SAN FRANCISCO HARBOR

And now, friends, take a brief look at one of the grandest harbors in the whole world-one that lumber has had much to do with creating and maintaining-the mighty harbor of San Francisco, and of its rapidly growing and potentially great sister city, Oakland.

From a purely scenic standpoint, no harbor on earth ranks ahead of San Francisco. The eye that, from the heights on either side of that impressive waterway where ships from all the rvorld drop anchor or grip the docks, looks upon San Francisco harbor and Golden Gate without a mighty thrill, lacks much of the joy of living.

And from a strictly practical standpoint, San Francisco harbor admits precedence in usefulness and facility to no other harbors on the seven seas.

For one hundred and fifty-three years the ships of the world have been using this harbor as a haven, the first vessel to enter San Francisco Bay having been the Spanish schooner "San Carlos", in 1775.

The first harbormaster was appointed in 1837.

The first cargo of lumber of which the San Francisco authorities have any record as entering the bay, was that which the brig "Belfast" brought in from New York in

September, 1848. This ship tied up at a crude jetty, since there was yet no wharves, at Clark's Point. This jetty was built of Redwood. Some of the lumber in this cargo was used for building homes for some of the pioneers of San Francisco, while some of it went to the construction of the Broadway Wharf, which was built the next year, 1849.

The first state board of harbor commissioners was created by an act of the Legislature in 1863.

It would have been hard to foresee at that date the great fleet of lumber carriers that is in use today for the tiansportation of many millions of feet monthly of the forest products of the Pacific Northwest to this harbor.

San Francisco harbor has been known to navigators for more than a century as one of the three greatest natural harbors of the rvorld. It is owned and operated by the State of California under the management of the Board of State Harbor Commissioners. It is the only harbor in the United States where all the activities, including the State Belt Railroad, are co-ordinated under a single control. It is self-supporting and operated on a non-profit basis.

The harbor facilities include 41 piers, and the waterfront is 10 miles long. Two piers are under construction. Pier will be 1300 feet long and first unit, will be 623 feet The first mentioned will vessels regularly entering

No. 45 will cost $2,000,000, and 382 feet broad, and Pier No. 48, long and will cost $1,250,000. accommodate four of the largest the harbor.

The matter of the construction of a lumber terminal which would provide better facilities for handling lumber at this port is under consideration by the Board of State Harbor Commissioners.

Cargo arrivals of Douglas Fir and other Northwestern woods for the last yeal are as follows: