It was a town of tents and one-story cabins, irregularly and picturesquely scattered over the hillside, with here and there a sawmill, where now stand some of the most prominent buildings of the modern city.

For years later there was a large mound of sand where now the stately Palace Hotel covers two and a half acres.

Where now stand substantial business blocks, a quarter of a century since there appeared only sandy beaches or mud-flats, with here and there a wooden pier reaching out into the bay.

Only five years before the town contained but seventy-nine buildings--thirty-one frame, twenty-six adobe, and the rest shanties.

It had grown largely since then, but even now was only a straggling village, with the air of recent settlement.
"You expected something more, Joe, didn't you ?" "Yes," admitted Joe.
"You must remember how new it is.