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Title: San Francisco, the financial, commercial and industrial metropolis of the Pacific Coast: official records, statistics and encyclopedia
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.) -- History San Francisco (Calif.) -- Description and travel San Francisco (Calif.) -- Economic conditions
Publisher: (San Francisco : H.S. Crocker Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Alcalde,or mayor and judge, learning that another settlement was tobe started farther up the bay under the name of Franc< SCa, after General Vallejos wife, and fearing some loss of prestige to his city thereby, declared it was time to drop the nit aningh ssname of Verba Hnena and call the young metropolis SanFrancisco. Much was in ;i name. The founders of Franc sea*were forced to change their plans, and look the ladys other name.Benicia; and the ships that cleared for San Francisco Baynaturally dropped anchor before the city that bore the harborsdesignation. California was ceded to the United States in 1848. In March Thf. rnxuo ol that year San Francisco had about 820 people. 200 houses, a school, a newspaper, and two wharves. A Bfty-vara lot (137%feet square) north of Market street could be obtained by alcalde grant for $16, which included recording tees. Smith of Mark- tstreet a hundred-vara lot could be had lor $29. Within two years there were over 20,000 people in the city, 13
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SAN FRANCISCO I III. FINANCIAL, COMMERCIAL and(ND1 STRIAL METROPOLIS of the PACIFK COAST mid there were three daily papers, seven churches, two theati rs;iikI ,i jail. Steamers were running on the bay, and chargingtwenty dollars to take a passenger to Sacramento. By Juljover 200 square-rigged vessels had com. into port. Withinseven and one-half months 697 vessels arrived. Man) wendriven on the beach and abandoned. The whalemen had t<»quit S;ni Francisco For Honolulu For Fear of losing their crews.Some of tin deserted ships became hotels and nineteen wenused For warehouses. Commercially the city had leaped to tinimportance of Philadelphia. It was ns though the gianl \oice of some primeval world Foiwith .-ill the winds of ocean back f it. had thundi red Sl< ep nomore! Indeed, with the breakfast eggs al a dollar apiece, colbeds ;it five dollars a night, and labor ;it twenty dollars a day,nobody could afford to sleep. In 1849 $2,000,000 in gold was exported and the same amo

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