Opis: Illustrated Album of Alameda County, California - Colquhoun Jos; Alex;

Excerpt from Illustrated Album of Alameda County, California: Its Early History and Progress Agriculture, Viticulture and Horticulture Educational, Manufacturing and Railroad Advantages Oakland and Environs Interior Townships Statistics, Etc;, Etc

The great territory west of the Rocky Mountains, extending to the shores of the Pacific Ocean, was comparatively unknown prior to the days of 1849. the four decades since that date this unknown territory has been peopled, five great States and two Territories founded. These States and Territories are as yet sparsely settled in comparison with the New England States and the countries of the Old World, but they are dotted over with cities, towns, and villages, and with farms and other industries, the wild children of the forests of fifty years ago having disappeared, most of them to the "happy hunting grounds" and the remainder on the government reservations. The area of this portion of our land is about seven hundred and fifty-six thousand nine hundred square miles. (This does not include Alaska, with its five hundred and seventy-eight thousand two hundred and four square miles.) On the western shore of this slope, occupying seven hundred miles out of the twelve hundred on the shore line by a width of from two hundred to two hundred and seventy miles, lies California, known as the Golden State. Its area is one hundred and fifty-eight thousand three hundred and sixty square miles. It lies between longitude 320 50' and 420 N., and 1140 and 1240 W. of latitude. By reason of its peculiar situation it has the most diversified climate of any State in the Union, and as a consequence its productions are more varied than those of any other. It is the second in area of the States. On the line between it and the State of Nevada in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, it is cold in the winter, with snow and ice, while at the foot of these mountains, and between them and the Pacific Ocean, lies a very temperate and almost semi-tropical extent of territory, upon which the thermometer seldom falls to 320 above zero. In the greater part of the State, the heliotrope, fuchsia, and other plants of that nature, as well as the palms and other ornamental shrubbery that are early carried to the greenhouses in the Hast, are allowed to grow out-of-doors the entire winter. It is of rare occurrence that any of them are injured by frost, and many persons born and raised
in the State have only once or twice seen snow within forty years, except in the mountain ranges.

Of this great State, Alameda (pronounced ala-may-dah, Spanish, meaning a driveway lined on each side by trees) County, the subject of this sketch, is a favorable part. Lying near the western coast, but yet far enough away to escape the sharp breezes and fogs prevalent along the coast, it has a most equable and even temperature, protected by remarkable natural phenomena. The succeeding pages are designed to set forth in a straightforward and truthful manner, without any boasting, the peculiar advantages of the county, and its cities and towns as places of residence, on account of healthful climatic conditions, its resources, growth, schools, railroads, etc. These are no overdrawn pictures, but simply statements of the fact.

Chapter I.

Early History and Progress.

Spanish - American Missions of Alta California - John C. Fremont, "The Pathfinder" - Mexican War, Raising of the Bear Flag - Cession of California, Finding of Gold and Admission into the Union, etc. - Natural Advantages - Health Statistics - Meteorology, Rainfall, etc. - Material Growth - County Government.

Alameda County, California, has a history dating back to 1797. During that year, under Governor Diego de Borica, of the then indefinitely known Spanish territory of Alta California, a settlement was made in the territory now embraced in this county by two friars, Ysidro Barcinallo and Augustin Merin, who, on the eighteenth day of June, founded the missi

Szczegóły: Illustrated Album of Alameda County, California - Colquhoun Jos; Alex;

Nazwa: Illustrated Album of Alameda County, California Its Early History and Progress Agriculture, Viticulture and Horticulture Educational, Manufacturing and Railroad Advantages Oakland and Environs Interior Townships Statistics, Etc;, Etc (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Colquhoun Jos; Alex;
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781331955979
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 146
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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