STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



387 



Destination. 



Increase. 



Decrease. 



New York, etc 



Great Britain 



Mexico 



Peru 



Hawaiian Islands 



China 



Australia and New Zealand. 



Victoria 



Japan 



Other countries 



$1,104,248 

 219,800 



295,410 



88,657 



72,724 

 61,644 



[,842,483 



$132,910 



140,374 



32,938 



253,610 



$559,832 



Net increase this year, one million two hundred and eighty-two thou- 

 sand six hundred and fifty-one dollars. 



It will be seen that our export ti'ade with Atlantic ports is steadily on 

 the increase. The increase of our exports of copper ore will atti*act 

 especiaf attention. We shipped in eighteen hundred and sixty-five, three 

 hundred and two thousand seven hundred and ninety-four sacks of copper 

 ore to New York and Boston; and to Swansea, one hundred and forty- 

 two thousand five hundred and eighty-one sacks, and one thousand five 

 hundred and twenty tons. While this indicates a rapid development of 

 our copper mines, we would much prefer that the ore should be reduced 

 in our own State, and only the metal shipped abroad. Time will accom- 

 plish this also. 



It will be observed that the foregoing tables of California produce 

 exported do not show all the shipments for eighteen hundred and sixty- 

 four and eighteen hundred and sixty-five. For instance, in eighteen 

 hundred and sixty-four, we shipped to New York and Boston, of man- 

 ganese, two hundred and twenty-five tons; of plumbago, one hundred 

 and forty-one packages ; of lead and silver ores, one thousand two hun- 

 dred and four sacks, and of silver ore alone, one hundred and thirty- 

 eight sacks ; and in the same year we shipped to England six thousand 

 and twenty-six sacks of silver ore, and twenty-one thousand four hun- 

 dred and thirty-six sacks of mixed copper and silver ores; while, in 

 eighteen hundred and sixty-five, we shipped to New York and Boston 

 two thousand eight hundi'cd and forty-one sacks of i^ilver ores, and four 

 hundred and seventy-three sacks of various metals; and to England we 

 shipped the same year one thousand two hundred and seventy-three 

 sacks of gold ore, seven thousand three hundred and ninety-four sacks, 

 thirty-three casks, and forty-five boxes of silver, besides six hundred and 

 eighty-seven sacks, twenty-seven boxes, and nine tons of various metallic 

 ores. There are many other articles which we have begun to export 

 withjn the last two years, in small quantities, that are nut enunieruted 

 in the above tables of details. 



