The San Francisco call., 1909-11-04
CITY WILL SELL
$,OOO,OOO BONDS
Supervisors Decide to Call for
Bids on Six Issues De-
cember 6
January Deliveries to Provide
Adequate Funds for New
Administration

Municipal bonds TO the sum of $4,000
board of supervisors December 8. The
incoming administration will find pro-
vided for it plenty of money TO keep
going the work upon the fire protec-
tion,. sewer. school, hospital, garbage
plant and Hetch Hetchy undertakings
when il takes command January 8
next. Chairman Johnston of the public
utilities committee and Chairman Jen-
nings of the finance committee united
yesterday in the conclusion that the
work upon all these important projects
should be prosecuted with vigor dur
ing the two closing months OF the
present boards control, and that ade-
quate funds should be provided for its
uninterrupted progress after the De
ginning of thesnew year.
I'VE should go right ahead, said
Johnston, with the Geary road and the
Hetch Hetchy undertakings and pro-
vide the money also for the new board
to prosecute the fire protection, school
and the other bond issue matters the
day the new members step into office.
WILL VOTE IN DECEMBER
His coEea gues agreed with the chair
man of the public utilities committee,
to holding two bond issue elections in
the same week-the charter not per-
nitting the Geary road matter to be
submitted with other projects-the SUI
pervisors held that both the street rail-
way project and the S43,000,0O0 Hetch
Hetchy bond issue authorization should
be put before the people, as planned,
during the latter part of December.
At a Joint session of the two commit
tees, at which Supervisors Johnston.
Jennings, Murphy, Pollok, Payot, Ban
croft and McLeran were present, and
after conference with representatives of
some of the bonding houses. which have
already bid largely on San Francisco's
offerings the board members directed
Clerk Behan to draw up the necessary
ordinances and asked City Attorney
Longs opinion on one or two minor
points.
Two deliveries for the $4,000. 900
worth of bonds, each for s2,000,000.
were decided upon. The successful
bidder must contract to deliver half
the sum January to the city treasurer,
and the balance before the close of
the month.
The $4,000, 900 will be distributed
among the several bond issues as fol-
lows:
For the fire protection system. ST.
100000
OI S6WtTS, Si,uUV,VVV
For schools, $500, 200.
For the general construction of the
new hospital, s44O,0O0.
For the garbage disposal system.
5000, oe0
For the Hetch Hetchy water supply
system, s360.000
The fire protection money will be
needed mainly for the contract of lay
ing the pipe of the system. More than
$1,000 tons of castiron pipe will be used.
About $4,000 tons has already been de-
livered in San Francisco, and the city
engineers Office is nearly ready to be-
gin the job along Market street
The sewer for the Yerba Buena dis
trict, the old pueblo section immedi-
ately south of Market Will require
most of the $1,000,000 to be secured by
the sale of sewer bonds; and the schools
upon which progress payments in jan
uary and February will require the
$780, 900 are the girls gh school and
the Denman, West End, Holly Park,
Spring Valley and Grattan structures.