18 RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA. 



8 per cent. There was a loss of 28 per cent, in San Ber- 

 nardino ; 20 in Tulare ; and 10 in Tehama. The loss in San 

 Bernardino, and the smallness of the increase in San Diego, 

 are probably due mainly to the disappearance of Indians, of 

 whom 3,000 were reported for each county in 1860. 



The growth in the agricultural districts of the San Joaquin 

 Valley has been large. We put the following counties 

 together : 



COUNTIES. 1860. 1870. 



San Joaquin 9,435 21,064 



Stanislaus 2,245 6,510 



Merced 1,141 2,810 



Fresno 4,605 6,336 



Total 17,426 36,720 



Here is an increase in the district of more than 100 per 

 cent. 



There are 53 counties, of which 18 are mainly mining, and 

 35 agricultural and commercial. The total population of the 

 mining region is 105,314, or an average of 5,861 to the 

 county. The agricultural and commercial districts have 

 451,299 inhabitants, or an average of 14,031 to the county. 

 San Francisco has 27 per cent, of the inhabitants of the 

 State, or more than the entire population of the mining region. 

 Sacramento, Santa Clara, Alameda, San Joaquin, Sonoma, 

 and Nevada, are the next counties~in order, and together they 

 have about one-fourth of the population of the State, and 

 with San Francisco they have more than the remaining 46 

 counties. 



23. Cosmopolitanism. Not one in twenty among the 

 adult Californians to be met with in the larger towns is a na- 

 tive of the State, and nearly all those who occupy prominent 

 and influential positions in society and business have come 

 from distant homes. Every State in the Union, every country in 

 Europe, all the British Colonies in North America and Australa- 

 asia, all the countries of Spanish America, and many of the 



