The San Francisco call., 1909-12-11
ZONES OF INDUSTRY
IN The SOUTH SIDE
Wholesalers and Manufacturers
Seek Business Sites Near the
Railway Terminals

and manufacturing point of view, to be
divided into great and important zones.
Beginning at the south line of Market
street, at its intersection with East
street, in a territory that is occupied by
large wholesale houses, by manufac-
turers' agencies, by manufacturing
plants. and along the shore by lumber
yards, is a zone that extends over
toward Rincon hill. In this are in
Mission and Howard streets, adorned
with splendid. structures and having
the promise of many more of the same
sort. The aggregate valuation of the
lands. buildings and industrial plants
in this section runs high into the mill
lions of dollars.
THE RAILWAY TERMINALS
Another characteristic zone includes
the three great transcontinental rail-
way terminals. In this region there
are huge brick warehouses, networks
of track which run. or are to run,
across the intervening lands to and
along newly constructed piers. Near
ness TO railway terminals was the lure
that attracted large concerns to points
near the terminals of the Southern
Pacific and the Santa Fe railway sys-
TENS, south of Market street, at time
when the wholesale and manufacturing
sections of the city lay in ashes. Tais
in fact is a cause which was attracting
wholesalers south of Market street
some years before the fire. and has also
made locations near the belt line rail-
way tnorth of Market street desirable
for business sites The Western Pa
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south of Market street territory.
Howard and Mission streets. consid-
ering them in their extent from East
street to somewhere near Third, have
peculiar characteristics. They are nat
ural outlets from and means of access
to the water front because they are
level and are midway between the bust
ness community that is assembled on
the south shore of the bay and the
large wholesale and retail sections typ
! ihed by Market street and other streets
iIorthward.
HOWARD AND MISSION STREETS
Howard and Mission streets, begin
ming about block from East street
and extending to near Third, are for
! a large part splendidly built up with
! fine structures that are devoted to
Wholesale and to manufacturing pur-
poses. At Third street the hotel and
retail sections of these streets begin.
Market street is parallel with them and
not far away Mission street has the
advantage of thoroughfare between
Market street and the north line of
Mission, which gives the northerly deep
lots in Mission street the advantage of
two frontages
Howard street is conspicuous. not
only for the improved class of strue-
| lures erected since the fire of 1906,
but also by the fact that one entire
block fronting in Howard street has
been for years in the possession of
the Southern Pacific company and is
| held as a terminal site by that great
| corporation. Every north and south
street between Market street and the
bay shore crosses both Howard and
Mission. The level parts of Folsom,
Harrison. Bryant and Brannan streets
share the typographical conditions that
belong to both Howard and Mission
streets; and these latter named thor
oughfares are also crossed by all the
street that are cut through from Mar
ket street to the bay.
The Importance of the north and
south streets and the east and west
streets alike, that lie south of Market
street, is largely increased by the great
operations of the trenscontinental rail-
ways and their connecting steamship
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protecting their terminal facilities
along the bay front. The advent of the
Western Pacific and the plans of the
Southern Pacific to bring traffic over a
bridge crossing the bay of San Fran
cisco and around to it's terminal at
what is known as the Dumbarton cut
off are factors which must largely
hasten the development of the south of
Market street section.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RUMORS
While there is some uncertainty con-
cerning the significance of many pur-
| chases of real estate between Beale
and Bryant streets and along a line
reaching diagonally from the foot of
Bea1e street at its southerly junction
with Bryant toward East, a glance at
| the block books of the city and county
realty shows the Southern Pacific COM
pany to be the acknowledged possessor
of very large holdings which. with the
omission of some links, constitute
chain of properties that lead we'll over
| toward East street. Connected with
| this fact public surmise has for some
wears held that the Southern Pacific
company is intending to join It's hold
| ings in Townsend street with East
street
once it was rumored that the South
ern Pacific had arranged for an ele-
waited railway, or had al least discussed
| the matter. this line to run from East
street to Third and Townsend. Other
plans have been discussed and it has
been said that the Southern Pacific has
been purchasing lands south of Market
street for the purpose of securing room
for large system of spur tracks to
reach warehouses and large mercantile
establishments sure to follow increased
commerce.
Whatever the plans of the big cor
| noration may be, the fact exists that
| the Southern Pacific company is one of
| the largest of all property owners
| south Of Market street and that what
ever its operations may be they are all
| certain to take place in the south of
Market street region, which by prox-
| unity will be the greatest gamer, inn
| medjateIy, of any part of San Fran
cisco. Greater railway facilities and
Increasing terminal advantages are in
fact bases for reasonable expectation
concerning large share of the future
growth of south of Market street.
MANUFACTURING ZONES
There are separate manufacturing
zones south of Market street. Some
| Of the factories are in Howard street,
| some in Mission street but a great
many are in the north and south