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Book Title: A Memorial And Biographical History Of The Counties Of Santa Barbara, Ventura, And San Luis Obispo

ELECTRIC LIGHT.

  Since November 1, 1887, Santa Barbara has been municipally lighted by the
electric system. There are two towers 150 feet high, each having four
2,000-candle power lamps, and twenty-eight masts sixty and eighty feet high,
each with one 2,000-candle-power lamp. State street is thus lighted throughout
its entire length, and the rest of the lamps are distributed about the city.
This system costs the city about $500 monthly. Besides the city lights, there
are in use over sixty arc lights of l,200 candle-power, and a large number of
incandescent lights of various powers, used for the lighting of mercantile
houses, hotels, and other private establishments.



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A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY 
OF THE COUNTIES OF
Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura, California

Illustrated

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Prospective Future; with Profuse illustrations of its Beautiful Scenery,
Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most Eminent Men, and
Biographical Mention of  many of its Pioneers and also of Prominent Citizens of
to-day,

BY MRS. YDA ADDIS STORKE.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors -will
never achieve anything worthy to he remembered with pride by remote
descendants."—Macaulay.

THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1891.

Barlow-Sinclair Printing Co., Chicago.


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