14 REPORT OF PARK COMMISSIONERS 



The value of the 1013 acres of Golden Gate Park was $801,593 ; 

 of Buena Vista Park, 36 acres, $88,250; City Cemetery, 200 

 acres, $127,455; (new Lincoln Park of 150 acres, the Govern- 

 ment having purchased some of the land) ; Mountain Lake 19 

 acres, $19,330; public squares, 15 acres, $12,025; school lots, 

 68 acres, $115,077. The Great Highway reservation consists 

 of all that portion of the lands within the limits of San Fran- 

 cisco above the ordinary high water mark of the Pacific Ocean 

 (as the same existed July 7, 1846), which lies south of a line 

 drawn due south eighty-one degrees and thirty-five minutes 

 east magnetic through Seal Rocks, and west of a line easterly 

 not less than two hundred feet from ordinary high water mark. 

 Every section of the extension of the Ocean Boulevard on 

 the Great Highway or every rod of work on the breakwater 

 adds to the area of land owned by the city. Already much 

 land has been reclaimed from the ocean by reason of the sand 

 lodged against the embankment of the Boulevard. 



OCEAN BOULEVARD 



The Boulevard along the shore of the Pacific from the 

 Cliff House south to the County line is the dream of the land- 

 scape architect. It will be recognized and advertised as a 

 park feature unique, wonderfully beautiful, and readily ac- 

 cessible to a vast population. It is the desire of the Commis- 

 sioners to make the boulevard 250 feet wide. Reinforced con- 

 crete piers 30 feet in length are to be sunk a distance of 18 feet 

 in the sand. At the base of the closely placed piers there will 

 be lodged rough rubble stone to prevent erosion by the waves 

 of the ocean. The plans approved, or under construction, pro- 

 vide for building a balustrade on top of the concrete piers. 

 Immediately east of the balustrade railing a curb will desig- 

 nate the line of the pedestrian promenade, twenty feet wide. 

 Clusters of electric globes will light the pathway at night, 

 and lend beauty to the promenade in day. East of the foot 

 path there will be a magnificent driveway 150 feet wide, to 



