To the golden land; sketches of a trip to Southern California (1889) (14803137933)

Identifier: togoldenlandsket00stor (find matches)
Title: To the golden land; sketches of a trip to Southern California
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Storey, Samuel
Subjects: California, Southern -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : W. Scott
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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The population of San Diego in 1850 was 650;in 1875, 2500; in 1888, 32,000. It is laid out on a planin broad streets at right angles, covering the flat land onthe east of the bay and the rising ground beyond ; themain streets are being rapidly paved ; the whole city isadmirably sewered with thirty-eight miles of glaced terra-cotta pipes, the surface water flowing separately from thesewerage; there are excellent tramcar and telephoneservices ; the streets are lighted by gas and the electriclight; an ample supply of drinking water has been broughtfrom the Cuyamaca Mountains, fifty miles away, by anaqueduct or flume, partly of red-wood open casing andpartly of iron pipe; the city is the proud possessor of apark of 1400 acres, from which the views of mountain andocean are entrancing ; and in the bay wharves enable thelargest vessels to load and unload without lighterage, therailway cars running alongside the ships. Surely there isenough in the above to tell of an energetic, enterprising,
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TO THE GOLDEN LAND. 51 and self-reliant community, governed by municipal andhealth authorities with heads on their shoulders. But Nature too has showered her blessing on the city ofthe bay. The climate is superb. From an interestingwork, the able and intelligent author of which I have hadthe pleasure of meeting often, I gather the followingstriking and authenticated statistics:—During the ten years1876-1885, embracing 3653 days, there were 3533 onwhich the mercury never rose above 80 in the shade, andonly twenty-seven in which it went above 90. During thesame ten years there were 3560 days when the glass neverfell below 40, and only two when it fell to 32. San Diego,therefore, like a Laodicean, is neither hot nor cold, but willscarcely be condemned to the Laodiceans fate. It ispleasantly warm by day, pleasantly cool by night. Theaverage number of clear days for fifteen years is 184; offair days, 136 ; of cloudy, forty-five ; total, 365. Theaverage number of days on which rain fell w