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lit C.lcii Kllfii, Sonoma County, for the fo- 

 ' >l< parlinriit. 



Appropriating $145,000 for completing the building 

 of thi' 1'rrM'Hi Si'liiml <>t' Industry at Imn-. 



Appropriating $100,000 for completing the (Vmali: 

 ward i it' tin- Mi mlocino State Asylum. 



Appropriating $117,600 for a new building and 

 othi-r iiiiiinivi'iiii'nts at the Southern California In- 

 Asvliim. 



Appropriating $15,000 for completing and preserv- 

 ing Sutler's Fort 



Appropriating $75,000 for a new building for the 

 Stati' Normal School at Los Angeles. 



Appropriating $25,000 for the completion and print- 

 in^ nf a volume expository of the resources of the 

 State, to be distributed at the World's Fair, Chicago. 



Appropriating $63,500 for a new building and other 

 improvements at the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Asylum. 



Appropriating $100.000 for additional improve- 

 ments at the Reform School for Juvenile Oflenders 

 at Whittier. 



United States Senator. On June 21, by the 

 death of Leland Stanford, the State lost the serv- 

 ices of her senior Senator in Congress. As the 

 Legislature was not then in session, Gov. Mark- 

 ham, on July 22, appointed ex-Gov. George C. 

 Perkins as his successor until the meeting of the 

 next Legislature. 



Education. The following public-school sta- 

 tistics for the years ending June 30, 1891, and 

 June 30, 1892, are contained in the last report of 

 the Superintendent of Public Instruction : 



The series of public-school text-books pre- 

 pared under the direction of the State Board of 

 Education, and published and sold by the State 

 at cost prices, has not given entire satisfaction to 

 teachers or pupils. In his report to the Legis- 

 lature of 1893 the Superintendent of Public In- 

 struction recommended that many of these books 

 be revised or wholly rewritten, and, in accord- 

 ance with his suggestions, an act was passed 

 authorizing the Board of Education to revise 

 the first, second, and third readers, the English 

 grammar, the United States history, and the 

 advanced arithmetic, and to compile a primary 

 history of the United States. For these pur- 



Ces $25,000 was appropriated from the School- 

 k fund. 



Statistics. The following statistics, showing 

 the resources of the State for the year 1892, are 

 compiled from the " San Francisco Chronicle " : 

 Assessed valuation of all property, $1,275,816,- 

 228 ; assessed value of real estate, $797,221,036 ; 

 Assessed value of improvements, $249,630,321 ; 

 assessed value of personal property, $187,008,- 

 874; assessed value of railroads, $41,956,000; 

 total indebtedness of all counties, $6,256,301 ; 

 total deposits in savings banks, $120,782,643; 



total deposits in commercial banks, $110,782,- 

 617 ; total deposits in private banks, $1,858,908 ; 

 total deposits in all banks, $233,424,168 ; total 

 merchandise imports at San Francisco, $46,209,- 

 985 ; total merchandise exports from San Fran- 

 cisco, $42,799,100; quicksilver product, 27,259 

 flasks ; whaling catch of San Francisco fleet, 

 $1,250,000 ; wheat crop (Agricultural Depart- 

 ment estimate), 38,554,000 bushels ; wine receipts 

 at San Francisco, 10,219,096 gallons ; brandy 

 product, 2,000,000 gallons ; barley crop, 12,333,- 

 000 bushels; raisin crop, 57,162,000 pounds; 

 prune crop, 30,000,000 pounds ; wool crop, 34,- 

 000,000 pounds ; hop crop, 39,750 bales ; fresh 

 fruit shipped east, 108,828,667 pounds ; orange 

 crop 1892-'93, 7,500 car loads ; canned goods put 

 up in the State, 971,000 cases ; area of fruit trees 

 now planted, 401,415 acres : area under ditch, 

 4,500,000 acres ; area actually irrigated, 3,550,- 

 000 acres ; average value of irrigated land, $150 

 an acre ; number of artesian wells, 8,500 ; area 

 in peaches, 54,834 acres ; area in prunes, 49,626 

 acres ; area in oranges, 59,006 acref . 



Irrigation Congress. On Oct. 10 an inter- 

 national irrigation congress met at Los Angeles, 

 at which more than 200 delegates were present, 

 representing Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois, Tennes- 

 see, Washington, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, 

 Iowa, Connecticut, Montana, Wyoming, Okla- 

 homa, Mexico, Ecuador, Prussia, France, Hun- 

 gary, and New South Wales. Its session con- 

 tinued for five days. Various phases of the 

 irrigation problem were fully discussed, and 

 resolutions were adopted expressing the general 

 results of the conference. The following plan 

 for future action was recommended and ac- 

 cepted : 



There shall be appointed by the National Executive 

 Committee of the Irrigation Congress a commission 

 for each State and Territory in the arid or semiarid 

 regions, consisting of 5 members each, who shall be 

 competent and experienced men. These commissions 

 shall at once enter upon a careful investigation of the 

 conditions existing in each of their States or Terri- 

 tories, and then formulate plans looking to the adop- 

 tion of a national policy, to be supplemented by ap- 

 propriate local laws. The results of the investigations 

 of the several commissions shall be submitted to the 

 next Irrigation Congress, and upon these reports the 

 final and definite declarations of the people of the 

 Western States and Territories may be based. 



Hydraulic Mining. Early in March, 

 through the efforts of Congressman Caminetti, 

 a bill was passed by Congress to promote the re- 

 sumption of hydraulic mining in the State, and 

 to restore the former navigable conditions in the 

 Sacramento and San Joaquin river systems. 

 The following is a synopsis of the measure : 



A commission of 3 members of the corps of en- 

 gineers of the United States army is created to ma- 

 ture, adopt, and execute plans to carry out the pur- 

 poses of the measure and to prescribe rules and regu- 

 lations therefor. These will include methods of 

 restraining material now in the rivers and tributaries, 

 as well as that now in place which may be moved by 

 future operations under the law; the determination 

 of the practicability of storage sites for dibris, or 

 water, or as settling reservoirs in tributaries^ or in the 

 basin sloughs and swamp lands ; the examination of 

 mines now working or hitherto worked, without in- 

 jury, to ascertain the results of experience therein ; 

 inspection from time to time of the channels of the 

 river systems, to note the effect of mining operations 

 and erosion generally. 



