CALIFORNIA. 



follows in the first eleven months of the given 

 years : 



The arrivals and departures by rail and sea 

 in the given eleven months are shown in the 

 next column : 



The population of the State by counties and 

 race, according to the census of 1880, is given 

 in the following table : 



1 In 1874, part from Klamath. 



2 In 1872, part to Napa. 



3 In 1874, from part of Siskiyou. 

 * In 1874, part to San Benito 



6 In 1872, part from Lake. 



Included in the aggregate are 6,018 colored 

 persons and 16,277 Indians; 518,196 were 

 males and 346,518 females, 571,820 natives and 

 292,874 of foreign birth. 



The number of persons ten years of age and 

 upward, unable to read, was 48,583, or 7*1 per 

 cent ; unable to write, 53,430, or 7'8 per cent, 

 of whom 7,660 were native whites and 27^340 

 colored (including Chinese and Indians). 



There were living in the United States 355,- 

 157 natives of California. There were 262,583 

 white males twenty-one years of age and over 

 in the State (135,209 of native and 127,374 of 

 foreign birth), and 66,809 colored, including 

 Chinese and Indians. 



On farms there were 237,710 horses, 28,343 

 mules and asses, 210,078 milch-cows, 2,288 

 working-oxen, 451,941 other cattle, 4,152,349 

 sheep, and 603,550 swine. The number of 

 manufacturing establishments was 5,885 ; cap- 

 ital, $61,243,784; hands employed, 43,799; 

 value of materials used, $72,607,709 ; of prod- 

 ucts, $116,227,973. 



The yield of barley, according to the census, 

 was 12,579,561 bushels (more than any other 

 State, and more than a quarter of the entire 



8 In 1874, from part of Monterey. 



7 In 1871, part to Ventura. 



8 In 1874, part to Modoc, and part from Klamath. 



9 In 1871, from part of Santa Barbara; in 1873, organized. 

 10 Including 86 Japanese. 



product of the country); of corn, 1,993,325; 

 of oats, 1,341,271; of wheat, 29,017,707. 



THE DEBRIS QUESTION. Great interest was 

 felt throughout the State in the case of the 

 People of the State of California against the 

 Gold Run Ditch and Mining Company, which 

 for fifty-eight days was on trial before Judge 

 Jackson Temple in the Superior Court, Sacra- 

 mento County. The defendant is a corporation 

 organized for the purpose of mining by the 

 hydraulic process and selling water to miners 

 and others, and possessing certain mines and 

 mineral land adjacent to the North Fork of the 

 American River, near the town of Gold Run, 

 Placer County. A decision was rendered in 

 June, and the following extract from the opin- 

 ion of the judge explains the nature and ob- 

 ject of the action : 



This action is brought to restrain the defendant 

 from dumping its tailings into the North Fork of the 

 American Kiver. It is charged that these tailings be- 

 ing washed down by the current, are deposited in and 

 fill up the channel of the American River below Alder 

 Creek, as well as the Sacramento, impairing the navi- 

 gation, increasing the liability of both to overflow, 

 and making each overflow more destructive, causing 

 deposits upon the farming lands, thereby rendering 



