1874 San Diego City Directory
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SAN DIEGO,
ITS CLIMATE, RESOURCES, AND COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE.
The public is often misled with regard to a new country, by accounts of the tourist, whose vision was dazzled by itr beauties, or clouded by prevailing shadows, during a visit of only a few inauspicious days.
The picture drawn is seldom accurate, but is usually brightened and warmed by the glow of generous gratitude to its people, or is clouded and made cold and barren by unfavorable influences affecting the author's mind. Other false pictures are sometimes drawn by jealous and adversely interested parties, many of whom have never seen, and are profoundly ignorant of, the object of their jealousy.
These descriptions are read and heard with more or less faith in the integrity of their authors, but always with enough to enable them, in some degree, to impress the mind.
San Diego has not escaped detraction from these sources, but has been - is still - the subject of persistent misrepresentation - misrepresentation often so flagrant as to be suggestive of adverse interest.
To counteract these misrepresentations, the Chamber of Commerce of the city of San Diego publish this little pamphlet, by which they propose to represent to the public the real truth relative to the condition, and prospects, and the peculiar characteristics of their flourishing young city and the adjacent country, as fully as is practicable in a paper such as this. They are confident that investigation and the lapse of time will demonstrate that the representation is not overdrawn.
