AND PACIFIC COAST GUIDE.

 

large illustration of “Birds Eye view of
San Francisco, and surrounding country.’’)
Oakland Wharf—is on the end of
this pier. Until the building of a pier at
this place, the only harbor of Oakland was
to the eastward, at the mouth of San
Antonio Creek, the water to the westward
being quite shallow for a long distance
from shore. The ferry-boats leave and ar-
rive to and from San Francisco, at this
wharf every half-hour, and trains, many
times composed of 18 or 20 passenger cars,
run in connection with the boats to Oak-
land, Berkley, and other points.
THE Prer—is built of the best materials,
and in the most substantial manner, with
double track and carriage-way extending
the whole length. There are three slips.
The one to the north is 600 feet long, and
will accommodate the largest ships, the
water being 2614 feet in depth at low tide,
and 82 athigh tide. On each side ofthe slip
are erected large warehouses, one of them
600x52 feet, the other 500x52 feet with
tracks running through, for the purpose of
loading and discharging.
The next slip south was built to accom-
modate the “THorouGcHFARE.” ‘This

miles to the city of San Francisco. (See
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steamer was designed expressly for taking
freight cars and cattle across the bay. Her
oy is 16 loaded cars and pens for 16
car-loads of cattle—288 head—making 32
car-loads in all. She once made a trip
across the bay, loaded, running a distance
of three and a half miles in 22 minutes.
The boat is 260 feet on deck, 38 feet beam,
with flat bottom. The engines are 200
horse power ; cylinders, 22x84, and were con-
structed at the company’s shops in Sacra-
mento.

The south slip is the passenger slip,
where lands the regular ferry-boat between
Oakland and San Francisco. On each
side of this slip is a passenger-house—one
30x70 feet, the other 40x50 a In these
buildings are located the division offices of
the Railroad Company. They afford ample
accommodations for passengers, and the
enormous travel, the advance guard of
which has only just commenced to arrive.

The first ship that loaded at this pier
was the “Jennie Eastman,” of Bath, Eng-
land. She commenced loading August
4th, 1870, for Liverpool, with wheat,
brought—some from San Joaquin Valley,
but the greater portion from the end of the
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