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The West American Scientist 



Oflficial organ of the San Diego Society of Natural History. A Popular Review awl 

 Record for the Pacific Slope. 



SAN DIEGO COUNTY. CAL, 



San Diego County is situate in the southern extremity of California — the Pacific 

 ocean on the west, and the grand Colorado river on the east. The Coast Range 

 divides the County into two grand divisions, Ihe eastern side has some good land, 

 but is noted chiefly for it3 valuable mines an I minerals. The western side slopes 

 toward the ocean, is interspersed with plains, valleys and table lands, runnii;,tr 

 streams, timber and producti\ e soils. It is well adapted to the diversified pursuit.-i 

 of agriculture, horticulture and grazing. It is this part of the County which is now 

 being rapidly improved. The area of the County is ecjual to that of Massachusetts, 

 Connecticut and Rhode Island combined — beint^ 14,969 square miles. Population or 

 the County in ISSO was SjlS ; in IS84 it had increased to 13,000, Assessed valua- 

 tion in ISSO was 53,525,253 ; in ISS4, SS, 140,000. 



One of the most important topographical fcxturci of the County is the Bay of San 

 Diego— a beautiful sheet of water more than 15 miles long, being the only land- 

 locked harbor south of the Bay of San Francisco witliin American territory. The 

 country embraced v/ithin the boundary lines of the County presents a constant 

 succession of mountains, valleys and table lands, giving a wide range of adaptation 

 to industrial pursuits and the cdimatic condition:? :juited to almost any possiM'^ -^eeJ 

 or preference. 



.'wo transcontinental railways traverse the County— the Atlantic & Pacific and 

 lliL- Southern Pacific. Along the lines of these loads. and in other parts of the in. 

 t.Mor of the County, are many thrifty towns and settlements, which cannot here be 

 l-.'-cnbcd or mentioned, but just such localities as many would like for health, profit 

 uid a pl(^sant home, 



I iiB u-hoie range of farm and garden productions of every kind, raised anywherc 

 in the United States, are successfully and profitably grown here, as well as a long 

 li>t of tropical and semi-tropical fruits— such as figs, lemons, limes, oranges- 

 olives bananas, and many others — all unsurpassed in either size, quantity or quality. 



Pamphlets and other dpscri^jiuve matter furnished free. Address, 



Immigration Association, San Diego, Cal. 



