San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Supervisors · San Francisco, Cal. : Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco · leaf 310
s present fine s\stem of docks. By December of 1849, ^OO feet had been built, whenin June of that \ear a fire destro\ed a considerable por-tion of it. B\ the latter part of that year it had beenextended 2000 feet and cost over $ 180,000. Largevessels, for that time, howe\er, could lay alongside of… … n the early fifties. ings of a madman, than the plain, dull realities witnessed. Happy the man who can tell of those things whichhe saw and perhaps himself did, at San Francisco, at thattime. He shall be an oracle to admiring neighbors. Acity of twenty or thirty thousand inhabitants improvised•—the…
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