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road, are great considerations in its favor. Ttie town is groAivang rapidly 

 now, and land has increased greatly in value. 



§ 24. Legal matters. — Congress has granted to the State of California, 

 Yosemito Yalley and the Big Tree Grove of Mariposa; and has passed an 

 act providing for the sale of the quartz mines, on which work to the 

 amount of $1,000 has been done; and for the sale of the agricultural 

 lands in the mineral districts. 



§ 25. Communications. — In 1862, the only railway in the State was 

 the Sacramento Yalley road, 20 miles from Sacramento to Folsom. Now 

 we have the Central Pacific completed 95 miles, from Sacramento to 

 Cisco; the San Francisco and San Jose road, 50 miles; the Western 

 Pacific, completed from San Jose to Yallejo's mill, 20 mUes ; the Alameda 

 and Hay ward road, 15 miles; the Oakland and Brooklyn road, 4 miles; 

 the Napa Yalley road, 25 miles ; the Oroville and Marysville road, 25 

 miles ; the Central California road, from Folsom to Marysville (unfinished), 

 40 miles ; and the California Pacific, from Yallejo to Sacramento (un- 

 finished), 60 miles ; and the Folsom and Shingle Springs road, 40 miles. 



A monthly line of steamers runs to China and Japan ; another to Mazat- 

 lan ; and a third is to be established to the Hawaiian Islands. There are 

 two lines of telegraph across the continent, placing us in instantaneous 

 communication with the Atlantic States and Europe. 



§ 26. Californian Books. — Considerable contributions to the literature 

 of California have been made during the last five years. Among the 

 books written in or about California, or published by Californians, arc : 

 the first volume of the Geology and volume first of the Paleontology of the 

 State Geological Survey; the Reports of the Pacific Railroad Survey; 

 the History of California, by Franklin Tuthill ; the History and Resources 

 of California (in French), by Ernest Frignet; the Resources, Society, and 

 Industry of California (in German), by Karl Ruehl ; a School History of 

 California, by Lucia Norman ; the Mineral Resources of the Pacific Slope, 

 by J. Ross Browne, U. S. Commissioner of Mining Statistics ; a Treatise 

 on Mining Law, by Gregory Yale ; a collection of California Poems, called 

 " Outcroppings ;" another styled "Poetry of the Pacific;" a volume of 

 poems, by Charles Y^arren Stoddart ; the Jumping Frog of Calaveras, by 

 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens); Phoenixiana, by Lieut. Derby; the Ad- 

 ventures of James Capen Adams, the Grizzly Bear Hunter, by Theodore 

 H. Hittell ; and Treatises on Grape Culture and Y^ine-making, by A. Har- 

 aszthy and T. H. Hyatt, and a Manual of Silk Culture, by L. Prevost. 



San Francisco, April 15, 1868, 



