San Diego, California, USA
1895 - San Diego

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 the interior. Its foreign commerce aggregates nearly $2,000,000 annually, and a large coastwise business is also done. Fruits, grains, olive oil, wool, honey, and hides are the chief articles of export. 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 and resort for invalids;. A daily sea-breeze tempers the same air, and the nights are agreeably cool. The maximum temperature is about 85° Fahr., the entire range of the thermometer being only about 50°. Pop. in 1890, 16,159; in 1894, 22,500. Four miles N. stands the town of old San Diego, within the city limits, the new town having mostly grown up since 1867.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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