Merchants' Association review . By joining the two, San Franciscosecures immediately, and with no expense formaintenance, 1,500 acres of the finest parklands in the world at a cost of little over halfa million dollars. It is worth the money half adozen times over. MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION REVIEW, OCTOBER, 1903. VOTE FOR SANITARY SEWERS. Proposed bond issue for drainage $7,250,000 Interest for forty years at S/z per cent 5,201,875 Probable average yearly tax on $1,000 for this purpose Increased tax for forty years on $1,000 worth of property estimated on an average assessment of $500,000,000
Merchants' Association review . By joining the two, San Franciscosecures immediately, and with no expense formaintenance, 1,500 acres of the finest parklands in the world at a cost of little over halfa million dollars. It is worth the money half adozen times over. MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION REVIEW, OCTOBER, 1903. VOTE FOR SANITARY SEWERS. Proposed bond issue for drainage $7,250,000 Interest for forty years at S/z per cent 5,201,875 Probable average yearly tax on $1,000 for this purpose Increased tax for forty years on $1,000 worth of property estimated on an average assessment of $500,000,000 .•i>^ii^,i;i;!Jlgl^l^^ tr. The best Index of bad drainage Is the mortality from typhoid fever. In San Francisco lastyear we had 107 deaths from this disease, or more than 25 to 100,000 of population. It hasbeen as high as 43. In crowded London the rate has been brought as low as 14 to 100,000 ofpopulation, and the people have complained bitterly because It was so OVERFLOW STORM-WATER WIKR, FOOT OF ARMY STREET There is little room for doubt that the peopleof San Francisco will support the bonding plan,as far as it relates to sewers, with a very decisivevote. In the straw ballot taken by the MerchantsAssociation this item has received one of thelieaviest majorities, and it is inconceivable thatIho general public will longer content itselfwith our disease-breeding drainage nuisancewhen a workable plan of improvement is of-fered. Although the estimate for the sewers islai-ger than the one prepared a few years ago,?A number of people have expressed some sur-jirise that an adequate system could be providedeven at an outlay of seven and a quarter mil-lions. How this can be done the pictures onthis i^age will in part explain. The overflow storm-water wier is, to a cer-iain degree, the key to the new drainage is the link between the new and the old whichwill make part of the old serviceable, and thenow economical. Through the installation of
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