APPENDIX. 463 
The preceding table shows the number 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 186v. 
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 we 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 
out 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 families 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; Nevada 
and Calaveras, each 18; Siskiyou, 17; Sierra, 13; Plumas 
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