1874 San Diego City Directory
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
W. W. Pierce ... Rec. Secretary.
J. R. Scranton ... Perm. Secretary.
Joseph Tasher ... Treas.Total number of members, May 1, 1874, 90.
SAN DIEGO MONUMENT LODGE, No. 351, INDEPENDENT
ORDER OF GOOD TEMPLERS. Organized April 2, 1869:James McG. Frazer ... W. C. T.
Mrs. J. A. Shephard ... W. V.
Geo. Humphry ... Secretary.Number of members, 50.
TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION.
San Diego is connected with other parts of the United States by the lines of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Length of line from San Diego to San Francisco, six hundred and fifty miles, including the branch line to San Bernardino.
Office receipts are equal to a population of a city of twenty thousand in the Eastern States.
This office furnishes the Coast and eastern cities with daily reports of steamship movements, exports aud-imports; with other valuable statistics and information, amounting to thirty-six thousand words in the year 1873.
Number of messages sent and received during same year, nine thousand.
Number of words received for the daily press of the city one hundred and eighty thousand.
The meterological reports from the Signal Service of the War Department are sent by this line thrice daily to Washingion and other principal cities.
This office is also the terminus of the Arizona Military Telegraph line constructed by the Army, running through Fort Yuma, Maricopa Wells, Phoenix and Wickenburg, to Prescott, and from Maricopa Wells, via Florence, to Tucson. The office is located corner of D and 5th streets. W. E. Smith is Manager.
OFFICERS OF SAN DIEGO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
President ... Jas. S. Gordon.
Vice President ... A. H. Gilbert.
