Panama canal certain expan-
oriental trade is assured Of future mag
nhcence beside which her present greatness is as
nothing.
MUST GROW SOUTHWARK
But since San Francisco situated on a peninsula
hemmed in three sides by barriers of
and bay. it follows with certainty that
all growth must be southwark down the PENN
men of affairs that the time S not far distant when
there viii be continuous city sodly built up from
San Francisco to San Jose.
While there be question of this southwark
growth Of the city, it is that but for the
foresight, courage and energy of E. Hartman this
expansion would have been long delayed. But with
the completion of the Bay cutoff and the estab-
lshment Vistacon of the shops and railroad yards
Of the Southern Pacific company an impetus has been
given TO this movement which insures most rapid
and phenomenal settlement the entire district
The magnitude of the task to which Hartman has
bent his mature energies the crownng achievement of
his long career hardly be grasped by those who
have what has been already ACCOMPLISHED or
who have the Imagination picture future results
The Bay Shore cutoff conceived and completed to
obvate the difficulty attending hauling of freight
the heavy grades It was an under
taking requiring the expenditure of millions and the
sumounting of obstacles which none but a master
would have essayed.
It,was determined to construct straight and level
rOadbed along the bay Shore the enormous cost of
which would be fully justified by decreased expense
Of hauling freight level tracks To accomplish
this task it was necessary of tun-
nels, five in number, TO great cuts some of
them 80 feet deep through rock ribbed hills
With characteristic enterprise the was pushed
through with all the vigor a military campaign
Thousands Of have hurled themselves upon these
opposing hills. great steam shovels have eaten their
through rock and gravel clay scores of trains
have carried away the earth dumped into the bay
at Nstaclon where zoo acres have been reclaimed to
make room for the great railroad shops and yards
MILLION DOLLARS A MILE
the Bay Shore cutoff costing over 81 o0o 0oo
mile is in operation Loaded freight trains of 70 or
more cars speed the level tracks a tremendous
saving over the eight and ten trains of the old
system But great has the traffic grown so wonder
fully has the commerce of San Francisco increased
that already the two track road is proving Inadequate
the work of doubling its capacity is under wav
Already tunnel No of the parallel tracks is com
peted.
If nothing more had been accomplished than the
construction of the Bay Shore cuto it have been
Of inestmable benefit and would have
influx Of residents. of of factories
this newly opened hitherto inaccessible terri
tory. But great the advantages thus gained
they nothing to the benefits which will arise
concentration of traffic handling at Visitacion
on the 200 acres of land which the earth from the
the Bay Shore line has from the
bay the Pacific company has already laid the