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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 9 November 1907, Page 3

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1 lie Vxiuu Viaa XaLCU bV eie.y itcidellt u 1 caii f'raucisco auei luc grej.i arc 01 Apru Is, ±Mv, was tuc iiXOot. eluptuuom iuui uva - jiiaced J a Luimuuimy. 1- jit a_> Uiat, lite an overvlose oi a viokui toiic, ' u sceiiu to bring its cure Jii Hs wake. ) It seemed as 11 there wc/c nothing ' ielt. lheretore there was liiucil to do, r ami this must be done at once. Xradi- [ uons and remembrance nave given niudi . to the Calilornian of to-day, and the J dan Franjiican re called tne old days oi t the pioneers, the days of 'i'J, the suirics r they had heard of previous burnings, , aiui hutv in lu turii each conilag:atiuU , had been faced by the public in an un- , ilmrhing manner, and how each time a , better, a cleaner, and a larger city had. I arisen in the ashes of the past, i "Three thousand acres oi compactly | built wood, iron, steel, wood, brick and , stone have been swept away. All pubi lie utilities were rendered useless in two nights or paralysed into inaction. The i property loss was upwards of five million dollars. Of all the magnificent structures that had made San Francisco noted all over the world only a bare dozen of buildings remained, and most of these (the class of steel structure) h:id been gutted by lire, 'That's another story! It is past and gone, and only a memory, nnd not a pleasant memory! The San Franciscan resolutely turned his bick on the ; past and faced his future, and with a determination and an energy that has never been equalled in tli. world's his- j tory, and he set himself to accomplish the task of clearing away the countless bricks and the mountain-high piles of i broken granite and limestone, the , twisted steel and iron to make room ; for the new city. And the new city ] came. First the temporary, ugly, low, \ woodem structure, with little or no ar- , chitectural beauty, and then, when the , ll ™ e toe to take a breath and look i about, the new and more pretentious l business structures began springing up ln a| l directions, as the result of his la- 1 bors. , a fliini - ? liv Won wrou<rli! in ■ art Praneiseo in on« y»;?r '-= emnrit 1 be JoM in words. Tt takes a jiirtur" ! to tell this wonderful story. Some i.le.i , <*f_ !l immense amount of building ] g"i»S on at the present time may be obtained from the figures given out I>r the. city authorities. There have been i.'siied innumerable permits to built and the value of these aggregates 57,30,000 dollars. More than 7,000,000 dollars has been spent in rehabilitation. estimated that the under-valuation being added to the value given fin asking for building permits), would raise the figure to sixty million dollars. These were the offieia! firfujes and e j ti- t mates made since that time of building ; permits granted have raised the figures i to more than 75,000.000 dollars. i "During one month the aggregate vnfne in building permit? amounted to i 8,2f13.R80 dolars, and if we add 15 per 1 eent for under-valuation we are given f the figures of !>,454,452 dollars, a good 1 showing for one month. This shows s up well as a sample month, and the nam-' ln>r of transfers are jjiven as 800, and, t the value of 4.100.000 dollars. . . . n 'Aithin the boundaries of ten blocks li tliere are more than one hinndred and -s fifty buildings in course of eon- o -miction, not one of uhii-b is to lie less ".an fiv- .storeys liif.li, an.) some of n •'hieh will l.:ne twenty «torey.. n Franeisen can employ all rnmers (> f-.r at least five years, and'thc popula- h ti->i thus added, will remain In (lie ei California will reeeive an im- i\ irf't'is through the fire that h.rs *ent it In jorwar.l by leaps and bounds, an?! more ti peonle have eome to settle on farms n and handle its nirieiiltural [mssjliilitjus tliW ever in the year of it* former hi*- n tnrV. ft ht* Wn tfot. n« ft farV" the bu-ine-p district, i- concerned. la ami finding the lodgini-hou-e*. Tint'»• [ nnd rT-tilpTK'--, the city ha* been prneti- ! rally tone-half rebuilt nnd th.it in another year hut littlo trace *»f the fire will mnain in the business district oflj® 4 " San Fr&pico.—Newsletter.; « m