VALLEJO

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VALLEJO , a city of Solano county, California, U.S.A., on the San Pablo Bay, at the mouth of the Napa river, about 24 M. N.E. of San Francisco. Pop. (1890) 6343; (1900) 7965 (2033 foreign-born); (1910) 11,340. It is served by a branch of the Southern Pacific railway, by steamboats to San Francisco, and by an interurban electric line. The city is situated at the mouth of the

great

GREAT

interior valley of the state, and has a good harbour, the channel of which, since the removal of a shoal by the Federal government in 1902-1906, has a maximum depth at low tide of 24 ft. Directly opposite the city, half a mile distant and connected by ferry, is Mare Island, the headquarters of the Pacific Naval

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of the United States, with a large United States Navy Yard, a naval arsenal, two stone dry docks (one 750 ft. long) and a lighthouse. The Navy Yard was established in 1854, and its first commandant was D. G. Farragut. In the city are a

Carnegie

CARNEGIE
CARNEGIE, ANDREW (1837– )

library, St Vincent's

Academy

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ACADEMY, ROYAL

and a Good Templars'

Home

(1869) for orphans. Vallejo is the outlet of the beautiful Napa Valley, one of the finest fruit-growing regions of the state, and, besides fruit, ships large quantities of wheat. Among its manufactures are flour, leather, dairy products and lumber. The municipality owns and operates its waterworks, the water-

supply

SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

being obtained from the mountains 25 M. distant. The city takes its name from General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, a prominent Mexican leader in the years immediately preceding the annexation of California to the United States. It was a dull and out-of-the-way

settlement

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SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

in 1851, when, through General Vallejo's efforts, it became the state

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

. The state legislature met here in 1851, 1852 and 1853. In 1871 Vallejo ranked third in population among the cities of the state, and its position and the excellence of its harbour made it a rival of Oakland in the struggle (1869-72) for the terminus of the Central Pacific railway; but Vallejo was unsuccessful, and after 1872 began to decline in relative importance.
VALL$S, JULES (1832-1885), French journalist and author, was born at Puys, France, on the loth of June 1832. Coming to Paris, he joined the staff of the Figaro, and became a constant contributor to the other leading journals. In 1866 he republished much of his newspaper

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in Refractaires, the volume forming a romance of the seamy side of Paris life. He was in Paris during the siege of 1870, and after the capitulation was a member of the Commune and founded Le Cri du Peuple. Hetook a conspicuous part in the fighting in the Paris streets, but finally made his escape to London, whence he contributed anonymously to the French press. In 1878 he beganin the Siecle the serial publication of his principal

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, Jacques Vingtras, a long autobiographical romance. He died in Paris on the 14th of February 1885.

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