The San Francisco call., 1909-10-02
EAST SAN MATEO'S
FINE WATER FRONT
Work Being Done Means Much
to the Future of Place

The harbor development work now
being energetically pushed TO COM
pletion by the East San Mateo land
company on its water front holdings
at San Mateo- means a great deal for
the future of that place.
When the work now contracted for
is finished San Mateo will have at East
San Mateo more than two miles OF
good wharfage at which vessels will
find sufficient dockage.
The compeny's plans are to develop
factory and warehouse sites on the
easterly 400 acres OF its holdings,
carrying out on a larger scale the
same idea that the former owner, AL
vinza Hayward, had when ne con-
structed on the same property a wharf
which in early days. before the rail-
road came, was known as the Hay
ward embarcadero and from which all
of the products OF the valley from as
far east Halfmoon bay were
shipped. 1t is local history. quoted
with pride, that all of the brick used
in the old Palace hotel was made on
this property and shipped from the
Hayward wharf.
History is repeating itself here, az
in so many localities. The new gen
Grafton going over the same grounds
ones who have gone before.
LARGE DREDGERS AT WORK
The East San Mateo land company
has at work one OF the largest dredg-
ers, the Grand Island, working night
and day, cutting a canal 100 feet wide.
feet deep and $500 feet long, con-
Meeting the bay with an inner basin on
its property. having a water area OF
20 acres and being S.400 feet long, 800
feet wide and Is feet deep at low tide
Around the shores of this basin viii
be constructed wharves and ware
houses A spur track from the South
ern Pacific will run TO 1t, thus making
the most ideal site for manufacturers-
deep water at one end and. railroad IA
cilities at the other.
w. H. Obear, the president of the
company, when interviewed on the sub
iect said MY business for nearly 20
years in the southern part of the State
has been devoted principally to in
dustrial property, for the promotion
and DEVELOPMENT of locations along
that line From the day / first visited
San Mateo inspecting the tract that
our company afterward bought and
called East San Mateo / was certain
that the easterly 400 acres of the tract
with it's mile frontage on the great
bay and within sight of San Francisco,
fered the best proposition for a manu-
featuring center that 1 had ever seen
or that could be made IL one had the
ordering of things-a protected bay,
only 5 miles by water and 80 minutes
by rail and on the same side OF the
bay as San Francisco-the city Of San
Mateo with its oak covered hill sites.
only 10 minutes ride, offering ideal and
congenial spots for the owners OF the
factories to live--our 200 acres adjoin-
ing. cut into town lots. Offering good
and cheap homesites for those en-
ployed in the factory; just far enough
from the city, away from its taxation
and temptations, a harbor developed
through which raw materials could
come: the great transcontinental line
at the other end ready to take away
the finished product; plenty of room
TO develop and at prices one-tenth of
what could be had in San Francisco if
the same locations and conditions
could be had at all-an- combined to
make this property a location unex-
celIed for factories.
HAS REQUISITES
Three things are necessary to make
a good harbor-deep water, ample
wharfage and sufficient warehouse
spaee-and last and most important. a
large productive area back of 1t. All
these we have at San Mateo-
..StrategicaIly it could not be better
located. The great Sacramento valley
can send its grain from the north;
from the east and south the products
of the San Joaquin valley viii come
nv rail over the Dumbarton bridge.
soon 10 be finished: from the south out
of the Salinas valley will come its
products. all to meet at the nearest
waterway. our harbor at San Mateo.
bringing about conditions for a -four
mill cereal factory. etc. that could
not be better. Vessels from the north
south, east and west win bring all
kinds of wood furnishing TO a furni-
ture factory it's raw material-hides
from South America for shoe factories
These and all other necessary raw
materials coming from all points make.
as l have said before, q location that
it is impossible to surpass
The East San Mateo land company
is not offering al present any of its
factory property for sale, intending to
wait until the improvements are nm
ished.