San Jose, California, USA
1895 - San Jose

San José, a city of California, the county seat of Santa Clara co., is situated in the beautiful and fertile valley of Santa Clara, on the Guadalupe River, about 8 miles from its mouth, in San Francisco Bay, and 48 miles S.E. of the city of San Francisco, with which and with Oakland it is connected by several branches of the Southern Pacific Rail way Company's lines. San José has a dry and delightful climate, and is noted for its beautiful gardens and excel lent fruits. Its streets are wide, crossing each other at right angles, are traversed by electric railways, and lighted by gas and electric lights. The locality is supplied with water by pure mountain streams and by numerous artesian wells. San José has a city hall, numerous churches, a public library, a state normal school, 2 high schools, the Catholic College of Notre Dame (for girls), a fine court house erected at a cost of about $200,000, a Hall of Records and a post-office, each costing about $200,000, a national bank, a commercial and savings-bank with a capital of $1,000,000, 5 other banks, a silk-factory, a woollen-mill, and several flouring-mills, lumber-mills, tanneries, machine-shops, iron-foundries, &c. Three daily and 3 weekly newspapers are published here. Pop. in 1880, 12,567; in 1890, 18,060.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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