California libro d'oro : primo nocciolo, la sua scoperta e scopritori, e alcuni dei risultati che procedono da esso . deand commercio, è particolarmente il patrimonio della California dove è stato fatto. OTEL DEL CORONADO E CORONADO[HI BEACH. Tra i fatti accanto a impossibileof credenza è quello in relazione alla vivace e bellissima Coronado, con i suoi tremila abitanti, e miglioramenti metropolitani. Nel 1885 era un'isola nell'oceano, ma in realtà era un braccio di terra, appena sopra il livello del mare, che si estende tra la baia di SanDiego e l'oceano, il punto occidentale di reachingwith

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California gold book : first nugget, its discovery and discoverers, and some of the results proceeding therefrom . deand commerce, is especially the heritage of Californiawhere it has been made. OTEL DEL CORONADO AND CORONADO[Hi_ BEACH. Among the facts next to impossibleof belief is that one in regard to the lively and beautifultown of Coronado, with its three thousand inhabitants, and metropolitan improvements. In 1885 it was appar-ently an island in the ocean, but in fact was an arm ofland, just above sea level, extending down between SanDiego bay and the ocean, the western point reachingwithin half a mile or so of the promontory upon whichis situated the government light at Point Loma, andwhich is the highest marine light in the world. It wasthen utterly without human habitation, even to afishermans hut, and was covered with unsightly shrub-bery. It vpas about this time that the completion ofthe Santa Fe railroad to San Diego inspired five enter-prising citizens with a belief that this barren spotmight be utilized. E. S. Babcock, Joseph Collett, Jacob Gruendike, Heber Ingle and H. L. Story formed. CALIFORNIA GOLD BOOK. 375 a corporation, and obtained title to the North andSouth islands as th§y were called. These were allmen of expanded ideas, and with entire confidence inthe practical views of E. S. Babcock, who had beenmade president of the combination. In 1886 the firstground was broken, and the grand system of improve-ment commenced. What these included, the more than350, 000 visitors, composed of the best citizens of everyland under the shining sun, can well understand. Thefirst sale of lots took place in November, 1886. Groundwas broken for the Hotel del Coronado in February, 1887, and in February, 1888, it was opened for tourists, with a railroad running from the hotel over this narrowarm, more than six miles easterly to the mainland, andthence to San Diego, the whole distance being aboutfifteen miles. A motor road was constructed to theferry, about a mile and

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