The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-11-15

Richmond's Deep Water Harbor and the Presence
There of Some of This County's Biggest Cor
porationS Assure an Enormous Amount of De-
veIopment Work Within the Coming Decade

ward 1t will make continuous auto
mobile highway into Berkeley and
Oakland. San Pablo avenue is already
paved with asphalt from the Alameda
county line. where a new business
,, center is developing. to Siege juno
/ ton The county will Immediately
4 pave that portion extending to the
4 city limits and the city that portion
/ inside the municipality
/ The Skyline boulevard. which runs
near the crest of the foothills from
Richmond to Berkeley and Oakland.
viii be ready before the opening of
the 1915 exposition. There is no more
majestic scenic property in the world
than this hill section of Richmond,
with its view of the bay and all the
cities upon it. 1t is expected that
people from all parts of the world
Will ride over this boulevard in auto
mobiles, seeing Richmond and the gem
cral panorama. The Skyline boulevard
VIII also extend to Mount Hamilton.
The Richmond end will be completed
with the construction of short link,
which will be decided as soon as the
papers are prepared. Every property
owner has willingly given rights of
way and Joined in the campaign to
construct the highway
n Il
Twenty third street will take up the
traffic of the highway across the city
and to the southern water front The
state boulevard will thus add another
large item of traffic to Twenty third.
which. it is declared, will be the per-
manent main croSstown street of Rich
mond. The viewers appointed by the
city council to widen this thorough
fare to 80 feet have finished their
work, and Twenty third street is now
that width its full length. 1t will be
paved with asphalt, and before long
the electric car line ON it will be
double tracked.
Every time you consider local trans
portation in Richmond the Key Route
enters into the consideration. This
system must eventually be extended
into Richmond. Next year will prob
ably see its trains entering this city.
The route has generally been accepted
as running somewhere between the
Pullman works and the foothills,
where the Realty Syndicate has a 40
acre tract that would answer admir-
ably for yards and shops. The line
would probably cross Twenty third
street about Roosevelt avenue. This
general route has been laid out by
the company itself, and will probably
prevail.
KEY ROUTE RIGHT OF WAY
Reservation by request of the COM
pany of a right of way for the Key
Route across the corner of a three
acre piece at the junction of Mac
donald and San Pablo avenues. re-
Gently sold by the Realty Syndicate.
is significant in connection with the
Key Route entrance into Richmond.
A joint station site for the Key" and
the Santa Fe system has been re-
served at this corner
The Southern Pacific company is
piling up more rails and other electric
road material for the line it is to con-
struct into Richmond in Cutting
boulevard. It has established a yard
for this material on it's right of way
reservation opposite the Pullman
works.
Additional local lines will probably
be constructed in Richmond during
the summer by the San Francisco
Oakland Terminal Railways company,
which owns the Key Route system.
and the company will resume its
double tracking operations here, 1t is
said. Richmond has as fine local
electric system as can be found any
where, with large, modern cars and
a fast service
SOON THIRD CITY ON BAY
Ten years Is a brief period in a
city's growth. but wonders can be
worked in that space of time in a
city with Richmond's advantages.
The expansion of this city during the
coming 10 years will make it the
third city in population on San Fran
cisco bay, 1t has been predicted.
The next 10 years are going to be
more replete with big development
fer the cities around the bay than the
80 preceding years have been. many
shrewd business men say. Richmond,
for well established reasons. will re-
ceive more of this. in proportion, than
any other community.