The New Student's Reference Work/San Diego, Cal.

San Diego (dḗ-ā'gṓ), Cal., county-seat of San Diego County, the main port of southern California, stands on the beautiful bay of the same name, 125 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The bay, ten miles long, forms a good and very busy harbor. The climate is remarkably genial, and thousands of tourists come here and to Coronado Beach, a suburb across the bay, whose hotel cost $1,200,000. San Diego is the oldest city in California, and Father Junipero's Jesuit mission of 1768 is still preserved and used. A few miles back, at the mouth of a canon, stands the famous Sweetwater dam, one of the largest in the world, with a curving wall of masonry 90 feet high and 46 feet through at the base. A large trade in wool, nuts, fruit, honey and other products of the country is carried on. San Diego has carriage and wagon works, flour and planing mills and machine-shops. It has a splendid system of public and parochial schools and other educational institutions, and is served by four railroads. A monument to Richard A. Proctor (q. v.) was set up near San Diego in 1891. Population 39,578.