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1884 being 37,415,330 pounds, and for 1885 

 50,439,840 pounds. 



The raisin industry has grown from a prod- 

 uct of 180,000 pounds in 1881 to 14,060,000 

 pounds in 1880. Nearly all of this comes from 

 three districts, the Fresno, the Riverside, and 

 the Orange and Santa Ana. The total dried- 

 fruit crop for 1886 was 20,745,000 pounds, 

 against 5,070,000 pounds for 1883. In this 

 total are included, besides raisins : 



Pound*. 



Prunes 2,125,000 



Apples 80U.OOO 



Peaches 1,050,000 



Plums 685,000 



Pound. 



Pears 60,000 



Grapes 175,000 



Apricots 600,000 



Nectarines 50,000 



Shipments of oranges from the State aggre- 

 gated, in 1886, 25,966,830 pounds. Of this 

 amount 21,513,880 pounds went from Los 

 Angeles, 4,267,850 from Colton, 81,300 from 

 Sacramento, and 43,800 from San Francisco. 



The product of extracted honey for the same 

 year amounts to 6,000,000 pounds, besides 

 800,000 pounds of comb, and 80,000 pounds of 

 bees-wax. 



The vintage of 1887 was 15,000,000 gallons, 

 or nearly the same as in 1884. It reached 

 17,000,000 gallons in 1886. 



The salt-water fisheries have flourished, but 

 of the principal inland-fishing industry, the 

 Commissioners of Fisheries say : " It is a 

 matter of serious regret that our choicest and 

 most valued fish, the Quinnat salmon, is an- 

 nually decreasing, and the supply for exporta- 

 tion and home consumption is diminishing. 

 On account of the small run, and decreased 

 take of salmon, more than half of the canneries 

 that were operated in 1883-'84 were closed in 

 1885-'86. The number of cases packed in 1885 

 was 90,000, as against 120,000 for 1883, and 

 200,000 for 1882. In 1882 nineteen canneries 

 were in successful operation, while in 1885 

 only five or six were running." 



By the report of July, 1882, made to the Bank 

 Commissioners, the deposits of the savings- 

 banks of San Francisco amounted to $46,369,- 

 689.91. The report of the same banks for 

 January, 1887, shows a deposit of $57,586.- 

 741.31, a gain of $11,117,051.40, or of $2,779,- 

 262.85 per year. The savings-banks outside 

 this city gained in the same period $1,770,349.- 

 36. The total gain for the whole State in four 

 years was $12,887,400.76, and the total depos- 

 its at last report was $66,196,189.54. The 

 population of California is put at a million, and 

 the deposits in her savings-banks, which are 

 largely the surplus earnings of her wage-work- 

 ers, equal $66 to each man, woman, and child 

 in the State. 



The as-f-<- ,1 value of railroad property is 

 slightly over $7.000,000. There were operated 

 in 1886 in the State 2,425 miles of broad-gauge, 

 and 426 miles of narrow-gauge road. The 

 total assessed valuation of the State was for 

 1885, $761,271,449; for 1886, $768,395,600. 



Education. The State supports a normal school 

 at San Jose, and a branch normal school at 

 Los Angeles, both of which are flourishing; 



the former having in 1886 an average of 430 

 pupils, and the latter 252. Provision was made 

 by the Legislature of this year for the estab- 

 lishment of a second branch school in North- 

 ern California. 



The public schools are supported by income 

 from State bonds, by the State school fund, 

 and by local taxation. In 1885 the Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction apportioned to 

 them from the State fund $1,845,883 ; in 1886, 

 $2,012,235; in 1887, $1,528,641. The State 

 University and the normal schools are sup- 

 ported by special appropriations. The school 

 law forbids the use of the school fund for the 

 support of any schools other than of the pri- 

 mary and grammar grades, but permits dis- 

 tricts or municipalities to maintain high-schools 

 by a local tax. An amendment to the State 

 Constitution, adopted in 1884, created a State 

 board to prepare a series of text- books to be 

 exclusively used in the common schools of the 

 State ; and several elementary books, compiled 

 by leading educators of the State, have been 

 published. The present Legislature appro- 

 priated money for a continuation of the series, 

 and directed that a suitable treatise on the 

 injurious effect of alcoholic liquors should be 

 included in it. 



The total valuation of school property for 

 1886 was $8,920,984, a gain of $493,797 over 

 1885, and of $984,364 over 1886. 



Mention has already been made of the gen- 

 erous provision of the Legislature for the State 

 University. Higher education in the State 

 will be still further advanced by the founding 

 of Stanford University, the corner-stone of 

 which was laid at Palo Alto, with appropriate 

 ceremonies, on May 20. The founder, Senator 

 Stanford, contemplates the establishment of an 

 institution of the highest standard, richly 

 equipped and endowed. 



Charities and Prisons. In the last two fiscal 

 years the State expended for the orphan asy- 

 lums, $443,526.33; for aged persons in indi- 

 gent circumstances, $123,145.56; for the Vet- 

 erans' Home, $20,913.60; and for the Home 

 for Feeble-Minded Children, $37,139.44, mak- 

 ing a total for charitable institutions of $624,- 

 724.93. 



It also supports a school for the deaf, dumb, 

 and blind, at which 186 persons have received 

 instruction during the last two years. A sepa- 

 rate institution for the adult blind was pro- 

 vided for by the Legislature of 1885, but un- 

 fortunate management has partially defeated 

 the purposes of the act. 



There are two insane asylums, the one at 

 Stockton having 1,486 patients in 1886, an in- 

 crease of over 135 per year during the last 

 two years. The asylum at Napa held in 1886 

 1,436 patients, and two years previous 1,319, 

 showing an increase of 117, or less than half 

 that of Stockton. An asylum for the chronic 

 insane in Santa Clara County was completed 

 in 1887. 



The State Prison at San Qtieutin contained 



