Identifier: overrangetogolde00wood (find matches)
Title: Over the range to the Golden Gate : a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the great North-west
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Wood, Stanley
Subjects: West (U.S.) -- Guidebooks Pacific States -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Chicago : R.R. Donnelley & Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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YOUNG AMERICAS FRIEND. operation, and half a dozen factories of various kinds; it has ship-ways with acapacity for dry-docking the largest coast steamers on an hours notice; it hascomplete water, gas and sewer systems, and, as a whole, has been convertedinto a veritable garden, the streets being uniformly lined with tropical trees, shrubsand flowers. The surf-bathing of Coronado Beach is the best on the entire coast,and probably the finest in the world. The beach slopes gently, and the sand ishard and free from stones and ragged shells, and there is no undertow. Thetemperature of the air and of the sea is about equal both in winter and summer;consequently there are extraordinary inducements for surf-bathing all the yearround. Roseville and !New Koseville are located not far from the entranceto the harbor. A fine wharf has been built there, regular ferries established, andthe works of the San Diego Nail Factory are now being erected. They will have
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208 THE CLIMATE. Summer the YearRound. The Home of Healthand Pleasure. TO THE GOLDEN GATE. 20!) a capacity of 500 kegs of nails a day, and will be one of the important industries ofthe San Diego region. The Sweetwater Dam. This dam is one of the engineering wondersof this region, and an excursion to it is a most enjoyable experience. It is situ-ated about six miles back of National City, and is reached by the National City &Otay Railroad. The dam, together with sixty-five miles of wrought iron pipe laidfrom the reservoir to National City, and to various points in that section forirrigation purposes, cost a total of $Soo,ooo. The dimensions of the dam are asfollows : 46 feet in thickness at the base, 12 feet in thickness at the top, 75 feetin length at the base, 396 feet in length at the top. The reservoir is three mileslong, three fourths of a mile wide, and covers 700 acres. When full it will holdsix billion gallons of water, a quantity sufficient to irrigate 30,000 acres of land

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