CALIFORNIA. 



tary warrant, 580,572 under "scrip," 343,169 

 under swamp locations, and 28,129 under In- 

 dian scrip. 



Besides these, 10,424,000 acres are now 

 claimed by railroad companies as follows: 



Central Pacific, 1,394,000 ; Western Pacific, 

 500,000; California and Oregon, 2,800,000; 

 Copperopolis, 230,000 ; Southern Pacific, 6,000,- 

 000. 



The State produces about 20,000,000 bushels 

 of wheat, 8,000,000 of barley, 1,200,000 of oats, 

 16,000 of rye, 1,000,000 of maize, 10,000 of 

 buckwheat, 64,000 of peas, 78,000 of peanuts, 

 150,000 of beans, 337,000 of castor-beans, 

 1,400,000 of potatoes, 75,000 of sweet potatoes, 

 70,000 of onions, 350,000 tons of hay, 570,000 

 pounds of hops, 90,000 pounds tobacco, 3,500 

 tons of beets, 5,000,000 pounds of butter, 

 3,000,000 pounds of cheese, 500,000 pounds of 

 honey, 4,000,000 gallons of wine, 300,000 gal- 

 lons of brandy, 220,000,000 feet of sawn lumber 

 and 100,000,000 shingles annually. It has 

 25,000,000 grape-vines, 10,000,000 mulberry- 

 trees, 1,200,000 apple-trees, 1,000,000 peach, 

 300,000 pear, 200,000 plum, 100,000 cherry, 

 43,000 nectarine, 40,000 quince, 52,000 apricot, 

 33,000 fig, 4,000 lemon, 25,000 orange, 20,000 

 olive, 6,500 prune, 25,000 almond, and 15,000 

 walnut trees ; 10,000,000 strawberry-vines, 

 1,400,000 raspberry, and 172,000 gooseberry 

 bushes; 209,000 horses, 24,000 mules, 500,000 

 neat-cattle, 2,200,000 sheep, 7,000 Cashmere 

 goats, 412,000 hogs, 1,500,000 chickens, 150,000 

 turkeys, 25,000 geese, 80,000 ducks, 32,000 

 beehives, 62 steam grist-mills, 205 water-power 

 grist-mills, 207 steam saw-mills, 161 water- 

 power saw-mills, 360 quartz-mills, 874 mining 

 ditches, with an aggregate length of 12,000 

 miles, and 720 irrigating ditches, which irri- 

 gate 70,000 acres. 



The average crop of grapes is about 8,000 

 pounds to the acre, and some of the vineyards 

 afford a net profit of over $1,000 per acre 

 every year. The mines of California are still 

 prolific of the precious metals. The latest 

 statistics are those of 1869, which give the ex- 

 portation of gold from San Francisco as $37,- 

 287,117, and the receipts as $51,226,769, of 

 which $21,472,851 are from California mines. 

 The annual coal product of the State is about 

 $1,000',000; quicksilver, $1,500,000; silver, $1,- 

 000,000; other minerals, $500,000, making the 

 total mining production of the State $27,000,- 

 000. There are 421 quartz-mills, of which 206 

 . are operated by steam-power. The machinery 

 in these quartz-mills cost $6,500,000. There 

 are 158 grist-mills, costing $2,600,000. Seventy 

 of these are propelled by steam-power. Saw- 

 mills count up 417, of which 231 are propelled 

 by steam. They can turn out 4,300,000 feet 

 of lumber per day. In 1869 there were 492 

 mining ditches, aggregating 4,842 miles in 

 length. 



The total value of the industrial products of 

 the State for a single year is about $182,000,000, 

 of which $89,000,000, or about 45 per cent., is 



derived from agriculture, $75,000,000 from 

 manufactures, $27,000,000 from mining. The 

 assessed value of property in the State is 

 $247,000,000, which is said to be but one- 

 fourth of the actual market value. More than 

 two-fifths of the entire amount is in San Fran- 

 cisco. The number of vessels which arrived 

 at San Francisco in 1869 was 3,524 from for- 

 eign ports, 146 from American Atlantic ports; 

 and 2,904 from American Pacific ports. The 

 total measurement was 1,145,105 tons the 

 vessels from the American Atlantic ports aver- 

 aging 1,100 tons each; foreign ports 860 tons; 

 and from domestic ports 190 tons. Nearly one- 

 fifth of the total tonnage consists of steamers. 

 The quantity of merchandise received from 

 American Atlantic ports by sailing-vessels was 

 273,500tons; while the Panama steamers, which 

 had an aggregate measurement of 117,449 tons 

 for the year, brought domestic merchandise 

 from the Atlantic States valued at $36,104,000 

 in currency. Of foreign merchandise $15,500,- 

 000 worth was imported, including $4,500,000 

 from Great Britain, $2,600,000 from France, 

 $1,650,000 from China, $1,120,000 from the 

 Hawaiian Islands, and $1,300,000 from South 

 America. Among the articles imported are 

 58,000,000 pounds of sugar, 82,000,000 pounds 

 of rice, 2,100,000 of tea, 8,870,000 pounds of 

 coffee, 3,000,000 oranges, 26,000 firkins of but- 

 ter, 314,000 taels of opium, 20,000 cases, of 

 olive-oil, 145,000 cases of coal-oil, 47,000 cases 

 of oysters, 168,000 packages of candles, 51,000 

 cases of wine, 17,000 baskets of champagne, 

 and 20,000 kegs, casks, barrels, and pipes of 

 wine, 20, 000 barrels of whiskey, 15,000 packages 

 of tobacco, 70,000 packages of raisins, 6,715 

 cases of sardines, 18,000 boxes of starch, 47,000 

 packages of soap, and 30,000 cases of boots. 

 Of the merchandise exports of the year, Great 

 Britain took $8,987,389 ; New York, $5,552,- 

 942; China, $1,316,100; Mexico, $1,007,317; 

 British Columbia, $652,945; Hawaiian Islands, 

 $578,556; Japan, $545,122; Central America, 

 $426,583; Australia, $354,206; Peru, $351,936; 

 Brazil, $207,000; and other places, smaller 

 sums. 



There are now about 800 miles of completed 

 railroad in the State. The Pacific Eailroad 

 has its western terminus at Oakland, near San 

 Francisco. From this place to Sacramento, 

 135 miles, it is known as the "Western Pacific. 

 The Central Pacific extends from Sacramento 

 to Ogden 742 miles, of which 105 are in this 

 State where it connects with the Union Pa- 

 cific, which stretches 1,032 miles, to Omaha, 

 in Nebraska. The California and Oregon Eail- 

 road branches off from the Central Pacific at 

 Boseville, 18 miles from Sacramento. It is 

 now completed for about 60 miles, and is ulti- 

 mately to extend to Portland, Oregon. The 

 San Joaquin Valley Kailroad, branching off 

 from the Western Pacific at Stockton, is to run 

 to Visalia, a distance of 160 miles. The South- 

 ern Pacific is 80 miles long, connecting San 

 Francisco with Gilroy, by way of San Jose. 



