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cinal properties favorable to tlic relief of many of the various diseases 

 to which the hnman body is subject. 

 All of which is respectfully submitted. 



Your obedient servant, 



D. M. HA R WOOD, 

 ' Assessor Santa Clara County. 



SANTA CEUZ COUNTY. 



N. Taylor County Assessor. 



Assessor's Office, Santa Cruz. 



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I. N. IIoACx, Esq., ■ 



Secretary State Board of Agriculture : 



Dear Sir : — 1 herewith send you the statistics of this county, as I 

 have been able to collect them while assessing. The value of an exhibit 

 of the productions of the country seems to be very little thought of, or 

 at least not very much appreciated, and consequently a good deal of 

 guesswork has to be done in order to ari-ive at aiij^thing dctinite. 



The resources of this county are derived from agriculture, grazing, 

 lumbering, and manufactures. 



The area for agricultural purposes is somewhat limited, lying between 

 the shores of Monterey Bay and the foothills, except the Pajaro Valley, 

 •which has a lai-ge scope of rich alluvial bottom lands, returning large 

 yields of wheat, barley, oats, potatoes, and beans, etc. ; also many small 

 valleys, running into the foothills and scattered through the mountains, 

 of exceeding richness. The last winter was unfavorable for jjjoughing 

 and sowing in season, being too wet about the usual time of sowing; 

 and an unusual amount of north wind, Avith cold, fi'osty nights, made 

 the season very late. Although a larger breadth being sown this year, 

 I tliiidv the amount of cereals will be about equal to former j-ears. 



The grazing portion of the county is chiefly in the mountains and 

 foothills, and being more or less covered with timber and Ijrush, does 

 not fui'nish a great deal of pasture; but the mountains in Pajaro and 

 Pescadei'o are open, and furnish an abundance of pasture. In Pescadero, 

 the grazing extends to the shore of the oceaia, and several large cheese 

 and butter dairies are successfully carried on. 



The lumbering interests extend the length of the county, but at pres- 

 ent are confined to the streams. There are large bodies of redwood not 

 as yet accessible. When needed, the indomitable enei'g}' of our lumber- 

 men will make roads into them. Several shingle machines are attached 

 to the sawmills, with a cnpacity for making twenty thousand shingles 

 per day; also, planing, tongue and groove, lath, and stave machines. I 

 estimate the lumber sawed to be ten million five hundred thousand feet 

 per season. 



The manufactures are principally located at Santa Cruz and vicinit}^, 

 consisting of leather, lime, paper, powder, glue, and soap. 



The ])owder mill makes on an average four thousand kegs, of twenty- 

 five pounds each, per month. 



