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Counties. Votes. Chinamen. 



Mono 138 41 



Nevada 3,472 2,617 



Placer 2,255 2,401 



Plumes 792 908 



San Bernardino 509 16 



San Diego 873 71 



Shasta 821 574 



Sierra 1,300 809 



Siskiyou 1,372 1,439 



Stanislaus 1,130 305 



Trinity -652 1,095 



Tuolumne 1,536 1,511 



Yuba 2,015 2,324 



Total 25,567 22,760 



The number of votes cast at the last Presidential election 

 is probably within one- tenth of the total adult white males; 

 so that, if we allow 28,000 for the white men, we shall 

 have, with the Chinamen, about 50,000 men in these 

 counties. It will be observed that we have excluded 

 Los Angeles and Merced, which have a few gold mines, and 

 Inyo and Alpine, which work no mines save those of silver. 

 We have included San Bernardino and San Diego, in which 

 mining is one of the chief industries, and Stanislaus and Yuba, 

 in which, though the placers now yield little, they were once 

 important. 



Of the 50,000 men in the auriferous districts of California, 

 there are not 30,000 now engaged in gold mining. Some of 

 those counties which, fifteen years ago, were exclusively de- 

 voted to gold mining, are now predominantly agricultural. In 

 Siskiyou, Tuolumne, Shasta, and Plumas, one white man out 

 of two may work in a mine ; in El Dorado, Placer, and Cal- 

 averas, one in three ; in Kern, San Diego, and San Bernardino, 

 one in four ; in Yuba, Butte, and Stanislaus, one in live. If 

 we allow that 18,000, or four-fifths of the Chinamen, and 

 12,000, or nearly half of the white men, are miners and these 



