Legal Interest rate, 10; by contract, any rate.
| CALIFORNIA. | Kal-e-for´ne-ah. "The Golden State." |
Name of Spanish origin, signifying "Hot Furnace."
First settlement by Spaniards at San Diego, 1768; admitted 1850.
Area, 158,360 square miles, the second largest State; extreme length, 770 miles; extreme breadth, 330 miles; least breadth, 150 miles; coastline, over 700 miles; San Francisco Bay, best harbor on western coast. Number counties, 52.
Temperature at San Francisco: winter, 50° to 55°; summer, 58° to 69°. Rainfall, Sacramento, 20 inches.