San José, then, is located fifty miles south of San Francisco, a few miles from the lower end of the southern arm of San Francisco Bay. It is, as nearly as possible, exactly on the halfway line as one paces the State from North to South. It has been since 1850 an incorpor ated city, but has far outgrown the limits originally set for it. The population within the legal boundaries of the city is only about if one includes those suburbs which are really a continuous and closely settled part of the city, the figures mount to about Nor does this count in the city'of Santa Clara, three miles away and connected by electric road. Effectively, therefore, it is the fourth city, in point of population, in the State, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Oakland alone ranking it. For beauty, for charm, for comfort, for solid and deep-rooted prosperity, for intellectual and moral stand ing, for all that makes life best worth living, its citizens are not pre pared to concede the palm to any other point whatever. Nor Should they, as will appear.
