The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-28

! house, and numerous handsome DrlcR
blocks. A large shipping business Is done,
especially in imports of coal and lumber.
There are coal bunkers with capacity OF
$1,000 tons. Across the bay from San
| Diego on a peninsula. is the famous C0ro-
nado Hotel This hotel, with accommcda-
tons for 1000 guests. with ~ acres OF
grounds beautifully adorned with gardens,
lawns, baths, terraces, ocean beach, drives,
electric lights, water-works. and an en-
Tire town tributary to it, constitutes one of
the most delightful seaside resorts in the
world.
Inc county seat of Fresno County is
Fresno City. the population of which in
1890 was 10.890 1t is the manufacturing,
/ shlpping and commercial center of the
| county.
! Inc city has six banks, two daily and
seVerai weekly newspapers three street.
car lines. paved streets, excellent water
gas, electric light and telephone systems
hre department, elegant public school and
other buildings. churches, first class no.
! tells. elegant opera-house ard all the i'm
provenents of a modern city. The High
School building cost over $50. 600. It is the
geographical center of 1000, OOO acres of
| arabic land. The population has increased
$50 per cent in ten years. Over 1900 car
loads OF freight were shipped from this civ
in 1891. Ii has five railroads oentering
there. giving communication with San
Francisco north, Los Angeles south, east
to the timber and mining sections of the
county. west to the Coast Range and
southeast skirtiDg the foothills to Sanger
and Porterville. The Monterey and Fres-
no line will soon be started. The city has
Board of Trade and various other ublic
organic tions, enthusiastic in advancing
the industrial interests of their great
county. Its citizens are enterpriSing,
pushing. business men.
San Bernardino. the county seat of the
county bearing that name. is the oldest
town in the county. Its population is
about $500. 1t has three news papers, three
banks, two motor roads, eight miles of
street railway. an elegant courthouse in
course of construction. first-class hotels,
and business blocks. A State insane asy-
lum is located here. On the mountains
north of San Bernardino City are a bout go
square miles of heavy forests Of magnif-
cent sugar and yellow pine, fir and spruce.
Several large mills are located there. and
the annual output is about 7,4000 900 feet of
lumber.
Eureka, the county seat of Humboldt, is
situated on Hum bOldt Bay. 216 miles from
San Francisco. 1t has a population of
1884 according TO the census of 1890, but
since then the city limits have been ex-
! tended and a careful estimate gives the
present population as ZOO. 1t has three
| banks, four newspapers, nine churches,
splendid school buildings, opera-house,
six sawmills and numerous factories and
shipya rds. 1t has a good sewer system,
water, gas and electric light plants. two
miles of streetcar line and fine public and
busine SIS blocks. Its courthouse grounds,
buildings and furniture are valued at
about S225. 600, and its infirmary at
$4,000.
Eur eka is the entrepot and shipping
point for the county, and handles an i'm
mense amount of lumber, fish, dairy prod
ucts. vegetables, fruit and supplies yearly.
Two lines of steamers give semi-weekly
connection with San Francisco, and over
125 vessels are engaged in trade on Hum
boldt Bay, carrying over 200 cargoes year.
The appropriation by Congress of $780,
GOO for the completion of the i'm provements
on Humboldt Bay has awakened intense
interest in the county, and all industries
ave felt the beneficial stimulus toward
further development of the great resources
of this section.
Pasadena, known as ''the crown of the
valley" is a beautiful residence town,
twenty minutes ride by two lines of rail-
road from Los Angeles 1t has grown
within twenty years from a sheep pasture
to q world-renowned city of beautiful
no mes, with population of some 7OOO
1t has paved streets. fine business blocks,
churches, schools. library and banks.
Vallejo. the chief city of Solano County,
is located on the bay of the same name, is
connected by water and rail with San
Franc cisco and has a population of about
6000. The city has banks, daily news
! papers, fine schools and churches, good
sewerage system, water. gas, and electric
/ light works. and all the appliances of a
modern city. The new water system, lust
! inaugurated 20 bring water a distance of
/ fourteen miles. will add much to the COM
fort and growth of the city. It's manu-
featuring interests are large. 1t has one
of the largest fiourmillS of the State. ex-
tensive brick and terra Gotta works, and
leather manufactures. Its water front of
nine miles admits the largest sea-gong
vessels.
Santa Cruz. the county seat of Santa
Cruz County. with population of 6OO0 is
situated on the ocean on the northerly side
Of Monterey Bay. 1t is a thriving, pros
porous town. having fine county and bust
ness buildings, schools and churches, four
banks, two daily newspapers two weekly
/ newspapers, electric street railway, gas
and water works, railroad connection
with San Francisco by two railroad
/ lines and by steamer. and elegant
/ hotels. 1t has a perfect sewer system.
! fine paved or asphalt streets, and
many manufacturing Industries. The San
/ Lorenzo River will soon be made to fur
nish power for electric lights. motors and
tor other purposes Many new buildings
/ have been completed during the past year,
| and the city is in a very prosperous con-
! dition.
! Santa Barbara, the cGcniy seat of the
county of that name, with population of
! 1854, according to the census OF 1890. is a
/ beautifully located city on the island-pro-
| tected channel of the Pacific Ocean which
/ lies south of the coast Its hurbor ia a