APPENDIX. 463 



Tlie preceding table showsthenuiuber of white males, white 

 females, white persons, and persons of all colors, in each county 

 of California, as reported by the United States census for 1860. 



From this table, it appears that only 28 per cent., or about 

 one-fourth of the white inhabitants, are females. There may 

 be 100,000 white minors, 50,000 boys and 50,000 girls, in the 

 state. Subtract these figures from the totals of males and fe- 

 males, and w^e ascertain that there are 183,856 white men, and 

 48,149 white women, or 238,005 white adults of both sexes in 

 California. The white women number, then, only 20 per cent, 

 of the adult white population. There are four white men to 

 one white woman. If we subtract 48,149 from 183,856, we 

 ascertain that the white men have an excess of 135,707, as 

 compared with the white women. There are so many bache- 

 lors in the state — three white men out of four are unmarried. 

 These figures are full of significance. They tell much of the 

 social condition of California. They should serve as an adver- 

 tisement throughout the world, of the scarcity of, and demand 

 for women in California. All through the rich gold-producing 

 counties, four men out of five have no wives, and at least two 

 o!it of five would like to have wives, if they could get them. 

 These disconsolate bachelors are many of them poor, and un- 

 able to support famihes in luxury, but they might be good 

 husbands, and provide their wives with all the necessaries of 

 life. Let the old and young maids of Christendom take note 

 of this great fact; three-fifths of the adult white population 

 of California are men without wives. 



This disproportion between the sexes is greatest in the min- 

 ing counties, and least in the agricultural districts. Santa 

 Barbara has 42 per cent, of females; San Bernardino 40 per 

 cent.; Los Angeles and San Francisco, each 38 per cent.; So- 

 noma and Santa Clara, each 36 per cent. ; Alameda and Santa 

 Cruz, each 35 per cent. ; Contra Costa and Solano, each 34 ; 

 Sacramento, 32 ; San Mateo, 29 ; Yuba, El Dorado, and Shasta, 

 each 23 ; Tuolumne and Mariposa, each 21 ; Butte, 19 ; Xevada 

 and Calaveras, eafh 18; Siskiyou, 17; Sierra, 13; Plumas 



