260 [OcTOBER 22, 1898. HOW SAN FRANCISCO DISPOSES OF ITS GARBAGE. The contrast between the methods by which New York and San Francisco, divided by three thousand miles and situated the one on the western shores of the Atlantic, the other on the eastern shores of the Pacific, dispose of their… … municipal authorities finally decided to sell to the highest bidder a franchise for the term of fifty years for the sanitary destruction of this material. has been sunk upon the premises furnishing pure water, and with a capacity of 10,000 gallons per day. A rag cleaning and bottle cleaning plant…
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