. Illustrated album of Alameda County, California; its early history and progress--agriculture, viticulture and horticulture--educational, manufacturing and railroad advantages--Oakland and environs--interior townships--statistics, etc., etc . RESIDENeE OF CHARLES NELSO PLATE SEMINARY AVE., EAST OAKLAND ILLUSTRATED ALBUM OF ALAMEDA COUNTY. 33 the overland roads, which were all leased some yearsago and are still controlled by the Southern PacificCompany of Kentucky. About thirteen years ago an opposition company,known as the South Pacific Coast Railroad Company,built and equipped a narrow
. Illustrated album of Alameda County, California; its early history and progress--agriculture, viticulture and horticulture--educational, manufacturing and railroad advantages--Oakland and environs--interior townships--statistics, etc., etc . RESIDENeE OF CHARLES NELSO PLATE SEMINARY AVE., EAST OAKLAND ILLUSTRATED ALBUM OF ALAMEDA COUNTY. 33 the overland roads, which were all leased some yearsago and are still controlled by the Southern PacificCompany of Kentucky. About thirteen years ago an opposition company,known as the South Pacific Coast Railroad Company,built and equipped a narrow-gauge line starting froma pier built out into the bay from Alameda Point,along the south training wall of the Oakland estuary,and paralleling the broad-gauge line down throughAlameda County and the Santa Clara Valley to SanJose, Santa Cruz, and Monterey. This line runs be-tween the broad gauge and the bay. In 1887 it waspurchased by the Southern Pacific Company for $e,,-500,000, and it is now operated by it. The California and Nevada Narrow Gauge RailroadCompany built a line a few years ago from Emeryville,via Berkeley and San Pablo, to Walnut Grove, in ContraCosta County, which runs during the summer line is being extended, and it is understood that itwill be p
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