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 <big>'''Part 9 of Peter T. Seculovich in San Francisco'''</big>
 The railroads also persisted. Early in 1899, with its route to Santa Barbara approved the Southern Pacific firmed up its choice of route. The ''Chronicle'' borrowed Seculovich’s arguments:
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 <blockquote>For years schooners used to come two or three miles up the creek as far as the Mission road. When the Market-street Railway Company ran its line of cars out Kentucky street the passage of boats up and down the stream was effectually barred by a trestle built across it. The people of the Mission for years have sought to have this obstruction removed, and view with alarm the granting of a franchise to the railroad without some provision being made in the franchise for a drawbridge. This to some extent has already been done, as the franchise expressly states that upon demand the railroad must build a drawbridge over the creek. The City has accepted Kentucky street, as it is now constructed, so has the right to reconstruct the trestle over the creek at that point and replace it with a drawbridge. This it will be urged upon the Supervisors to do. A little aid from the Federal Government for the dredging of the stream, it is contended, will make Islais creek of immense benefit to the Mission in the way of bringing trade and giving a cheap rate for produce. (''Chronicle'', 8/8/1900)</blockquote>
 To the north of [[:category:Mission Bay|Mission Bay]], wharves for shipping lined the waterfront, but to the south, development was more diverse, a mix of small and large industrial and commercial enterprises, including boatworks building the ubiquitous scow-schooners and the slaughterhouses with their myriad ancillary industries. In 1885, the [[Union Iron Works at Potrero Hill|Union Iron Works]], the largest manufacturing plant of its time on the Pacific Coast, launched an 800-ton steamer. The “New Navy” of the 1890s, expanding US naval forces from coastal defense to ocean-going steel steamships, brought US government contracts to San Francisco for vessels such as the cruiser ''Olympia'' and the battleship ''Oregon'', celebrated in the [[SAN FRANCISCO'S ROLE IN THE WAR IN THE PHILIPPINES|Spanish American War]]. The increase in trade and traffic to Asia that accompanied that war and the subsequent conquest and occupation of the Philippines further raised the hopes of shipping interests even as the railroads were increasingly buying up both waterfront land and water lots.
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 The inlet is over a mile long and 200 feet in width. Its inner end is adjacent to the Mission district. It ought to be navigable for sea-going vessels, as the Merchants’ Association Review says, and all that is needed to make it so is dredging and the opening of drawbridges in the railroad trestling which now crosses it. It offers an opportunity to give the city over two miles of addition frontage and wharfage. If it were open to commerce to-day it would doubtless be used by many ships which are required to swing at their anchors in the bay until a berth of the present water front is vacant for them As Islais creek is navigable water, it is the duty of the Federal Government, of course, to improve it so as to be available to shipping, but we may have to wait years for Congress to move in the matter. Meantime our wants for the accommodation of ocean commerce are growing. It is proper, therefore, that the Supervisors should adopt suitable measures for the creek’s preservation, at least, until Congress is willing to appropriate money for its improvemen.t We must conserve every foot of the water front possibilities remaining, and Islais creek is undoubtedly one of them. (''Chronicle'', 1/6/1903)</blockquote>
 With a four-deck headline, the ''Chronicle'' announced subsequent calls for “opening of Islais Creek”:
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 That was Seculovich’s final public appearance that we know of, but he his interest in public affairs endured. In earlier years, he had joined different small reform parties, but in 1907 and 1908 he registered to vote in the Republican Party. Despite its long association with the railroads, it was also, at this time, the party of good government and opposition to corruption.
 ''All sources for this 10-part article appear at end of [[Peter T. Seculovich Passes#sources|Part 10]].''
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 [[Seculovich Conveys His Properties|Return to Part 8]] • [[Peter T. Seculovich Passes|Continue to Concluding Part 10]]
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	That was Seculovich’s final public appearance that we know of, but he his interest in public affairs endured. In earlier years, he had joined different small reform parties, but in 1907 and 1908 he registered to vote in the Republican Party. Despite its long association with the railroads, it was also, at this time, the party of good government and opposition to corruption.		That was Seculovich’s final public appearance that we know of, but he his interest in public affairs endured. In earlier years, he had joined different small reform parties, but in 1907 and 1908 he registered to vote in the Republican Party. Despite its long association with the railroads, it was also, at this time, the party of good government and opposition to corruption.

			''All sources for this 10-part article appear at end of [[Peter T. Seculovich Passes#sources\|Part 10]].''

Ccarlsson: Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Stephanie T. Hoppe'' ''Stephanie T. Hoppe is a former staff counsel to the California Coastal Commission and a great-great-granddaughter of Peter Seculovich.'' '''Part 9 of Peter T. Seculovich in San Francisco''' The railroads also persisted. Early in 1899, with its route to Santa Barbara approved the Southern Pacific firmed up its choice of route...."

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Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by Stephanie T. Hoppe'' ''Stephanie T. Hoppe is a former staff counsel to the California Coastal Commission and a great-great-granddaughter of Peter Seculovich.'' <big>'''Part 9 of Peter T. Seculovich in San Francisco'''</big> The railroads also persisted. Early in 1899, with its route to Santa Barbara approved the Southern Pacific firmed up its choice of route...."

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