POPULATION IN MISSIONS AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. 369 



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MISSIONS AND THEIR POPULATION IN UPPER CALIFORNIA IN 1831. 



Names of the Jurisdictions, Missions, people of atj, classes and ages. 



avid Towns. 

 Presidio of S. Francisco . . . 

 Town of San Jose de Guadalupe . 

 Mission of S. Francisco Solano . 



g 3 I id. of S. Rafael 



id. of S. Francisco . . . 

 id. of Santa Clara .... 



id. of S. Jose 



id. of Santa Cruz .... 

 Presidio of Monterey . . . 

 Village of Branciforte .... 

 Mission of S. Juan Bautista , . 



id. of S. Carlos 



id. of Na. sa. de la Soledad 

 id. of S. Antonio .... 

 id. of S. Miguel .... 

 ^ id. of S. Luis Obispo . . . 

 Presidio of Sta. Barbara . . 

 Mission of La Purissima , . . 

 id. of Sta. Ines 



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id. of Sta. Barbara 

 id. of Buenaventura . . . 

 id. of S. Fernando . . . 

 [Town of la Reyna de los Angelos 

 Presidio of S. Diego .... 

 Mission of S. Gabriel .... 

 id. of S. Juan Capistrano 

 id. of S, Luis Rey , . . 

 id. of S. Diego 750 



Men. 



Women. 



Boys. 



Girls. 



Total. 



124 



85 



89 



73 



371 



166 



145 



103 



110 



524 



!<5o5 



242 



88 



90 



705 



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4Ub 



A 1 A 

 41U 



1U5 



106 



1027 



1 AC 



14b 



cn 

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13 



13 



237 



ID4 



Am 

 491 



CO 



bo 



C(\ 



60 



1371 



893 





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14^ 

 140 



1 707 



114 1 



222 



94 



30 



20 



366 



oil 



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11U 



Q7 



7HQ 



£0 



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1 7 



1 / 



i Qn 



4oU 



oOl 



oO 



71 



/ J. 



QQ7 



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W4 



7Q 



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41 



OQ£ 

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oi n 



4W 



Q1 

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OQ 

 40 



on 



4\) 



O.J4 



394 



209 



51 



17 



671 



349 



292 



46 



61 



748 



211 



103 



8 



7 



329 



167 



120 



162 



164 



613 



101 



91 8 



4tO 



47 



34 



4^0 



149 



x. L ±4 





89 



04 



vo 





374 



267 



51 



70 



762 



383 



283 



66 



59 



791 



249 



226 



177 



181 



833 



552 



421 



213 



202 



1388 



2951 











574 

 464 



• 191J 



683 



621 



5686 



1138 











750 



520 



162 



146 



1575 



1 Totals 10,272 7632 2623 2498 23,025 



Agriculture had always been most carelessly conducted. The 

 implements used in the fields were nearly the same as those intro- 

 duced by the earliest settlers. The mills were few and primitive ; 

 and although the same extent of ground yielded nearly three times 

 as much wheat as in England, and returned corn at the rate of one 

 hundred and fifty fold, yet nothing was cultivated that w r as not abso- 

 lutely needed for the maintenance of the missions and their imme- 

 diate neighborhoods. There was no commerce to carry off the 

 excess of production, and no enterprise to create a surplus for the 

 purposes of trade. 



At this epoch the whole cereal production of Upper California did 

 not exceed — 



63,000 bushels of wheat. 

 28,000 " of corn. 

 4,200 " of frijoles or brown beans. 

 2,800 " of garabanzos or peas. 

 18,500 " barley. 

 The Californians, of that period, seem however, to have particu- 

 larly delighted in the care of cattle. The idle, roving life of herds- 



1 Forbes 's California, p. 202. 



