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Figs, 7,233,070 pounds, valued at - - $505,876 00 



Oranges, to the value of - 2,<;<js,M9 no 



Lemons, to the value of - - - - 1,877,839 00 



Primes (<lrir.li, 1)4,995,545 pounds, valued at 2,02<!,595 no 



Raisins, 10,387,946 pounds, valued at -- - - - 2,885,123 0<> 



['reserved fruits, to the value of --- 838,5;>7 oo 



Other fruits, to the value of - --- l,450,M2 On 



Olive oil, 634,354 gallons -- -- 



Almonds, 5,822,733 pounds, valued at - (547,077 00 



Other nuts, to the value of - 563,727 00 



Wines, to the value of <;,9lu,n41 no 



Brandy, to the value of.... -- 2,000,000 00 



Chicory and licorice, etc., to the value of 3,800,000 00 



Sugar, 2,600,000,000 pounds -- - -- 



Molasses, 100,000,000 gallons 



Flax, hemp, jute, etc., 152,560 tons 



Manufactured articles of flax, hemp, and jute, to the value of 20,000,000 00 



All these articles can be produced in California, most of them better 

 than in any other part of the United States, and many of them no other 

 part of our country can produce. These are the figures of to-day. After a 

 few decades our population will be double and quadruple its present num- 

 bers, and with the increase of wealth, and the consequently increased 

 capacity for the consumption of luxuries, the demand for these articles, 

 which we alone can produce, will be many times what it now is. It will 

 be seen by these figures, that the market for our productions is unlimited, 

 and with whatever speed we may advance in producing them, we can not 

 overtake the demands of the consumption of the country, for a century to 

 come. 



The Development Made. 



The development of the resources of the State forms one of the most 

 interesting and instructive chapters of the history of the marvelous prog- 

 ress made by the United States in the present century. When the Ameri- 

 can occupation of this State took place, forty years ago, it was one vast 

 grazing ground. The tillage of the soil was little known. The reverend 

 Fathers had some gardens in which they grew vegetables, and there were 

 a few small orchards and vineyards in the southern and middle portions 

 of the State around the old Missions. When the rush of the gold-seekers 

 came, in eighteen hundred and forty-nine and eighteen hundred and fifty, 

 breadstuff's had to be hrfported to the coast for their support, and it was 

 years before the State produced the food to feed its own population. The 

 first tillage was along the streams, on the alluvial soils, and it was then 

 believed that those were the only lands which would yield an adequate 

 return for labor. The cereals were the first food plants which were pro- 

 duced on the lands back from the streams, and the experiment of their 

 cultivation on the higher lands of the valleys were made with doubts and 

 misgivings as to success. The introduction and practice of summer fal- 

 lowing dissolved these doubts, and gave such an impetus to grain growing 

 as, within twenty years, placed California in the front rank of wheat and 

 barley-growing States. Vegetable growing followed grain growing to the 

 higher valley lands, and on to the foothills, and from being an importer 

 of food products California became a large exporter. 



Fruit growing on an extended scale dates back hardly more than a 

 decade. Enough had been done in tree and vine cultivation to prove that 

 this is the natural home of all kinds of tree fruits and grapes, but the 

 efforts were only in the direction of local supply. The varieties of fruits 

 and grapes were of the most common kinds, and the wine manufactured 

 met with little favor either at home or abroad. The past ten years has 



