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TEANSACTIONS OF THE 



By examining the table carefully, we are able to prepare the following 

 statement, giving by counties the percentages of loss and gain in the pop- 

 ulation of the State during the past six years: 



GAIN, PER CENT. 



San Bernardino -128 



Los Angeles 116 



San Diego 102 



Fresno -- - 89 



Santa Barbara 73 



Tulare - 66 



San Luis Obispo 63 



Ventura 60 



Monterey 50 



Modoc.. 45 



Santa Cruz 44 



Humboldt i 41 



San Benito 39 



Alameda - 38 



San Francisco 36 



Sonoma 36 



Shasta - 32 



Santa Clara... 29 



Mendocino - -.28 



Lassen - 27 



Tehama 25 



Stanislaus - 20 



San Mateo 19 



Yolo -. - -19 



Solano 18 



Lake - .18 



Contra Costa ..16 



Napa 16 



Merced -- 15 



Amador - 11 



Calaveras - 11 



Sutter 11 



San Joaquin 9 



Colusa .-- - 9 



Sacramento - - 3 



LOSS, PER CENT. 



*Kern 1 



t Siskiyou 2 



§Butte 3 



+ Mariposa 3 



t Nevada 3 



f Del Norte 9 



t Placer 9 



t El Dorado .10 



X Marin 11 



t Tuolumne 12 



t Alpine 14 



§Yuba 17 



tlnvo 22 



t Plumas 27 



t Sierra 29 



t Trinity 38 



t Mono 79 



* Water fight. 



f Mining counties. 



X Large dairying interests. 



\ Slickens controversy. 



We find that in thirty-five counties of the State there has been a gain 

 in population during the past six years, and in seventeen counties there 

 has been a loss of population. The reader will naturally look for the causes 

 that produce these results. 



By looking at the head of the list of counties in which there has been a 

 gain we find that San Bernardino County stands at the head, with Los 

 Angeles and San Diego following as a good second and third. We find 

 that Southern California, with Fresno and Tulare, two thoroughly irrigated 

 counties in the San Joaquin Valley, and San Luis Obispo on the coast, 

 which has been largely settled up of late, owing to the lapse of the railroad 

 lands in that county, constitute the eight most prosperous counties of the 

 State, averaging a gain of eighty-seven per cent since the census of 1880. 

 Next to these come, as a rule, the coast counties. 



Looking over the list of counties where there has been a loss of popula- 

 tion we find that there are thirteen mining counties that show an average 

 loss of twenty per cent. Then we have two counties injured by slickens — 

 Yuba and Butte — which show an average loss of ten per cent. Then there 

 is one county almost entirely devoted to large dairies (Marin) which shows 

 a loss of eleven per cent, and lastly Kern County, where Miller & Lux have 

 commenced over one hundred suits against the farmers who attempted to 

 divert the waters of Kern River for irrigation purposes. This county has 

 stood still with a nominal loss of one per cent. 



