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47,863 were engaged in agriculture, 76,112 in personal and 

 professional duties, 33,165 in trade and transportation, and 

 81,508 in mechanical and mining industries. 



The entire number of males and females is not reported in 

 any volume of the census yet published, but we have the 

 figures for those persons aged ten years or more, and among 

 those we find 283,740 males, and 146,704 females. We 

 know, however, that there were 184,000 children under six- 

 teen, in the State in 1870 ; and as among them the two sexes 

 were equally divided, it follows that there were, in 1870, 

 263,000 males, and 126,000 females over sixteen in the State, 

 or two to one. After deducting 48,000 Chinamen, we find 

 that there are eight males to five females among the whole 

 population over sixteen, and that 90,000 white men can find 

 no mates in the State. 



The native males number 199,421, including 64,203 between 

 five and eighteen years of age, 77,828 between eighteen and 

 forty-five, and 93,327 adults. The foreign males number 

 150,058, including 6,883 between five and eighteen, 117,107 

 between eighteen and forty-five, and 133,929 adults. 



Theue are 150,995 native females, and 59,973 foreign 

 females. 



21. Other Classes. There are 128,752 families in Cali- 

 fornia, averaging 4.35 persons each, and 126,307 dwellings, 

 averaging 4.44 persons each. The adult male citizens num- 

 ber 145,802, and 94,738 votes were cast at the presidential 

 election in 1872, showing that in that year 51,064 voters, 

 or more than 35 per cent., stayed away from the polls. The 

 proportion of voters who did not go to the polls was unusually 

 large in that year, the supposition being that at presidential 

 elections ordinarily about nine-tenths of the voters cast their 

 ballots. 



The paupers number 991, including 637 foreign and 354 

 native. 



The convicts in prison were 1,574, 906 of them foreign 

 and 668 native. The number convicted in the year was 1,107. 



