Download or read book San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Journal, Vol. 1 written by San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Journal, Vol. 1: November, 1911 October, 1912 American cities having over population alone pay out over a billion dollars each year. For several years the bonded debt of the city New York has in amount closely bordered our national debt. The city of New York has twice as many employees on her payroll as our national government has in the city of Washing ton. The city oi Chicago pays out of her various municipal treasuries each year approximately four times the amount we paid Napoleon for Louisiana and eight times the amount we paid Russia for Alaska. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.