1874 San Diego City Directory
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CITY OF SAN DIEGO.
for the home manufacture of woolen goods. Our wool is sent to the eastern markets, and woolen goods brought back in return, at the cost of shipping both ways, while we have the needed facilities for manufacturing in our own county. Our last year's export of wool was six hundred thousand pounds, which in the years to come will be greatly increased, the manufacture of which in our own county invites eastern capitalists hither.
The cost of running machinery is but little greater than at the East, while labor can be as cheaply obtained, and wool made cheaper.
The soil is congenial to the sugar beet, and with proper culture produces abundant crops, which might be converted into sugar, thus giving us another staple commodity for export.
Salt is somewhat extensively manufactured from the waters of the bay, and the business may be indefinitely extended.
Hides, which the county supplies in large quantities, may be profitably tanned here, and excellent leather, in lieu of raw hides, shipped to other markets.
In short, there seems no limit to our natural resources. New enterprises are constantly suggested, and whoever improves the golden opportunities here offered does himself and the public an immense benefit.
HEALTH RESORT.
As a national sanitarium, San Diego is unsurpassed. Hundreds of invalids have been restored to health, or greatly benefitted, by our health-giving climate.
The most casual observer will perceive on the trip from San Francisco to San Diego by water, after passing Point Conception, a most agreeable change from cold and fog to a soft and balmy atmosphere. The change becomes more apparent as we pass down the coast, until we reach San Diego, where the perfection of climatic conditions is attained.
The remarkable equability of the temperature may be perceived by a reference to the tables prepared for publication by the observer of the U. S. Signal Service at San Diego. These tables may be found in the Appendix, to which the
