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To punish the erinijt of truin wrecking with death 



or iiiipriM'Mmi-iit I'M' lili 1 . 

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A|.|>n>liriutiiur $'>,<w for t-iu-h of the ycare 1891 and 

 \i..-n.l.-il in tin- em-iiuru^finont of ramie 

 . U.th by tin- i>ur-husr iif ramie HH.IM tor I'n > 

 iliMril'Uti'Hi I" t'uriiirrs anil in tin- payment of a 

 iniTolniiitulili' ramie lihi-r ^PAMI in the 



:i x ' to honorably discharged Union Boldiers and 



:i |T< h-n-iii-r ill employment ill the public Berv- 

 ! u[M)ii pulilic \vorkn. 

 To provi.le i'"i- tin- rstublishim-Mt of a law library 



in eaeh county. 



Mtiiitf to tlie act of Congress, approved Aug. 



, in uid of agricultural colleges in tlie various 



Appropriating $121,400 for improvements at the 

 Kct'orin School at \Vhittier. 



Appropriating $lL'r>,WO for additional building at 

 the Home tor Fei blo-mindod Children at Glenn. Ellen, 

 Sonoma County. 



Appropriating $25,000 for completing the building 

 for the Mate .Normal School at Chico. 



Appropriating $05,000 for additions and repairs at 

 the r'olsoiii Stute Prison. 



Appropriating $55,000 for improvements at the 

 Southern California Insane Hospital. 



Appropriating $37,000 for additional buildings at 

 the normal school at San Jose. 



Education. The following public-school sta- 

 ti.-tics for the years ending June 80, 1889, and 

 .lime 30, 1890, are contained in the last report of 

 the Superintendent of Public Instruction : 



The securities held in trust by the State Treas- 

 urer for the School fund amounted on June 30, 

 1890, to $3,268,850, of which the sum of $1,541,- 

 500 was in State bonds and $1,726,850 in county 

 bonds. The Superintendent reports that the 

 present compulsory school law can not be en- 

 forced effectually without further legislation. 



Charities. At the Napa Insane Asylum there 

 \\viv 1,378 patients on Nov. 15, 1890, or over 300 

 beyond the proper capacity of the institution. 

 At the Stockton Insane Asylum the number of 

 patients at the close of the" fiscal vear 1890 was 

 1,588. To relieve the crowded condition of these 

 institutions the Legislature of 1889 provided for 

 the establishment of two new asylums at San 

 Bernardino and at Ukiah, Mendocino County. 

 The corner-stone of the asylum at Ukiah was 

 laid on Dec. 9, 1890, of that at San Bernardino 

 one week later, and the work of construction has 

 continued through this year. In addition, the 

 Insane Asylum at Agnews, originally intended 

 exclusively for incurable patients, has been 

 opened to all classes of the insane, and consider- 

 able numbers have been transferred to it from 

 the Napa and Stockton asylums. 



Prisons. The number of prisoners at the 

 San Quentin prison on June 80, 1889, was 1,873, 

 and at the Folsom prison 549. On June 80, 

 1890, the number at both prisons had consider- 



ably increased. At the San Quentin prison, since 

 1889 the labor of convicts has been d< 

 solely to the manufacture of jute goods. Tin- 

 jute bags manufactured are sold at a low figure, 

 and tho farmers, who use them in sacking their 

 crops, have been relieved from the high pri > 

 heretofore exacted by the combination of indi- 

 vidual dealers in imported bagging. 



Coal. Although coal deposits nnve been dis- 

 covered in many of the counties of the Stat 

 of the Sierras, no mining operations on a com- 

 mercial scale have been prosecuted, except in 

 Amador and Contra Costa counties. Coal was 

 discovered in the Mount Diablo district in 1852, 

 but productive mining was not prosecuted until 

 after the year 1860. This district now furnish)-* 

 the major portion of the product of the State. 

 The coals of California so far as at present known 

 are all lignitic, generally inferior to the coals of 

 Washington and Oregon, and can not compete 

 with the better coals supplied by sea from Brit- 

 ish Columbia and Australia. The total product 

 of coal in California during the calendar year 

 1889 was 121,820 short tons, valued at $288,232, 

 showing an average price of $2.31 per ton at the 

 mines. The average number of persons em- 

 ployed during the year was 283, and the total 

 wages paid $169,649. 



Lumber. The output of mills in California 

 during 1890 was as follows : Huraboldt and Del 

 Norte counties, 180,744,142 feet; Mendocino and 

 Sonoma, 165,775,261; Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, 

 San Mateo, 96,850,000 ; Sierra, Yuba, El Dorado, 

 Placer, 91,500,000; Nevada, 86,500,000; Colusa, 

 Tehama, Butte, Lake, 73,500,000 ; Trinity, Shas- 

 ta, Siskiyou, 68,500,000; Inyo, Tulare, Fresno, 

 Mariposa, 31,575,000; Amador, Tuolumne, Cala- 

 veras, Mono, 27,222,027 ; San Diego, San Bernar- 

 dino, Kern, 27,000,000 ; Plumas, Modoc, Lassen, 

 15,750,000. Total, 864,916,430 feet. 



Industrial. For 1890 the area of the State 

 devoted to wheat raising was only about 3,000,- 

 000 acres, or 900,000 acres less than in 1889. The 

 crop produced was about 1,000,000 tons, or 400,- 

 000 tons less than in 1889. The heavy rains of 

 the winter of 1889-'90 so flooded the low lands 

 that the crop was almost entirely grown on the 

 high lands. Fully 70 per cent, of it was raised 

 in the southern counties. The wool product 

 for 1890 is estimated at 36,000,000 pounds, 

 against 84,008,370 pounds for 1889. The vintage 

 of 1890 is estimated at 17,500,000 gallons, dis- 

 tributed among the counties as follows: Napa, 

 4,500.000; Sonoma, 8,000.000; Alameda, 1,750,- 

 000; Santa Clara and Santa Cruz, 8,000,000; 

 Fresno, 1,500.000; Los Angeles and other south- 

 ern counties, 1.500,000 ; Sacramento and north- 

 ern counties. 1,250,000 ; all other districts. 1.000,- 

 000. In addition, about 1,000,000 gallons of 

 brandy were made, consuming about 5,000.000 

 gallons of wine. The estimate for the raisin 

 product of 1890 is 1,400,000 twenty-pound K-xe-. 



CANADA, DOMINION OF. See DOMINION 

 OF CANADA. 



CAPE COLONY AND SOFTH AFRICA. 

 The Cape of Good Hope is a British colony in 

 South Africa possessing self-government. The 

 Governor is Sir Henry Brougham Loch, who was 

 transferred from Victoria in 1889. The Prime 

 Minister in the beginning of 1891 was IVdl 

 Rhodes. 



