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L872 182,090 pounds. 



L873 (i78,580 pounds. 



187-1 157,290 pounds. 



759,040 pounds. 



I-7-; 1,529,910 pounds. 



1877 . . l»731, i30 j »< .< » 1 1. 1 -. 



1878 1,700,930 pounds. 



L879 3,111,680 pounds. 



L880 6,707,650 pounds. 



L881 18,768,200 pounds. 



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l-v; 26,397,700 pounds. 



18S4 _'l.' £5,740 pounds. 



L885 (six months). 7,068,406 pounds. 



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The following are the statistics showing the shipments of dried fruits 

 and raisins, from 1874 to July l, 1885. 



In these lines of fruit production, the increase, so far as it is evidenced 

 by the amounl of each article which has been shipped t<> markel by rail, 

 during the years named, is indeed wonderful: 



DRIBS FRUITS. 



I -~~> 548,227 pounds. 



1876... 636,770 Dounds. 



l -77 730,610 pounds. 



1-7- 259,170 pounds. 



1879 1,761,750 pounds. 



1880 --- 412,480 pounds. 



L881 2,074,420 pounds. 



L882... -. 1,532,350 pounds. 



l><:5 3,097,950 pounds. 



l-s-i 2,103,350 pounds. 



1885 (six months) - 658,630 pounds. 



RAISINS. 



1874 -.- 220 pounds. 



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1876 -. --- 68,440 pounds. 



1877. 239,260 pounds. 



1878 .- --- 192,860 pounds. 



1879 -.- 942,770 pounds. 



1880 669,660 pounds. 



1881 . - 1,490,320 pounds. 



1882... 868,770 pounds. 



I883(a bad year).. 295,050 pounds. 



1884 .S.l.Vl.l'iW pounds. 



1885 (six months) 788,210 pounds. 



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I am informed from the most authentic sources, and especially from W. 

 T. Coleman & Co., one of the leading raisin shipping houses on this coast, 

 that the total raisin production for this State in 1884 was 175,000 20-pound 

 hoxes ; that for this year the yield will exceed 250,000, and that next year 

 the estimated crop is over 400,000. Taking into consideration the vines 

 already planted, within five vears California will produce 1,500,000 boxes 

 of raisins, worth from $3,000,000 to $4,000,000. 



There are at present imported into the United States annually about 

 5,000,000 boxes of raisins. When we recollect that the raisins of the world 

 are produced only in a small portion of Spain and in California, while the 

 whole civilized world consumes them, we can then well understand the 

 great value to California of this new industry. 



Doubtless the most remarkable increase of shipments of the products of 

 our farmers is the garden vegetables, such as cabbages, green peas, green 



