The estimated value of the various lines is said to be over fourteen millions of dollars.
These cars are excellent in service, and they climb up the hills of San Francisco with perfect ease.

You feel, on some of the lines, as ascent is so steep, that the car is about to stand on end, and you cling to your seat lest you lose your balance; but you are perfectly safe.

They will take you in every direction as they run through all principal streets and out to Golden Gate Park and the Cliff House as well as to distant points in the suburbs of San Francisco.
Away back in the early days of the city the Mission was reached by a plank road from the shores of the Bay; but now you ride to its doors in comfort.

The Mission Dolores located in the western part of the city will always be a place of special interest.

It carries you back to 1776, the same year in which the American Colonies declared themselves to be free and independent of Great Britain.