The San Francisco call., 1910-06-25
Sewer and ROAD
WORK IS ORDERED
Railway and Harbor Facilities
Make Section Great Site
for Factories
By w. ]. BARRETT,
Secretary Potrero Commercial and Man.
ufactures association

great step for the improvement of
the Potrero district will soon be taken.
The board of works will construct a
sewer in Kentucky street from Mari
posa to the bridge at Fourth street.
In connection with the improvement
the Southern Pacific company will
raise the grade of the west side of
Kentucky street to a level with the
tracks of the United Railroads A
great stagnant pool that accumulates
every rainy season from the bridge to
Sixteenth street will be done away
with. This has been a source of peril
to pedestrians and to vehicles Its
abolition is matter of general
congratulation, for the stagnant waters
have constituted an intolerable nui-
sance.
Illinois street from Fifteenth to
Twenty third has been for years a
ver1table slough of despond," that has
engulfed in it's capacious NAV many
a hapless wagon. Now this thorough
fare will be paved with basalt blocks.
The Santa Fe railway company will
begin on June 1 the work that will
emancipate the thoroughfare from the
old time conditions.
Something like six months will be
taken to complete the paving of SIlli-
nois street. The work has been recon-
mended by the board of works and the
street committee of the board of su-
pervisors.
TO REMOVE BIG ROCK
The hill of rock at Twentieth and
Kentucky streets, sometimes called
King mountain" because of the inter-
est the business manager of the Po-
trero Commercial and Manufactures
association has taken in the subject
of its removal, will be removed
A petition has been forwarded by the
Potrero Commercial and Manufactures
association toSthe board of supervisors
to narrow the sidewalks in Kentucky
street from Fourth to Twentieth from
Is to II feet. SO that six feet more may
be given to the roadway, which is
traversed by many teams.
On April II w. w. Montague & Co.
was given six months in which to re-
move its buildings in Kentucky street.
The manifest destiny of the Potrero
district, to become a great manufactur-
ing and commercial center on a much
greater scale than 1t now is, should
prompt those in control of the city's
affairs to see that 1T is made as acces-
sible as possible, especially along its
main streets. There is much that can
be done to benefit not only the Potrero,
but the entire city.
RAILWAYS AND HARBOR
The Potrero has been too much over
looked in the past, but the actions OF
three transcontinental railway systems
show that it's value, derived from it's
extensive water frontage and the large
area that it supplies for factory, ware
house and other sites connected with
the commercial advancement of the
city, is duly appreciated outside of its
own immediate boundaries. Terminal
facilities have been eagerly sought and
secured in the Potrero by the trans
continental railways. The sheltered
harbor 1t is proposed to construct will
make 1t even more important. It will
add very largely to the welfare of all
portions of San Francisco by furnish
ing facilities on a large scale for the
promotion of commerce and for the ex-
tension and encoura cement of local
manufactures, of which San Francisco
is in need, as such institutions always
stimulate growth and increase the
financial Importance of the community
that possesses them.
The present manufactures of the
Potrero rank high in the matter of in
vested capital. in the values of products
annually turned out and in the number
of men who are given employment The
industrial plants in the Potrero are of
the first magnitude. There is land
enough available and water frontage
sufficient to provide these and many
more with all the facilities that will be
required for many years to come