Excerpt from Alameda County, Its Industries and Environs The city of Oakland, which occupies a most favourable position, almost opposite the entrance to the Bay of San Francisco, is the county seat, and has a population of one hundred thousand. Other cities of this county of considerable importance are Berkeley, with a population of twenty-one thousand, and Alameda, with a population of twenty thousand. These cities, together with the towns of San Leandro, Haywards, Livermore and Pleasanton, will be separately described in the following pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.