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Identifier: biennialreportof1936cali_0 (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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ptain ofthe Port by Governor Mariano Goudeloupe Vallejo. In 1849 the harbor was filled with ships—idle because their crews deserted to become miners in the great goldrush. The ships grounded at the wharfs, became shops, hotels, warehouses, sunk in the mud and were built over;the growing city was born in the sea. In that year the first steamer, California, began to ply between Panama andSan Francisco. Men of middle age today who are still active in the shipping and commerce of the port can remember whenthe waterfront was a forest of tall masts and long spars, with their hempen foliage. The fleets brought coal and carriedto Europe Californias staples of wheat and wool. Gradually the sails were reefed before the intrusion of steam and electricity. The sprawling docks of the earlyperiod gave way to modern harbor development started when the State took over control in 1863. Today manymiles of great modern piers jut out into San Francisco Bay. REPORT OF BOARD OF STATE HARBOR COMMISSIONERS
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LOADING SACKED BARLEY AT THE STATE GRAIN TERMINAL, ISLAIS CREEK, FOR DELIVERY IN FOREIGN MARKETS REPORT OF BOARD OF STATE HARBOR COMMISSIONERS 17 STATE GRAIN TERMINAL Installation and maintenance of modern terminal facilities designed to aid the farmers of California in marketingtheir seasonal crops with speed and economy, is a policy to which the San Francisco Harbor Board is definitely com-mitted. As a result of the affluent production of grain, particularly barley, in the Central Pacific Area, there are seasonsof the year when these field crops for export move through the Port of San Francisco in large volume. Ships and barges full-laden with bulk and sacked barley move down the rivers into San Francisco Bay fromthe Central Valley regions of California and discharge their loads at the State-owned Islais Creek Terminal. Theplant is given over almost entirely to the handling of barley. Here the barley is given necessary treatment before being reloaded for shipment abroad or across-co

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