History of San Diego, California, USA

San Diego, a post-town, port of entry, and capital of San Diego county, California, on a buy, and on the main road from Sacramento City, about 470 miles in a straight line nearly S. E. from San Francisco. Lat. 32° 44* 41" N. Lon. 117° 8' W. The harbor afforded by San Diego bay is said to be the best on the coast after Acapulco. The bay is about 6 miles long and from 1 to 2 wide. The foreign arrivals at San Diego for tho year ending June 30th, 1852, were 29, (tons, 19,010,) 28 of which were by American vessels. The clearances for foreign ports for the same period were 13, (tons, 5169,) 12 of which were American vessels.

San Diego, a city and port of entry, the capital of San Diego co, Cal, and the second city in population and wealth in southern California, is situated on a beautiful bay of the Pacific Ocean, 450 miles S.S.E. of San Francisco, 127 miles S.S.E. of Los Angeles, and 15 miles from the Mexican frontier. Lat, 32° 41' N. The harbor of San Diego, one of the best in the world, formed by an inlet of the Pacific Ocean nearly 13 miles long, has a depth on the bar of 22 feet of water at low tide. Within its enri (unable to read) have been established a military post, quarantine station, 2 light-houses, a harbor jetty, and other government works and a system of fortifications for the locality has been approved by the war department.

San Diego contains a court-house, 6 banks, numerous hotels, 22 churches, an academy, 2 female seminaries." and electric street-railways, electric lights, &c. It is on the Southern California Railroad (Atchison system), besides which 5 other railways connect it with...

San Diego, a city, health-resort, and port of entry, the capital of San Diego co., Cal., is situated on a beautiful bay of the Pacific Ocean, 127 miles SSE. of Los Angeles and 15 miles from the Mexican frontier, on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the San Diego, Pacific Beach and La Jolla and other railroads... The harbor of San Diego covers upward of 20 sq. m. and within its environs have been established a military post (Fort Rosecrans), quarantine station, government works, and a system of fortifications for the locality. San Diego has a mild and genial climate, in which the orange, the fig, and the olive flourish. The equable temperature and balmy atmosphere render this city an excellent place for a sanitarium. The mean January temperature is 54 degrees and August 69 degrees. The city has an important foreign commerce, with several ocean-steamship lines, and various manufacturing industries. Fruits, olive, orange and lemon oils, citric acid, fertilizers, etc., are among the...

San Diego, Cal., Oct. 11. - Lieutenant WALTER R. TALIAFERRO, stationed at the United States army aviation corps school at North Island, fell 1,800 feet into San Diego Bay today and was killed.

TALIAFERRO ascended from the army hangars on North Island early today and had been almost continuously in the air, when about 11:30
o'clock his machine suddenly became unmanageable. The machine came down swiftly and fell into the bay about a quarter of a mile from shore. The water at this point is about fifty feet deep.

At nightfall divers from the U.S.S. San Diego had failed to bring to the surface the body of the Lieutenant. The aeroplane is fast in the mud 50 feet below the surface and a quarter of a mile from shore. The body is entangled in the machine.

Witnesses say TALIAFERRO was attempting to loop-the-loop when he lost control of the machine. Strapped fast to his seat, he had no chance to free himself.