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tional amendments, of the manufacture and importa- 

 tion of all alcoholic, vinous, and malt liquors not de- 

 manded for medical, mechanical, or scientific use, and 

 the regulation by law, under some penalties, of the 

 sale of such liquors for such use, and the absolute and 

 total prohibition of the sale for any other purpose. 

 "We deprecate all attempts to substitute any system of 

 hiifh-license, so called, in place of prohibition of the 

 liquor-traffic. 



A Republican State Convention met in Oak- 

 land on April 30, and chose delegates to the 

 Chicago Convention. Resolutions were passed 

 favoring a protective tariff, in favor of amend- 

 ing the Chinese exclusion act so as to render 

 it more stringent and make it perpetual, and 

 instructing the delegates to vote for James G-. 

 Elaine. 



The Democratic State Convention met in 

 Stockton on June 10th. Delegates to the Chi- 

 cago Convention were chosen, and presidential 

 electors nominated. The convention declared 

 in favor of Samuel J. Tilden for President and 

 Thomas A. Hendricks for Vice-President, with 

 Allen G. Thurman as second choice for Presi- 

 dent. A resolution was adopted repudiating 

 the presidential aspirations of Stephen J. Field. 

 Other resolutions approved the calling of the 

 extra legislative session, declared against na- 

 tional banks, and favored the adoption of the 

 proposed constitutional amendment providing 

 for text-books in the public schools. 



A second Republican State Convention was 

 held in Sacramento in July, to nominate presi- 

 dential electors. Resolutions were adopted 

 favoring the text-book amendment to the Con- 

 stitution, and demanding that the industry of 

 the manufacture of the raisin shall be protected 

 by a protective duty, and the restoration of 

 the tariff on wool as fixed by the law of 1867. 



Election. At the election, on November 4th, 

 the total vote was 193,738, of which the Blaine 

 electors received 100,816; Cleveland, 88,307; 

 St. John, 2,640 ; Butler, 1,975. Five Republic- 

 an Congressmen were elected, while one Demo- 

 crat (in the first district) was successful by a 

 bare majority. Half of the Senate and the 

 entire Assembly were voted for, and a large 

 Republican majority in the Legislature was 

 chosen. Three constitutional amendments were 

 submitted to the people and adopted. The first 

 authorizes water-works in cities and towns, 

 the second provides for the printing of school- 

 books by the State, and the third provides for 

 a State Board of Equalization. 



Education. The number of pupils enrolled in 

 the public schools in 1882 was 168,024; in 

 1883, 174,611; number of schools in 1882, 

 3,036; in 1883, 3,282; new school-houses 

 built in 1882, 111; in 1883, 104; number of 

 teachers in 1882, 3,777 (2,621 females); in 

 1883, 3,930 (2,816 females). The number of 

 children between five and seventeen years of 

 age is 222,846. 



Crops. The cereal product of the State in 

 1883 was as follows: Wheat, 32,659,870 bush- 

 els, grown on 2,634,710 acres; barley, 19,000,- 

 232 bushels, on 775,405 acres; oats, 3,632,657 



bushels, on 122,618 acres; rye, 342,876 bush- 

 els, on 29,351 acres. In 1884 the following 

 was the product: Wheat, 57,420,188 bushels, 

 on 3,587,864 acres; barley, 23,432,240 bushels, 

 on 966,763 acres; oats, 3,050,672 bushels, on 

 93,199 acres; corn, 5.988,316 bushels, on 170,- 

 332 acres. Sonoma corfnty raised 3,440,000 

 bushels of the corn, and Los Angeles 1,150,000. 

 The chief wheat-producing counties, in the 

 order of their yield for the year, were, Stanis- 

 laus, Colusa, Yolo, San Joaquin, Tulare, Teha- 

 ma, Merced, Contra Costa, Sutter, Los Angeles, 

 Butte, Sonoma, Saiita Barbara, Santa Clara, 

 Fresno, Solano, Sacramento, and Monterey. 

 The wheat yield of 1884 was the largest in the 

 history of the State. The largest barley-pro- 

 ducing counties were, Monterey, Santa Bar- 

 bara, Santa Clara, Los Angeles, Bntte, San 

 Bernardino, Stanislaus, and Alameda. 



Statistics. The following table gives com- 

 parative statistics for San Francisco and Cali- 

 fornia for 1882 and 1883 : 



The number of convicts in the State Prison 

 at San Quentin, Nov. 30, 1884, was 1,157. 



Irrigation. The fact that no rain falls dur- 

 ing the summer months in most parts of Cali- 

 fornia, and the ground becomes very dry, 

 thereby arresting the growth of vegetation, 

 renders it necessary to supply water to the 

 soil artificially. In some of the dry sections, 

 as in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and San 

 Diego counties, the water-supply is limited. 

 For a part of this region the irrigation works 

 and systems, as they existed in 1879, were 

 grouped as follows by the State Engineer: 



Of the water-supply sent down by the Sierra 

 Nevada into San Joaquin valley, only a small 



