Biennial report of the Board of State Harbor Commissioners for (1910) (14584416807)

Identifier: biennialreportof1910cali_1 (find matches)
Title: Biennial report of the Board of State Harbor Commissioners for ..
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: California. Board of State Harbor Commissioners for San Francisco Harbor
Subjects: California. Board of State Harbor Commissioners for San Francisco Harbor Harbors Waterfronts Shipping
Publisher: San Francisco : Winterburn & Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant



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he sections of seawall necessary to fill up the gap between Mis-sion street and Harrison street have been planned and the contractswill be let within the next two months. When this has been done, the Board will be in a position to availitself of its rights to the China Basin water front, elsewhere allud«Ml to. Belt Railroad. A very valuable part of the harbor system is the belt railroad locatedjust behind the seawall and intended to connect the wharves and,by spur tracks, serve also warehouses, wholesale merchants and othersin the port districts. All spur track permits, as they apply to citystreets, fall under the jurisdiction of the city authorities, but the con-struction, maintenance and operation of the belt railroad alonir thewater front are wholly under the jurisdiction of this Board. The belt railroad is intended to do all the switching and transferringof cars on the water front. The State owns the locomotives, but notthe ears, which belong to the respective railroad companies.
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REPORT OF BOARD OF STATE HARBOR COMMISSIONERS. 23 A Continuous Belt Road Around Harbor Point Planned and UnderConstruction. When this Board took office there were two entirely disconnecteddivisions of the belt road, one north of Market street running fromMason street to Jackson street, the other south of Market street, run-ning from Harrison to Second street. The desirability of connectingthe two divisions by a connecting link across Market street was soonseen to be imperative. When it is desired to transfer a car of merchandise from one divisionto the other, because consigned to a merchant, or to be shipped to theother division to sea, or upon the inland waters of the State, it isnecessary to switch the car onto the belt railroad in one division, thenload it on a freight ferryboat, operated by the Southern Pacific Com-pany, upon which it is carried around the bay front, then land it onthe belt road in the other division and thence to its destination. This, manifestly, is a laborious,