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There liiivc been a great many fruit trees planted the present 3'car, 

 and orchards that have age, have borne well. There are nurseries in the 

 county, affording trees at a reasonable rate. There were about seven 

 thousand bushels of apples raised the present year. But few vines have 

 been planted, but sufficient to know that they can be cultivated with 

 success. One man made one hundred and twenty gallons of wine, and 

 Lad grapes of a superior qualit}'. 



As a stock raising county, there are few better. The early spring and 

 summer are not hot enougli to burn up the grass, while there is not snow 

 enough in winter to prevent stock from doing well, without feed. Siski- 

 you iias probably lost as few cattle by hard winters as any county in the 

 State. While cattle were starving from the effects of the drought, last 

 summer, and perishing in the winter storms in man}' other counties, 

 they were driven from here to the San Francisco market for beef Stock 

 demands a good price, and pays better than it has for 3-ears. We have 

 excellent gnstmills, enough to grind all the grain raised! in the county; 

 also sawmills, to furnish lumber at reasonable prices. Butter and cheese 

 demand a good price, and farmers may be considered as doing well. 



Mining interests, while holding their own with any part of the State, 

 are far from what they were formerly. The improved hydraulic ma- 

 chinery for working the placer diggings, which enables the miners to 

 work such a large space of ground in a season, has had the effect to 

 rapidly deplete the mines. The yield of dust is about one hundred thou- 

 sand dollars per month, in the county. The diggings are generally 

 shallow, and easily worked. The Klamath and Scott Rivers have in 

 their beds an inexhaustible amount of wealth, but the rapid current and 

 sudden floods in the streams renders the river mining a dangerous and 

 uncertain business. Quartz mining in Siskiyou, taken altogether, may 

 be regarded as a failure. Numerous " leads " have been '• struck," and 

 "feet" innumerable have been "sold;" a few companies have succeeded 

 in doing a good business in some instances, for a time, but at present all, 

 or nearlj' all, have suspended operations. That there is plent}' of good 

 quartz in this county, is a fact beyond controversy, but at the present 

 price of labor, it is difficult to worlc it to advantage. 



Regretting that my report is so limited, 



I remain, as ever, yours truly. 



By E. B. Edson, Deputy. 



D. C. STEVENS, 



County Assessor. 



SAN DIEGO COUNTY. 



John L. McIntier Count}- Assessor. 



.Assessor's Office, ] 



San Diego County, October 6th, 1865 

 I. N. IIoAG, Esq., 



Secretary State Agricultural Society, Sacramento: 



Sir: — Herewith I submit my report as Assessor of San Diego County. 

 The land of this county, with few exceptions, is generally adapted to 



