BUILT UPON RECLAIMED LAND
(SPECIAL TO "THI PRESS.") DUNEDLN, Ajpril 20. San has been subject to "seismic dtstiu-'bances of a more or less sever© nature. Mr G. Brett, of Gore, who lived there for several years in tho seventies, remembers moro than one during his stay, and the fear of a big quake was ever present. The cause is the uiii-itable foundation upon which the ibusiness part of th© city is built, much of it bring reclaimed land. An earthquake of moderate destnictiveness eisewhero would to felt with increased severity in San Fr__ncisco. Over half a anile cf reclaimed land stretches between the high halls that formed the original San Francisco and the water's edge of San Francisco Bay, and it. is on tlhis area that the earthquake has caused such unprecedented ruin.
The oi-iginal site was so uninviting that the pioneers doubted if ever a place of any importance could spring up there, but its geographical position, hacked as it was by one of the fines* harbours in the world, destined it for a city of great possibilities, if capable of 'being made such by reci_nation of the •and washed by the shallower waters of the bay.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12484, 21 April 1906, Page 10
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