Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . ^ have been many years inthis department. The field work andspecial projects are under the direc-tion of Harold J. Stahle ; all publicand private street improvement of-fice work is in charge of James SI.()\vens; the designing and adjust-ment of all official street grades areunder the direction of Geo. F. Stahle; Wm. D. Evans is in charge offield records; A. L. Auradou, cartographic work; J. C. Gard, keeperof records, and Charles A. Gardiner (whose father, James J. Gardiner,Avas City Engineer in 1852) is employed in this THE DIVISION OF SU
Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . ^ have been many years inthis department. The field work andspecial projects are under the direc-tion of Harold J. Stahle ; all publicand private street improvement of-fice work is in charge of James SI.()\vens; the designing and adjust-ment of all official street grades areunder the direction of Geo. F. Stahle; Wm. D. Evans is in charge offield records; A. L. Auradou, cartographic work; J. C. Gard, keeperof records, and Charles A. Gardiner (whose father, James J. Gardiner,Avas City Engineer in 1852) is employed in this THE DIVISION OF SURVEY Bv Chas. H. I-Iolcomb The first sur\ey of San Francisco, or as it was then called, YerbaBuena, was made in 1839, bounded by ^Montgomery, Pacific, Sacra-mento and Dupont streets, eight square blocks. The city limits wereextended from time to time, and in 1862 a commission, known asthe Board of City Engineers, was created by an act of State Legis-lature for the purpose of determining and fixing the street lines. In 1868 the Ijoard of Supervisors, through a commission ap-pointed by them, directed the extension of the city limits to whatis now called the Ocean Boulevard, securing a large number of lotsand blocks for fire houses, school houses and public parks, includ-ing our famous Golden Gate Park, which covers more than 1000 acres. The city limits were extended to the county line by the Con-solidation Act, April 19, 1856, covering 29,392 acres in land and51,888 acres in water, making a total of 81,280 acres. Before the charter went into effect, the City Engineers
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