Oakland
a city and county-seat of Alameda co., Cal.; on San Francisco Bay, and on the Southern Pacific, Western Pacific, and other railroads; 7 miles E. of San Francisco. The city is laid out on a fine slope of ground, overlooking the bay. It received its name from a grove of beautiful evergreen oaks in which it was first settled. Its favorable location has made it the residence of many wealthy families, whose business interests are in San Francisco. It contains a high school, a convent, a private normal school, several academies, a business college, library, St. Mary's College, and other educational institutions, a handsome theater, municipal buildings, Auditorium, parks, hospitals, schools, electric street railroads, and National, State and savings banks. It is the trade center of a large and fertile fruit-grow- OAKLEY OATH ing region. The city has industries in (U. S.) to 40 lbs. (Europe); the meal is flour, pottery, brass goods, leather, canning and fruit-packing, shipbuilding, metallurgical works, cordage and jute, and smelting. The assessed valuation exceeds $250,000,000. Pop. (1910) 150,- 174; (1920) 216,361.