334 • SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY 



From the above statistics the following important conclusions may 

 be drawn: 



First — That the City of Stockton is rapidly advancing in import- 

 ance, its population having increased about three hundred per cent, 

 since 1860, and about fifty per cent, since 1870; and its taxable property 

 having increased about one hundred and seventy per cent, since 1860, 

 and about seventy-five per cent, since 1870. 



Second — That the population, taxable property, and productions 

 of the San Joaquin Valley have all nearly doubled every ten years 

 since 1860. 



Third — That from thirty-five to forty per cent, of the raw products 

 of the San Joaquin Valley are transported to the seaboard via the 

 Citj'' of Stockton and the San Joaquin River. 



Fourth- — That breadstuff" shipment from Stockton via San Joaquin 

 River are equal to twenty-six and one-half per cent of the breadstuff 

 exports by sea from San Francisco. 



Fifth — That breadstuflT exports by sea, to foreign ports, from Oregon 

 and Washington Territory are only equal to forty-one per cent, of the. 

 breadstuff" shipm ent, via San Joaquin River, from Stockton. 



