. A description of the western resorts for health and pleasure reached via Union Pacific system, "the overland route." . CALIFORNIAPOINTS. LIFORNIA is a word of Spanish origin and meanshot furnace. The State is 770 miles long; its ex-. treme breadth is 330 miles and its least breadth is 150miles; it has an area of 160,000 square miles, or 100,-000,000 acres of territory. In 1542, Juan Rodriguez Ca-brillo, a Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain,landed on the coast of California, and was probably thefirst white man to visit the Golden State. When the peninsula, now knownas Southern Calif
. A description of the western resorts for health and pleasure reached via Union Pacific system, "the overland route." . CALIFORNIAPOINTS. LIFORNIA is a word of Spanish origin and meanshot furnace. The State is 770 miles long; its ex-. treme breadth is 330 miles and its least breadth is 150miles; it has an area of 160,000 square miles, or 100,-000,000 acres of territory. In 1542, Juan Rodriguez Ca-brillo, a Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain,landed on the coast of California, and was probably thefirst white man to visit the Golden State. When the peninsula, now knownas Southern California, was discovered in 1534, it was named California, and forupward of 200 years that was the California known to Europeans, although thename was also applied to the coast further north. The Franciscan friars, underJunipero Serra settled at San Diego in 1769. In 1821, California became aportion of independent Mexico, and afterward a territory under the MexicanRepublican Government. On July 7, 1846, the American navy seized Mon-terey, the capital of Upper California, and American authority dates from thatday. Gold
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