. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. having a total area of approximately 941,786 square feet, of the value ofabout five million dollars, together with the tract of about 25 acres,leased for 50 years in the year 1900 to The Atchison, Topeka and SantaFe Railway Companj^ as its China Basin terminal. The piers and bulkhead wharves offer about miles of berthingspace at the present time, and the system can be expanded, as the popu-lation and commerce demand, until it will cover quite 50 miles. State Lands Adjoin
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. having a total area of approximately 941,786 square feet, of the value ofabout five million dollars, together with the tract of about 25 acres,leased for 50 years in the year 1900 to The Atchison, Topeka and SantaFe Railway Companj^ as its China Basin terminal. The piers and bulkhead wharves offer about miles of berthingspace at the present time, and the system can be expanded, as the popu-lation and commerce demand, until it will cover quite 50 miles. State Lands Adjoining. By the progressive construction of a permanent seawall around thewater front on the line fixed by law, important land areas between itand the previously existing city front have been reclaimed and becomethe property of the state and have been devoted to harbor uses. Many of these have been rented and leased to railroads and ware-houses, etc., at remunerative figures, and some have been reserved forthe use of the State Belt Railroad in its switching operations. 10 REPORT OF BOARD OF STATE HARBOR PART I. Report of the Board. 12 REPORT OF BOARD OF STATE HARBOR COMMISSIONERS.
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