CALIFORNIA. 



399 a floating debt. There has been a decrease of 

 the total county debt in the last decade amount- 

 ing to $1,706,089. 



Population. The national census returns of 

 this year, showing the population of the State 

 by counties, are compared with similar returns 

 for 1880 in the following table: 



* Decrease. 



The population of the city of San Francisco is 

 297,990, an increase of 64,031 in ten years. The 

 population of San Jose is 18,027. an increase of 

 5,460 ; of Oakland, 48,590, an increase of 14,035 ; 

 of Sacramento, 26,272, an increase of 4,852 ; of 

 Stockton, 14,376, an increase of 4,094 ; of Los 

 Angeles, 50,394, an increase of 32.911; of San 

 Diego, 1 6, 153, an increase of 13,516. 



Mining. According to the annual report of 

 Wells, Fargo, & Co. for 1889, the product of 

 precious metals for that year in the State was 

 $12,842,757, of which $10.329.044 was in the 

 form of gold dust and bullion ; $664,476, silver 

 bullion ; and $1,849,237, ores and base bullion. 

 During 1889 2,024,496 pounds of quicksilver were 

 produced in California, being notably less than 

 the usual yield. There are 11 productive mines in 



the State. 3 in Lake County having 12 furnaces, 4 

 in Napa County having 12 furnaces, and 1 each 

 in Merced, San'Benito, Santa Clara, and Sonoma 

 Counties, having together 12 furnaces. Santa 

 Clara, Siskiyou, and Trinity Counties each have 

 an unproductive mine. The productive mines and 

 active furnaces in 1889 employed 937 persons, of 

 whom 416 were engaged on surface work and 

 521 were employed underground. 



Manufactures. During the past few years 

 there has been a rapid decline in the wool man- 

 ufacturing industry of the State. In 1888 the 

 Santa Rosa woolen mills were closed, and the 

 Capital Mills at Sacramento were burned and 

 have not been rebuilt. In 1889 the Stockton 

 mills and the San Jose mills stopped. Finally 

 the closing, late in 1889, of the Pioneer Woolen 

 Mills, the oldest and largest concern of the kind 

 on the Pacific coast, marked the end of the 

 manufacture of woolens on a large scale in the 

 State. In March of this year only 6 mills were 

 in operation with 28 carding machines. 



There is but one cotton factory on the Pacific 

 coast, the East Oakland factory, which was es- 

 tablished in 1885, and has prospered. The eight 

 buildings are of brick and one story high. The 

 production in 1886 was $128,908.25. while in 

 three years afterward it amounted to $286,955.18. 



Other industries. It is estimated that about 

 3;900,000 acres in the State were devoted to 

 wheat growing in 1889, and that the crop was 

 between 1,300,000 and 1,400,000 tons. In 1888, 

 an unfavorable season, the crop was about 900,- 

 000 tons. The wool product for 1888 is reported 

 to be 32,569,972 pounds, and for 1889 34,008,370 

 pounds. There has been a gradual diminution 

 of the total product of this industry during the 

 past decade. The product of the dried-fruit in- 

 dustries, and of the bee-raising industry, for 1889, 

 is estimated as follows : 



Pounds. 



Almonds 400,000 



Apples, sun-dried 100,000 



Apples, evaporated 400,000 



Apricots, bleached and evaporated 2 000,000 



Beeswax 80.000 



Fi^s, sun-dried i . . . 100,000 



French prunes 15.000,000 



German prunes 200,000 



Grapes, sun-dried 2.000.000 



Honey, extracted 2,000,000 



Honey, comb 200.000 



Nectarines, bleached 200.000 



Peaches, bleached, unpeeled 3,000,000 



Peaches, bleached, peeled 200,000 



Peaches, sun-dried 500,000 



Pears, sun-dried 50.000 



Plums, sun-dried 800.000 



Raisins, twenty -pound boxes 900,000 



Raisins, in bags 2,000,000 



Walnuts 1,500,000 



Half of the total raisin product comes from 

 the Fresno district. The Riverside and San 

 Bernardino districts produced 260,000 boxes, the 

 San Diego district 60,000 boxes, the Los Angeles 

 district 30,000 boxes, and the northern counties 

 100.000 boxes. 



The vintage of 1889 is estimated at 14,750,000 

 gallons, distributed among the counties as fol- 

 lows: Napa, 3,000,000 ; Sonoma, 1,750,000; Ala- 

 meda, 1.000,000; Santa Clara and Santa Cruz, 

 2.500.000; Sacramento and north, 2,000,000: San 

 Joaquin, 250,000: Fresno, 1.250,000; Los Ange- 

 les and south, 2,000,000 : other counties, 1,000,- 

 000; total, 14,750,000. From 800,000 to 1,000,- 



