The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-11-15
Next Decade to
Be Best In
History

| bonds by the whole city will probably
be voted for this purpose.
The business district at Macdonald
avenue and Twenty-third street prob
| ably shows the greatest Improvement
for the last few months. In addition
to the excellent paving and width of
| this best thoroughfare, there are sew
eral new business blocks completed
and others in the course of construc-
ton that produce a skyline that awak-
ems the civic pride of every Richmond
citizen
PANAMA CANAL HELPS
The benefits that will come to all OF
California by reason of the opening of
the great Panama canal, through
which the first ship will pass next
spring, is stupendous almost beyond
the grasp of the ordinary intellect. 1t
means millions of new people, millions
of new dollars and the quick doubling
of the population and wealth of the
state. with prosperity for the future.
as sure and certain as the rising Of
the sun and the setting thereof.
California's greatest need is the de-
velopment of its natural and latest
resources. and this can only be
brought about by the coming of many
hundreds of thousands of men who
will turn the sod Of the waiting acres
upside down and make 1t laugh with
| the bountiful harvests which this soil
and this climate always assures in re-
turn for honest and intelligent work.
Are they coming? Every ship yard
in America and Europe is answering
this great question in the Affirmative.
| This is what the news dispatches are
saying about it:
| The Hamburg American line is
building 10 10000 ton passenger car
riers for the canal trade between Eu-
rope and the Pacific coast; the Royal
Mail Steamship company of England
is building the same number; the
| North German Lloyd and the Cunard
| lines are preparing for canal-coast
traffic; the Norwegian American line
has launched two 10000 ton steam
ships; the Lloyd-Brazilierio, the Bra
lillian government line; the Lloyd
Subado line, all will ply between Eu-
rope and the Pacific coast.
ON GREATEST BAY
! San Francisco bay is one of the
greatest bays in the world. San Fran
cisco is the greatest commercial city
on the Pacific coast. These two facts
alone assure this great world travel
and monster ocean traffic for this i'm
mediate bay region. San Franchises
port is already overcrowded and she
bay ports for help in dockage. What
must it be when ships of all the
known world. from every foreign port.
are coming through the Panama canal
and plying up this coast. dropping an
Choir in this bay? All that spells pros
| perity for every port around the bay,
as well as many others along the
coast. 1t means more for Richmond
| than Richmond now even dreams of.
1t means a great city here, teeming
and throbbing with industry and COM
! merce.
| We are very soon to face a new and
great problem in immigration. Angel
island is to be another Ellis island.
The whole state will be called upon to
! take care of these hundreds of thou
sands of pepole from all parts of the
world. to set them to work tilling the
soil and building up this great west
ern empire. upon which the eyes OF
the world are now being focused
This Pacific coast is the worlds most
desirable living place Climate, re-
sources, lower prices of living than
many other states and the present
lack of adequate population all COM
| bine to make this true. And now,
with the lowered cost of transporta-
ton incident TO the completion of the
| canal, men and women of the older
| civilization are to come direct to this
coast California can support the
whole population of England in addi-
ton to her own, better than it is sup
ported now.
LOW WATER RATE
The cost of transportation of COM
modities from New York to San
Francisco by way of the Panama
canal will be less than the corre-
spending cost at present from New
| York to Pittsburg. The Pacific coast.
| and especially the bay region thereof,
is to fall heir now to the tremendous
Industrial development which has
made the eastern states what they
are, and which has been due to two
| things--easy access to the travel of
the world and cheapness of transpor-
| tation.
The opening of the Panama canal
and the holding OF the Panama-Pa-
cific exposition mean for California
| for the bay region and all Its towns
and cities. including Richmond as
among the very best, future great
ness and prosperity such as no other
| spot in all this wide, wide world
can confidently look forward to with
the absolute surety which we of this
favored section already have.
RICHMOND. Nov. 15.-The inspec-
| ton made by Secretary of the Navy
Daniels in his recent visit of the navy
! base site recommended by Captain
| Pond commander of the district and
| the Standard Oil company's pipe line
| terminals. have resulted in a firm be-
I lief among Richmond business men
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