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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 386, 12 August 1911, Page 7

San Francisco, the City of a Hundred Hills, has arisen undaunted from her ashes. It is true that between magnificient new biukl'ngs, gaping holes full of neatly-piled bricks and twisted ironwork stitl exist in many parts of the smitten area ; nevertheless the pessimists who asserted that San Francisco could never be rebuilt after the earthquake and fire of 1906 are being given the lie in fashion unmistakable. The clatter of the riveting-machines as they clamp together the covering skeletons of steel is incessant while daylight lasts ; and the work is unceasing even on Sundays. Th" number of buildings destroyed over an area of four square miles was 28,180; up to June, over 15,000 buildings had been erected in steel and concrete, or in concrete or stone alone, at a cost of £30,000,000, and San Francisco claims that, in proportion to its size, it has more fireproof buildings than any other city in the United States. —"The Graphic."