LOi 



IFOKNIA. 



swell the aggregated receipts 



P^4fl 

 earnings and 



tion. forth. year was $144.- 



n option. fort. year was 



m again** $7*4.7 1 : f.r !. 



Ttoftrsl boo* of ihb company second 



inMsbondsfeUdu, .,,.!.-... - :.m. 



mort- 



MfS.bondt IWI due in January. 'They amounted 

 tottJOLOOO. with 6 percent, interest for thirty 

 ywn, or a total of $6.618,600. lgin- 



Ufa* of the yt*r there was in the United SUtes 

 i . , .......< .. Ian 1 an 1 tote* -t 



account, for transportation service rendered to 

 the Government by the company, the ..im of 

 81 In the sinking fund there was 

 w. and the oompany was entitled to ad- 

 rrtdiis of $654*6126 and $864,107.76, 

 the total assets of the company in the 



of the Government $1:1.567.836.35. 

 The matter of the railroad reassessment for 

 1887 U Mill unsettled. 



The Southern and Central Pacific Railroads 

 recent selections of more than 500,- 

 f Und. By law they are permitted to 



sslsct only agricultural land, but it Kioontsadsd 

 that much of the land selected is mineral hind, 

 and effort* are being made to prevent the issu- 



railroads therefor. 

 -This bureau, created by the 

 Legislature, was organ i /.-.I in May and has 

 nt regulations for the protection of 

 UM milk, butter, and cheese industry. Heavy 

 penalties will be exacted for adulteration 



' ; oleomargarine and kindred products with- 

 accurately describing them. 

 Mali 



MM VHUTV* mrv IIPIMM u 



uaaos of patents to th- 

 PalryBerea. 



last legislature, was or 



i revenue returns filed in Sep- 

 show that there are 104 stills in the State, 

 i of which employs about i:. eOov. 



r* vmeyardists to conduct distil h-r- 

 iss for the manufacture of grape brandy to be 

 used in flavoring or - fortifying w sweet wines, 

 and on brandy so used no tax is levied. For the 

 f the sweet-wine dhtill.-r- 

 of the "right of forti- 

 roore than 60 gau- 



gcrs in the field, whose services are free to the 

 vineyardisu. The brand v used U 24 pn> 

 sherry, port, angelica, and muscat contain almut 



.,-.:! 



cent of brandy for fort iflcal ion. 



f ,-.v,-- .: . . -,'.} .-. ' r 



UM sseson of 18M-V5. as reported before and 

 after official fortification, the increase noted be- 



'....i' -. . ..... 



- - :--::. /.- . .: 



total, U88UM. Fortified, 

 port, 1^68.165; snerry.M8.716: angelica. 280310; 

 maat. 1*3.168; total, 2.6S4.888. Fresno and 

 LOT Angeles are the great sweet-wine centers. 



VUfcallur* was this year dissolv, i. an<l the du- 



.-1 t>r it were imposed upon the State 



University, with an annual appropriation of $5> 



000. The report of the board, made at the end 



of lat year, showed that of the $30,000 appro- 



the support r,f tho commission for 



1804 and 1808. $14.171.11 had been etpen 



Orange*. The Southern California Fniit Kx- 

 change at Los Angeles reports that during the 



ou, Ts- ; , m | M,i,,|M is" \sxoria1ion. 

 -irty. cir^ani/cd in Frlnuirv. i^ tin- re- 



season of 1804-*06, closing Sept 1, 2,503,500 



; i 



:h t \w exchange. Tin- indmlnl :{.v>o."> curs 

 of mix. ]-. 2.924 cars of seedlings, 881 cars of 

 Mi <)!(< rranean sweets, 254 cars of An-tr.-ili.-m 

 navels, 208 cars of St. Mi. -I. loods, 



rs of 

 I mil 



This S4K-irt 

 sult of n resolution alo|.Ird l.y lii. Knnt-grow- 

 i\. mion. held in Siicrn'inciito in Nov.-m- 

 1( 1. Its object is to establish a Inr 

 information for th<> JIUI-|M ilatin^' th 



iiic-nof Kastrrn fruit shipinrntsainl JiKo 

 for nrninj;iMtf tin- iiuinhcr and inctlnxl of auction 

 sales of such shipment >. It was decided to hav<> 

 only one auction room in rach city, and also 

 that tho sales and rooms should be open and five 

 to all bidders. At its orpan i/.at ion the i 

 represented 75 per cent, of the fruit industry of 

 the State. 

 Insane Avliimg. In PebraarytiM oast wing 



of the San Hernanliiio asylum for the in-ane 

 was fini-hed ; the west \\ing was completed in 

 November, 1802, and was opened in August, 

 1898. With its two wings, the asylum has a 

 frontage of over 800 feet, and includes four 

 wards for men and two for women. In June it, 

 contained 311 patients 207 men and 104 women. 

 This is one of several asylums for the in-ane. 

 The Governor this year refused to si^n the hill 

 making appropriation for its maintenan 

 in his message to the Legislature said that one 

 of the main sources of State extravagance i- t he 

 care of the insane, and that a large percentage 

 of the so-called patients confined in tl.. 

 asylums are not legally entitled to a home in 

 those institutions. 



Folsom Prison. On July 1 1 there was turned 

 over to the State proiierty valued at $2,000,000, 

 the payment for which had been made in convict 

 labor at 50 cents a day for each convict. This 

 property comprised the 483 acr- near Folsoni 

 devoted to the prison site, all the buildings on it. a 

 dam in the American river within the pri-.n -ite, 

 a :io-foot canal 6 feet deep to Folsom, with a 72- 

 foot fall at Folsom, and a power hou>e and fir-t- 

 class electric plant. The work wa- -1. n. 1 

 convicts for the Folsom Water Power Company, 

 successor to the Natoma Water and sftntagConv 

 pany, which owns the bed of the American river 

 and land on both sides for 2 miles, power can 

 now be furnished to large factories and plants 

 of various kinds. On July IvJ i-li-i-tric jiov. 

 transmitted from Folsom to Sacramento. In 

 1888 the Legislature authori/.-d the selection of 

 a site for a branch prison ; in 1H74 $175,000 was 

 appropriated for its construction, and Folsoui 

 prison was completed in 1882. 



so, let] of Pioneers. The annual report of 

 this societv shows the receipts for the 



neraJ fund as $904)95.62; disbursements, 

 $18jW4.:w. The relief fund ws d, $1,- 



715.93 cl tiring the year, making a total in this 

 fun.l of 627,216.86; of this, 6,910.40 wa^ >\\- 

 bnned. leaving a balance of $17,306.46, of which 

 67,806.46 is available for relief work during the 

 coming year. The total a>s.-t I of the society are 

 placed at $464.166.50; its liabilities amount to 

 $884,674.2:{. The number of members is 1,108, 

 of whom 733 are original pioneers. 



