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| | Pourade: The Glory Years (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | The California Southern Railroad was chartered on October 12, 1880, to construct a railroad from National City to San Bernardino, with Benjamin Kimball of Boston as president, M.A. Luce of San Diego as vice president, Thomas Nickerson as treasurer, and Frank Kimball as one of the directors. |
 | | Today the people of San Diego are celebrating the event in a manner that proclaims the awakening of the city to new life, from which, as long as the sun shines, under no matter what rulers she will never again slumber until ages have filled her lap with the wealth of nations. |
 | | Somehow, for all the bands and speeches, the great hour when San Diego at long last was connected by rail with the East seemed to be an anticlimax to the thirty years of struggle running back to 1852, before many of those who were present at the train's arrival had ever heard of the town. |
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