Stockton, California, USA
1895 - Stockton

Stockton, a city of California, and the capital of San Joaquin co., is situated on the Central Pacific Railroad, in an extensive fertile plain (a part of the great central valley of California), 48 miles S. by E. of Sacramento, and 1: miles E. by N. of San Francisco. It is about 3 miles E. of the San Joaquin River, with which it is connected by * navigable channel. Lat. 37° 56' N.; lon. 121° 14' W. Two" lines of steamboats ply daily between Stockton and San Francisco. Stockton contains a fine granite court-house costing (1891) $350,000, 13 churches, a Jewish synagogue, 2 theatres, a national gold bank, 2 other banks, a saving: bank, a branch of the banking-house of Wells, Fargo & Co., a paper-mill, a woollen-mill, 4 flour-mills with a daily capacity each of about 1500 barrels of flour, 2 tannerie, 2 foundries, 3 planing-mills, extensive manufactures of farming-implements, wheels, street-cars, pottery (with a specialty of colored ware in fine goods and sanitary crocks), carriages, chairs, soap, &c. The city has also a high school, 7 grammar-schools, a state asylum for the insane with about 1400 patients, a convent, 2 public libraries, and printing: offices which issue 2 daily and 4 weekly newspapers. It is partly supplied with water by artesian wells (one of which is 1000 feet deep), and has 15 natural gas-wells, each yielding from 25,000 to 100,000 feet daily. The insane asylum has 2 wells giving 75,000 feet daily, which light and heat all the buildings. Stockton is the N. terminus of the Stockton & Merced Railroad, and is a terminus of the Copperopolis Railroad. Large quantities of wheat are shipped here. Pop. in 1870, 10,066; in 1880, 10,282; in 1890, 14,424; in 1893 (city census), 17,759.

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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