The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 26, 1899, Page 25

ety natter of business and industrial prosperity San much to be thankful for this year. Hardly e N a twelvemonth In its history when more of "OETess In the lines upon which the greatness and power of a city rest has been achleved. The espec 1 ar has been the blossoming of that gen k o erity, which g. Now y at hand ! st nowhere more 4 the es ¥ dealers. More ed ir ¥ 1s been the case since re been s0 many wage- - ! ged hich are s . ¥ £ . ME $34.202,661 M dities the Increase of ex- cattle sent away in 18\ $4000. In 1899 $ t $7000 went & ing in 189§ ¥ ) ) in 1899 # worth of sheep went exported irticles of ex- ¥ " n is instruc- t ¢ include the avy or . ¥ United States Excess of 155 over 1898, Agricu ements 6,000 I 0 i C 154,000 13,000 . 7.000 s 4 shoes 5,000 ed bee 1,000 Leese 46.000 N 120000 £ 3 80000 Onions 51,00 ¥ ” 60,000 x 22,000 5,000 21000 3 ?.m 7.000 3 b 17,000 £ .00 5,000 360,000 70000 Ba bl 189,000 109,000 It may be observed that the exports as shown above are becoming largely diversified. Time was when the only produss PopUiation Qapital HAWAIIAN ‘& ISLAN D?, bt Qommerce Industries y Things for Which San Francisco Sholld Give Thanks. worthy of regard as a shipping article issuing from this port was wheat. Besides this one commodity the others did not amount to much. It Is not so now. Foreign trade Is growing, and more pronounced is this a fact 9 than ever before. The wheat shipment in 1508 was $4,92 189, owing to crop shortage, as stated, it was $2 le still the largest shipping product it has sunk npared with the bulk of other commodies 8 p t of the total exports. The wheat crop of the present year in volume to the average years of the past, a ing better. It will thresh about §75,000 about $0.000 registered tons of shi grain, and 200,000 tons more are at bound for the Gate. Indeed, the shipping situation Is one phenomena now manifest In this stat The trade between San Francisco and Hawal in the past nine months that there exists a 2 rth of bottoms in which to carr s t to the islands. A year or more ag In 1 about sel going *“‘down to the islands 4 it procured freig hough to afford | t B sugdr, and cale that tb w ' ex penses. But this phase of t ; stead of lacking ca th G 1 wales, and space in Francisco shi ver, will shortly the relief afforded by such cargoes as ¢ being relegated to In the congestion which exists among \ P ping no t IS taken of the Ph yet ¥ fest mal the sides there s 1 bt that it w shipping business, which 11 be trade if it does not very greatly s a great but indefinite s trade; It Is az the past year in t i that it>has leazed the Market and 8 e its go h 70,060 all the food be real commis Septem sent away carried a « mated value at $1,500,000. This revival of trade has come t fhe most gradual degrees. It may be said breaking out of e war, t gh t conditions for the state Kinley did much to allay nerv industrial ¢ naugurating new ent beom, which was the v Alaska, a develc new and appar ny hither n trade of £ nci; millions vear, and may in a the values of virgin gold whict that ¢ mates of rta millions of dollars. While is used in buy undoubtadly much ¢ not so used is dou for new prospect In settlem Follc affairs in ensued the ) the trade oppe that many « markets there ity as characte These char has been r remarked shows the s a tendency to raise the prices of r ) the e busine ed exter late ypment itly unlimited 99 thi anspired egul e There s ne gage In a commo money in cir Being to handle the freight off upon them; the congestion » the bay, awaiting ck reason of lack of e a necessitated : ire of an entirely : derbilt line—long he V or some other sub tles necessary tie anta Fe Rallroad 1 p is coming to San 1 lend some ease to the situs 1 in progress at that terminus ” operations at that point will . ity of the ba Oakland's ra . it is the bay terminus of the m ¥ system . side towns Alameda and Berkeley ar rflow settlements from that The rece tation for the f the two na al political conventions in Fr brought out the fa that the two transcontinental < xed to their full capacities with business w 1 her chances of getting the conveation: . flatly expressed their inability to perform t g k which would be demanded as a result biles. The situation makes a poor Lg sibilities of the long desired trans-Pacif - is achieved—which might be one of reser P 1900—the foreign telegraphing of I \ s San Francisco, and with lr t « . ¥ wa evolved by two or three hundred men gathered or . it can hardly be expected t ich succe . 2 in delivering the corresponde: tween the Occident and the Orient. The present rise of business will force an ex pansion of the telegraph systems cov ng this city with the East, and this fact may be taken as one of the most desirable achievements to be effected through the development of ac- tivities in 1899, The population of San Francisco during 189 has increase is estimated, about 40,000. The census of 150 gave the city 000; upon the basis of a registration of 70,000 the populat now 350,000 It is unhappily the fact that for the first fi of the present decade the accretion to the city's very slow. No more conspicuous or striking feature was evi- denced In the city than the large number of “to let” signs dis- played upon the windows of vacant residence houses and th corresponding “to lease” notices upon the business blocks the lower rcaches of the city. “To and )y lease” s are yet seen by the tourist on his rounds, but he must look for them. They are not obtruded upon his notice, nor do tt glare upon him at every hand, as of yore Industrial activity has asserted ftself spicuous emphasis than in the business ¢ at San Francisco. A comparat several departmer 1508 and 1599 shows reaily striking over 1898 being about 10 per cent b 3 337 for the previous y of mail handled In 18 pess divided into its s no more con- the Postoffice turns of the There were & 511,550 In 1895.. This busi- veral heads presents Itself as follow 188, Excess, Money orders issued 97,590 35,230 Amounts ...... $1.274,952 Stamps sold Registered pieces delivered. Pieces registered here From all quarters, wherever “tabs” are kept on business, there come cheering reports that comparison o s shows strong advances of 1599 over those of 1568 satisfactory estimates are those furnished by the impressions of the business men themselves. Upanddown the wholesale streets the opinion is expressed that trade better by from per cent than last fall. Around on the retail streets t chants give the same replies. All talk of a he best in years.” and generally the feeling Is that the ac- tivities are not evancscent. “They cam staple, steady way; they will remain steady.” sald one merchant. The influ. ences which brought this activity are permanent. They are the opening of demands for goods in the islands of the Pacifis and in the Orfent, a new era coming upon the coast, of which Ban Francisco is but now experiencing & foretaste. —— e —.. JOHN E. BENNETT, . - 4