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parently as vigorous as ever, the product of the past season being the 

 best in quality ever grown. As these trees commence bearing when 

 three years old, producing from fifty to seventy-five gallons per tree 

 when fully grown, it will be seen that the olive, at least, is destined to 

 be one of the leading varieties. The oil is worth four and a half to six 

 dollars per gallon, and the pickled fruit seventy -five cents per gallon. 

 It is a handsome evergreen, and these trees scattered over the sur- 

 rounding hills would soon change them to fields of perpetual verdure, 

 and yield a sure and rich reward for their cultivation. 



TOBACCO — COTTON —HONEY — ETC. 



The experiments that have been made in the cultivation of tobacco 

 have been very satisfactory, both as to quantity and quality, and this 

 will soon become an article of export. Castor beans are also attracting 

 considerable attention, thirty thousand pounds having been shipped from 

 here this year. Experiments have also been made in growing cotton, 

 and while the staple is good, not enough has been grown to test the 

 yield. Cotton planters say that both soil and climate are favorable, and 

 there is no reason why the yield should not be good. 



At the present time the honey business is one of the important re- 

 sources of the county, and has increased from a yield of fifteen hundred 

 pounds in eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, to a shipping surplus of not 

 less than four hundred thousand pounds, Messrs. Clark & Harbison alone 

 shipping two hundred and six thousand pounds. There are now over 

 fort}- apiaries in the county, and the export surplus next year will prob- 

 ably be about one million pounds. 



The chief articles of exportation from the port of San Diego this year 

 (given in the order of their importance) are gold bullion, wheat, wool, 

 honey, salt, whale oil, flour, hides and pelts, dried fish, tallow, castor 

 beans, early potatoes, and beeswax. 



PROGRESS. 



There has been wonderful progress in this county during the past five 

 years. The population has increased from less than one thousand in 

 eighteen hundred and sixty-eight to more than ten thousand at this 

 time, and the taxable property from four hundred and seventy-one thou- 

 sand six hundred and ninety-one dollars, to three million one hundred 

 and nineteen thousand seven hundred dollars. The export products, 

 which in eighteen hundred and sixty-nine were less than one hundred 

 thousand dollars, will not be less than two million dollars in eighteen 

 hundred and seventy-four, while the three leading export products — ■ 

 wheat, wool, and honey — will be more than doubled for the season of 

 eighteen hundred and seventy-five. 



MINERAL RESOURCES. 



As early as eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, gold was shipped 

 from this port, and sufficient discoveries were made from eighteen hun- 

 dred and fifty nine to eighteen hundred and sixty four, to warrant the 

 erection of a quartz mill on what is now known as the Wolt'skill Ran- 

 cho, about thirty-five miles northwest of San Diego, which was worked 

 for about two years, and from the discovery of the mine until that time 

 about a hundred thousand dollars was taken out. It was not, however, 



