Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1886-06-23
A PROSPEROUS T0Wx.
tD D0velODan0 . OooAsRy's

Southern raihoad 10 a connection with the great overland system. consisting of the Atlantic and Pacific and Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe. marked new era for San Diego. A dull and lifeless town for several years previously, with this event. the heretofore dull and lis,less arteries of trade were quickened into act i've circulation and where, one year ago, a village of 5000 inhabitants stood now stands city with a population very close to 1000. Business is active and improvements both public and private are the order of the day. Streets are being graded, hills leveled and ravines filled and fine business blocks, magnih- cen, hotels and elesan, private residences arc being erected. Everything to-day is life and hustle. Corner lots which few months ago were valued by the hundreds now find ready sale upin the thousands. The San Diego river
 which has heretofore furnished an ample
 supply of water for all purposes of its
 inhabitants is TOW inadequate 70 meet
 their wants and company has been
 organized and is now engaged in laying
 a line of pipe into the mountains, fifty
 miles distant from where an inexhaustibie
 supply can be obtained.
 Men of wealth are investing their means in public and private enterprises.
 A syndicate of capitalists have secured a
 tract of land across the bay from :he city
 on beautiful peninsula which separates
 the bay from the ocean and intend to
 spend SI, 1000, 600 in improving 1t and
 building a first class hotel and establish ing it as . pleasant resort for tourists both during winter and summer. As the only place of the kind on the coast
 present is the hotel Del Monte, Monterey, the enterprise will no doubt prove immensely remunerative to its projectors
 The climate of San Diego IS renowned for its salubriousness and evenness of temperature wherever the name Cf Cali. fornla has been heard and now that the denizens of the east can be landed there in an elegant Pullman coach without discomforts and inconvenienCes of num- berless changes of cars, it is destined to become the Mecca of the health and pleasure seeker and sight seers. A gradual and easy incline extends from the bay for almost a mile to the east ward. from the highest point of which . magnificent view meets the eye limited only 5y its range of vision. The broad expanse of the Pacif: extends to the west as far as the eye can reach, till sky and water blend into one object. On this the "white- e-wingcd sails of com- merce' can be seen carrying the products of one nation to the consumer in another or from one part to another part of the same country. Vessels approaching the harbor can be seen ploughing their way through the water long before they enter the narrow roadstead which leads to the harbor, which is one of the best along ,hs coast. With the liberal policy or the part of the California Southern railroad and the enterprise of its citizens San Diego is destined 10 become one of the important cities of California. Its possibilities, in iac,, are almost unlimited as among hem may be counted line of steamers t v::ta the Orient where it would become TO small rival 10 San Francisco. While as yet its facilities as grea, commercial mart are limited l: is ! naturally located to become the western ,ase of supplies for the country tr;bu- ary to the Atlantic and Pacific and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail- oads.