Excerpt from San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Activities, Vol. 2: Jan; 7, 1915

The Municipal Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Com merce for the past four months have been consulting Various people, especially improvement clubs, to determine what area in San Francisco can be adapted to and used for industrial track service without objection. The North Beach Promotion Association, North Central Improvement Association, Po trero Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association, Third Street District Improvement Association, Fourth Street District Im provement Association, and the Mission Promotion Associa tion have all endorsed the proposed plans for industrial tracks. This area contains approximately two thousand acres and doubles the present area used partially or entirely as a spur track area in this city. The owners of the present exposition site agree that this area may be better left to an industrial district than to anything else. The area north of the Ferry Depot, now sewed by spur tracks, contains fifty-four indus tries at the present time.

We propose to suggest to the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco to adopt this area as a zone in which spur tracks shall be granted. We have no doubt but what the carriers will continue to build spurs in this district under the contract under which they have built spur tracks in the past. It has been said that spur tracks cannot be granted in San Francisco. It is to remove this impression that we hope to have this zone created. The Board of Supervisors and the Street Committee have always been liberal in granting such permits. The only criticism may be that the Board of Supervisors are over cautious in ascertaining every objection from all citizens, as it delays the granting of such spur tracks. Under the recent decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission, San Fran cisco is to be congratulated as it frees her ah - d'puts her upon an equality with other cities on the Coast, in the abolishment of the switching charges of per car. These charges have always been free in Portland, Sacramento, Stockton.

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