The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-23

commercial city of Alameda county,
which embraces an area of 537 900 cres,
with soil and climate conducive to the
largest variety of agricultural and hor-
ticultuTal products,
progressive municipal administra-
t;o:i is expending S2.500,000 in the de-
vclopmcnt of municipal docks and ware
houses, $l,15Q000 in the construction
OF modern municipal Office building,
fSo.00o for n municipal fire and police
telegraph system and building therefor,
while it is preparing plans for exten.
sions Of its park and boulevard system,
nccesslons to its public school facili-
tics and Il municipal auditorium, which
viii involve an expenditure of $780,
UC0. The transportation companies, the
United States government and the city
are to expcnd $50.000,000 in harbor and
terminal work.
Private enterprise has planned and IS
IN Process Of carrying out schemes OF
Improvement. including extension and
electrifylng Of local traction system,
the building of new business blocks, tho
bankers hotel. Young Men g Christian
association building: new shops of the
Pnliman company. pipe and steel works,
belt railway ship yards, cnr factories
ard other enterprises, which will mean
an expenditure Of more than $10,000,000
J IN the immediate future III Oakland.
| These enterprises have had stimu-
lating effect upon business, and real
| estate values. and have turned the at
tentlon of shrewd investors toward
| Oakland. AS result there has been
q large expansion in financial transac.
tions, so that Oakland lately leads every
other city in the percentage of increase
IN bank clearings, and 1T is shown by
the census to have been one of the cit"
les which has made the most rapid
| bn 1oSf "a
advent of the Western Pacific will be
an added factor in promoting the prog
ress and prosperity of Oakland.
San Francisco's Terminals.
From Oakland to San Francisco all
Western Pacific traffic, both passenger
and freight, will be ferried over For
the passenger business the new line will
use two slips of the Ferry building,
at the foot Of Market street, which is
owned by the state Of California On
the Oakland side the freight and pas
senger slips are together. at the end
of 4 mole about 1000 feet long lying
between the Southern Pacific company
mole. to the north, and the Southern
Pacific Coast railroad (Alameda) mole
to the south. These moles were built by
hydraulic dredging. The illustration
herewith fully explains the relative po-
stion.
On the San Francisco side the COM
pany has slips at the foot OF Brannan
street, will. small yard, and also at
the foot Of Twenty fifth street, from
which there is rail connection with
yard at Ninth and Bryant streets.
AT the foot of Braunan street piers 34
and Sc, the latter having a freight slip,
were built by the Western Pacific,
under an arrangement with the state
harbor commission. by which the rail
way company will have use of the
property for a term of years. Pier SO
is completed and pier "a. 650xl300 feet
III size, is in course of construction.
The pile work of this latter pier is
new and most interesting. The piles
are combination of wood and con-
crete, having 4 reinforced concrete shell
six inches or more thick around the
wooden pile. to protect it against
toredo work. and also to assist IL the
sustaining power.